tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30181348980588834372023-06-20T23:54:14.673-04:00Educational Turning PointThe Internet is the defining technology of this generation yet our schools continue to follow the text book teacher driven model of education. We are at an educational turning point where our education system must change to remain relevant and viable.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00733015479790975191noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018134898058883437.post-73504624097801451242011-11-06T08:27:00.004-05:002011-11-06T10:10:43.047-05:00Digital Writing Pads: The Future of Classroom Technology?How many of you have heard of Digital Tablets? I'm referring to digital writing tablets that are LCD based writing tools not Tablet computers. The technology has two primary stand alone forms (like Beta and VHS) at this time: 1) Pressure sensitive LCD which allows you to write directly onto the pad with a stylus and 2) Products that capture (usually to PDF) what is written with pen on paper Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00733015479790975191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018134898058883437.post-482010078560989682011-10-25T08:36:00.004-04:002011-10-25T20:13:52.351-04:00Helping Children with Autism via iPad Apps...What does this mean for ALL children?I rarely watch televised news programs because it is just easier to visit the website then pick and choose to watch what interests me. On Sunday, while skimming through a DVR recorded event that was postponed due to a football game, I stopped and watched a news program on 60 Minutes.The story involved the use of an iPad as an outlet of communication for some children diagnosed with Autism. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00733015479790975191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018134898058883437.post-55843009759328415652011-10-23T15:01:00.003-04:002011-10-23T16:26:23.714-04:00Digital Natives and Immigrants. Hogwash!!!I know this is not the first time you have heard this opinion expressed by me but...The existence of the Digital Native is a myth. That's right, they don't exist. This has been my opinion since I was first exposed to the term nearly three years past and current research is backing up my belief.Much like the debunking of multitasking, the belief that Millennials are somehow inherently better at Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00733015479790975191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018134898058883437.post-33400011645489508922011-10-15T08:56:00.005-04:002011-10-19T12:24:06.487-04:00Self-efficacy for Technology Use: No Kidding!Recently, a growing body of research has focused on self-efficacy as a factor that impacts teacher willingness to integrate new forms of technology into their classroom. I don't see how this was a surprise or even particularly research worth. I'm not belittling the research or stating that it didn't provide information but technology is just another "new" item for teachers. Previous research Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00733015479790975191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018134898058883437.post-53975208336015029922011-10-12T08:05:00.001-04:002011-10-15T09:54:48.634-04:00Facebook not detrimental to GPAI just read No, Facebook is not ruining your grades followed through a link via MindShift and thought it a very relevant read in preparation for one of our book discussions for Saturday. The article summarized recent studies that found students, whom average 106 minutes a day on Facebook, suffer an average .12 GPA loss for each 93 additional minutes spent interacting with social media. So if Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00733015479790975191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018134898058883437.post-33568080205695142492011-10-11T14:21:00.000-04:002011-10-11T21:47:02.533-04:00Overcoming Twin Barriers to Using Ed TechWhen taken to their root, arguments against incorporating technology into the public education system often can be expressed as one of two barriers: 1) there is not enough research data to prove the effectiveness of technology as an education tool and 2) the cost is too high. Accordingly, when countering these arguments, technology enthusiasts offer two standard rebuttals: 1) but we KNOW it Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00733015479790975191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018134898058883437.post-44229540476329465962011-10-09T15:58:00.002-04:002011-10-28T15:13:18.845-04:00The Means to Ending Innovation. Start When They Are Young.Does it seem to anyone else that we are in an innovation wasteland? Even our movies have become a list of retreads from the 70's and 80's. Innovation Starvation, by Neal Stephenson. explores potential reasons for why innovation and invention seem to have reached a level of stagnation. One interesting idea, though not the one I wish to write, is to blame Science Fiction writers who have ceasedAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00733015479790975191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018134898058883437.post-60708984020359384212011-10-09T10:42:00.001-04:002011-10-15T09:50:01.070-04:00Digital Citizenship: Some points and reflectionsThis week I read Digital Citizenship in Schools by Mike Ribble and Gerald Bailey. The authors provide a frame work for teachers to successfully design, implement, and provide instruction for students and professional development for teachers but, although parental and community participation are mentioned, the authors do not provide insight on how to engage and educate the school community Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00733015479790975191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018134898058883437.post-60630518008149003692011-09-30T08:42:00.000-04:002011-10-01T13:04:23.671-04:00High speed Internet as a human rightI recently read a post published by Nick Sauers via 1 to 1 schools that strongly favored making access to high-speed Internet a "human" right. Nick indicated that the United Nations Human Rights Council has come down firmly on the pro side of the debate by declaring that access to the Internet is a "fundamental human right" in a brief published following their seventeenth session in May, 2011. 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