Blog Juice for Educational Technology

It has become clear to me that I need to be more explicit about my educational philosophy and, more importantly, the people and organizations that support and promote those philosophies. Not from some librarian-damaged concern about couching my beliefs as “biases,” but to promote the folks doing work I believe in. Also to avoid the tendency for us ed-tech people…

I have been involved in educational technology since 1981. The years have been characterized by long steady periods of learning and development. These times have been like riding a long a plateau with little significant change. However, these years have been accented by dramatic lunges upward, as a discover something new that […]

Just lately I have been thinking of what we need to teach in subject English and whether, and why, English should be a discrete subject (notwithstanding Leigh Blackall’s question via Wara of whether there need to be subjects at all; this reminds me o…

Now in its 23rd year, Technology Learning Awards of Excellence.

High-tech accoutrements such as podcasts, clickers, and digital cameras are changing the traditional MBA experience. Arv Malhotra, an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business Schoo

Scarecrows and starry nights, mermen and shadowy felines, power poles, snowy peaks, best friends, cityscapes, Katrina damage, and scarlet sunsets: This year’s 2,500-plus student digital photo entries truly reflected creativity, imagination, and artistic p

Inquirium’s Inqblot blog points us to the rather cool-looking Showing Evidence web application they wrote for the Intel Education site. Regarding the terms of use, the Intel site states: The tool and related resources are available for free, from any computer that is connected to the Internet. Students may work on their claims and evidence at home or at school,…

SAN DIEGO, California In vibrant colors painted on a canvas of silk, one banner depicts a Central American flute player against a background of lush mangoes.

A report on distance education at South Dakota’s public universities shows continued growth in the popularity of taking courses through the Internet or by other forms of distance delivery. A report presented to the South Dakota Board of Regents shows tota

Students at R.A. Hubbard may never give apples to their advanced placement teachers. The closest they will ever come to an expression of appreciation is a smile enlarged by a zoom lens. Students working toward advanced diplomas will begin a long-distance

When Mote Marine Laboratory SeaTrek educator Kasey Gaylord mimicked a child’s hand movement on television, every one of the 52 kids in attendance gasped. The reason? Gaylord was talking to a group of children via television. She was actually in a differen

I’ve had a number of requests to share the slides from my recent Podcasting 101 presentation at the TIES Conference. Here they are in PDF format (3.7 MB). As I posted previously, there isn’t much text on the slides so they probably won’t make much sense on their own. Thanks to Cory Vandenberghe from the […]

I just posted my 50th podcast episode, a look at the future of education. As part of the program, I included some recordings that I did at three conferences and workshops in New York and Texas this month. I asked educators to pretend that they were walking into their classrooms in 2015, ten […]