“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They . . . → Read More: Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
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EdTech 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 EdTech 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 EdTech 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 Learning This is a great talk given by Robert Duke on leveraging learning theory to design more effective instruction. He makes some interesting points on creating enduring understanding in our students, and how to shift from a focus on teaching to one of learning. He speaks about teaching the higher-order skills initially in lieu of teaching . . . → Read More: Why students don’t learn what we think we teach EdTech 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 Learning Especially if you have the seat 36A on a MD-88 – because you will end up sitting next to this: Additionally, make sure to log in to the online seat selection site at your airline at the first available moment you can to move yourself around. I didn’t mind the flight too much, except for . . . → Read More: Advice – bring earplugs Applications I was honored to be highlighted by TechSmith as one of their 20 Educators to Watch in 2011. I include screencasting as one of the tools that educators should always be thinking about and incorporating into their teaching and learning practice. Here are just a couple of reasons why (but there are many more): 1 . . . → Read More: An honor! 20 Educators to Watch EdTech 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? Learning Watch live video from umwnewmedia on Justin.tv Posted via email from Houtman’s Thoughts on Education and Technology . . . → Read More: Faculty Academy Opening & Michael Wesch Keynote |
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