Category: disruptive-technology
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Learning about the amazing iOS Square Credit Card solution
On October 28, 2010, I attended and presented at OpenBeta5 at the Co-Working Collaborative (OKC CoCo) in Oklahoma City. Prior to the start of the lightning talks, David Glover took a few minutes to explain and demonstrate the amazing SQUARE device which permits anyone with an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch to take credit card…
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Utilizing Social Media (in schools and for citizen journalism) #collab21
These are my notes from Carl Anderson‘s (@anderscj on Twitter) presentation “Utilizing Social Media” at the “Co-teaching and Collaboration Conference” in St Paul, Minnesota on 12 Nov 2010, at the School Community of Excellence. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. IF YOU ARE NOT FOLLOWING CARL YET ON TWITTER, DO IT NOW. HE’S…
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English learners in the digital age: natives, immigrants or outsiders #collab21
These are my notes from Ruslana Westerlund‘s keynote presentation “English learners in the digital age: natives, immigrants or outsiders” at the “Co-teaching and Collaboration Conference” in St Paul, Minnesota on 12 Nov 2010, at the School Community of Excellence. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Ruslana’s website: http://ellbillofrights.com Facebook: Educators of English Learners…
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Platform agnostic developers will help redefine print and literacy
Great quotation from yesterday’s Mashable article, “The Reinvention of Print, One App at a Time.” The final advantage is that because the app is built on an HTML5 base, the process of taking the app from the iPad to another platform is going to be less complicated. Portability and platform agnosticism is going to become…
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Make free phone calls to land lines (US and Canada) from GMail #gct
If you haven’t sipped the Google Kool Aid and pronounced it GOOD in the context of email yet, here’s yet another compelling reason to do so: Gmail now offers FREE phone calls from within the Gmail interface to all phone numbers in the U.S. and Canada. That’s right: NOT just free cell phone to cell…
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Cell Phone Computers or Mobile Learning Devices (MLDs)
Kudos to CNN for it’s published video today, “Texting to Learn.” Unlike a lot of the mainstream media coverage we see and hear about cell phones in schools, this segment does a good job providing a fairly balanced viewpoint on the struggles as well as opportunities available with cell phone technologies in school. Students in…
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Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship Presentations for Students, Parents and Teachers
At the request of several school leaders in Oklahoma and Texas, I’m putting together a series of updated presentations this year for K-12 students as well as parents and teachers focusing on Internet safety, privacy, cyberbullying issues, digital footprints and digital citizenship. (Contact info is available on my “speaking” page.) photo credit: cotaro70s Using video…
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Legal Fight Over Publicly funded Charter Schools and Online Education in Oklahoma
Charter schools are controversial, as is the provision of publicly-funded online education options for K-12 students nationwide. In her outstanding book, “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,” Diane Ravitch explains how the charter school movement has become (for SOME individuals) a rallying cry and political objective replacing the call for educational…