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In this talk by Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab, the idea of learning by ones self is explored. From the Solving for X site, this background on the talk is provided: Few people question that education is the most critical problem for to solve – both in the developed and in the . . . → Read More: The worlds biggest problem–education I came across an interesting IOS application called Nearpod. This platform is a bit unique, in that I’ve not seen anything that aggregates presentation, feedback, collaboration and assessment tools into one application. Here are a couple of video clips explaining what it is and does.
Nearpod Education: Pilot program Fall 2011 from Nearpod on . . . → Read More: Collaborative learning with Nearpod I’ve used and taught with quite a few Learning Management Systems (LMS) over the years – WebCT, Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai, Angel, Canvas – and wonder why I’ve not yet seen a workflow model that allows the facilitator of the course to do some sort of round-trip grading without having to download documents and other artifacts . . . → Read More: LMS Workflow–Does this exist? The three weeks before school starts has me as busy as a one-legged man at a butt kicking contest. It’s been one of my favorite times of the year – presentation season. I’ve had the honor of speaking with hundreds of educators on all things educational technology and the classroom management necessary to makes things . . . → Read More: Things To Bring When I first started in my job as an Education Technology Consultant, I thought I’d be out of a job after a couple of years because of what I thought I saw with regard to students using technology in their daily lives. Naively I thought that kids would be pulling all their tech knowledge upward . . . → Read More: Technology in the classroom – thoughts on the 2011 CDW-G Classroom Report At the ISTE 2011 Conference in Philadelphia, I sat down with eSchoolnews TV and did an interview about how important I feel it is for teacher to both have a place for their stuff (ATNAPFTS*) and create screencasts of key portions of their classroom content. The clip is here: http://bit.ly/q4aOWq
*All Teachers Need A . . . → Read More: eSchoolNews – Interview with someone you know All I can say so far is – DANG! ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia is just packed with great energy, ideas and educators from all over the world. I’ve attended a couple of sessions on Project Based Learning and TPCK and it’s just 9AM on Monday. It’s so very hard to describe how enormous this place . . . → Read More: ISTE 2011 – Philadelphia photo © 2006 Paul Wicks | more info (via: Wylio) I’m glad that Wil Richardson’s post, “The UnCommon Core“, appeared on my radar this morning. My primary background as an educator is in Career and Technical Education (CTE) and I was fortunate that the rigid teach to the test pressures were not present in our . . . → Read More: Just where are we going in education? I think I came up with a new job title on the drive in: Technology Therapist.
Thanks to Savage CHickens – http://www.savagechickens.com/2010/06/abacus.html In thinking about what I do, it’s an apt description. I spend a lot of time helping teachers understand how to use technology in their teaching and learning – much of which is . . . → Read More: New job title – Technology Therapist This is from the “I wish I knew about this yesterday” file. I stumbled upon the CloudMagic plug-in for Chrome and it’s almost a shame that it’s not already built into or implemented into the ‘Google Operating System’. Instead of a long post on the fantastic integrated search capibilities and what it does, watch . . . → Read More: CloudMagic is… magic for finding stuff in your cloud-based accounts |
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