Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Ever read an email and been hurt by something in the message only to find out the writer didn’t have that intent? Or discovered that your message had unintended negative effects? Lena Winerman of the APA Monitor has a column out on the research of psychologist Justin Kruger and Nicholas…

The publication of a cartoon of the prophet Mohammad in a Danish newspaper last fall has recently received much attention, to say the least. Nicholas Carr has a blog post that makes good reading from a leadership point of view. Carr compares Google’s image search (where the cartoon shows up)…

Where can you find good images? Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen asks and answers this question. Fabulous shortlist of image sources from one of the presentation professionals. If you ever have to design a slideshow, don’t ever use the stock pics in your software again!…

David Warlick over at Techlearning blog published a provocative piece entitled A Letter from the Principal. David lays out a dire picture of a disconnect he sees between the current teach-to-the-NCLB goals of schools and what children need now in order to be citizens in the near future. What makes…

The University of California Santa Cruz has published a press release describing the results of a study conducted by Robert Fairlie, associate professor of economics at UCSC. Analyzing data from the Computer and Internet Use Supplement to the October 2003 Current Population Survey (CPS), Fairlie concluded that the digital divide…

The Basel Action Network has released a report that exposes the ugly underbelly of what is thought to be an escalating global trade in toxic, obsolete, discarded computers and other e-scrap collected in North America and Europe and sent to developing countries by waste brokers and so-called recyclers. Their site…

The good folks at 37signals announced back on Nov. 18 that the basic level of their Basecamp web-based project management product will be free to teachers :If you are using Basecamp in an educational setting (k-12, college, or special education) drop us a line and we’ll comp a Basic level…

While the $100 laptop certainly has captured my imagination, it isn’t intended for the entire world, just the children (that’s what the C in OLPC stands for). About a week before OLPC’s debut in Tunis, Nicholas Carr blogged about Ndiyo which innovates from an entirely different perspective:Instead of starting with…

I hope you’re not getting tired of the coverage of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative here on the STL Blog. It isn’t anything compared to the coverage the OLPC is planning. Literally. Andy Carvin has an interview with Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen, Chief Technology Officer for OLPC. While…

Dave Cormier of the University of Prince Edward Island and a host for the Ed Tech Talk Show webcast was interviewed by J.K. Valenza of the Philadelphia Inquirer in an article published Jan. 8. Dave’s top 10 are, in ascending order of importance: Blackboard’s takeover of WebCT Moodle Web 2.0…

Last week was the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). This week was MacWorld. These two events comprise the largest exposition of electronic wonders in the world. Something for everyone (if you can afford it) presented with all the glitz and glam only Las Vegas and Apple can provide. Attendance was in…

The $100 Laptop web site now has a list of FAQs. Responses are from Nicholas Negroponte, founding chairman of MITs Media Lab. Two samples: Why do children in developing nations need laptops?Laptops are both a window and a tool: a window into the world and a tool with which to…

Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat is all about what is happening now that the digital revolution has made it possible to work instantaneously with people on the other side of the world. One of these possibilities is posted at Wired Newsand describesthe link between 12-year-old Princeton in Glenview,…