Blog Juice for Educational Technology

I’m writing this post from the airplane on the way back from the Administrators Technology Academy in Jackson, TN. (Though I’m posting it from the comfort of my recliner at home.) It’s an annual event the draws school administrators from around western Tennessee for a day of learning about educational technology. I was lucky enough […]

In ASC Online, Anita writes:
Trying to teach about metadata and cataloging is not the easiest thing in the world especially if the channels of communication/dissemination are limited to online text. Blog Juice for Educational Technology - one of the RSS feed aggregators Joe Schwoebel runs (another one is Syndication for Librarians) - is currently posting […]

In this post, David Warlick poses the question:
“How might we use tagging to form specified conversations among specified audiences such that the conversation can adapt to changes in conditions — so that the conversation can grow beyond the group when needed and close down to the group when appropriate?”
It’s a challenging question if considered […]

I got to record and produce a podcast interview with Ray Kurzweil this afternoon. One of his main points was that most people don’t appreciate the exponential nature of technological advancement. Most change appears linear in the near term, but the linear model breaks down once the timeframe gets out beyond a few years. This […]

Ben from Inquirium has a thoughtful comment and post following up on my little rant on Intel’s Showing Evidence application. From Ben’s comment: Even if Intel did release ALL of the code as open source, including the Showing Evidence Flash code as well as the Microsoft Windows Server code that runs the back-end, you would still need someone with deep…

I posted about Flock on my regular blog a little over a month ago and wondered if it would be the first Web 2.0 browser. I downloaded the first pre-alpha-developer release yesterday after getting an email about it and so far it’s looking pretty interesting. This is definitely not a release for the faint of heart—it crashes early and often—but…

Stephen Downes has a link to a post by John Hagel III titled “From Push to Pull,” which leads to a longer article on the topic free registration required) written with John Seely Brown, and to an even longer .pdf opening draft of a book on the topic, all of which has has me tingling. (Remember, I don’t have much…

Whew. It’s been a while since I’ve gotten in here. The beginning of school has been busier than expected, but things have finally started to settle down. Time to give Tom a break! One of the reasons I’ve been busy is that our Tablet PC pilot keeps rolling along, and we’ve been collecting some regular reflections from our teachers that…

Let’s be clear from the outset that the hard part is not getting the idea of creating a $100 laptop for students, nor is coming up with a nice design on paper. Obviously the hard part is getting the thing manufactured and into children’s hands on time and at your projected price point. Nonetheless, we should all be pleased with…

If I’m going to make snarky posts about the lack of authoritative voices in the education blogosphere, I need to also fly the flag when established leaders start to take a more active role. Anne points out that the long-haired hippies at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development have set up a blog for their upcoming conference on teaching…

O’Reilly editor and blogger Kendall Clark praises the “primitive computing” joys of his AlphaSmart Neo: I’m bored by hardware and a bit cheap about it, too. All of which makes the fact that I’ve fallen in love with a new box (and a new kind of box) all the more curious. I’m talking about my new Neo by AlphaSmart, upon…

Things have been a bit quiet on this site lately (I’m been completely re-writing the SchoolTool website, Will’s rolling out Tablet PC’s, Tim Wilson’s launching a 1-to-1 laptop initiative and podcasting like a maniac and everyone else is generally starting up the school year) but in the meantime, it is pretty clear that the K-12 (not just ed-tech) blogosphere is…

BoingBoing: Smart Internet 2010 (pdf) is an ambitious, 170-page report on the future of the Internet commissioned by the Australian government. It covers a lot of ground (much of it likely familiar to you if you’re a regular BB reader), aimed at a general audience (e.g., net-clueless regulators). The most interesting thing in this report is the four schools of…