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Category Archives: Educational Technology
What if your school blew up?: The Little Becky approach to school reform
One of the most debilitating aspects of today’s educational environment is the fear of failure. No, I am not talking about students, I am talking about teachers and administrators. There is a constant fear of losing jobs, funding, the chance … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative Interaction, Educational Technology, Real Ed Tech Solutions, School Change, Web 2.0
Tagged del.icio.us, Digg, Diigo, education, Educational Technology, Hoover_Institute, innovation, Innovation3, ISU, learning, learning_architecture, McLeod, MIT, MSU, Negroponte, Ning, OLPC, OMAET, Pepperdine, Peters, Postrel, Pownce, reform, Twitter, UStream, web2.0, YouTube, Zhao
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The EdTech Lament
Sitting at Beans ‘n Cream having my morning tea and a tweet came through the stream . . . @mrplough07 linked to a new blog entry decrying his experience in a class he is taking as part of his EdTech … Continue reading
Freshman Year 2.0: Introduction
I have been re-reading the book Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins and it is as eye-opening the second time through as it was the first. I am struck by a concept that seems to keep coming back to forefront of … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative Interaction, Educational Leadership, Educational Technology, Higher Ed, School Change, Web 2.0
Tagged Abilene Christian University, ACU, Bustillos, Convergance Culture, education, Henry Jenkins, iPhone, Laporte, learning architectures, Morrisett, re-imagining education, reform, Technologies of Freedom, textbook, ThisWeekInTech, TWiT, Twitter
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Redefining School in the Age of Web 2.0: Update
Well, it’s been a few days since I began this process of explaining an idea of how a higher ed learning environment might look if it allowed itself to be influenced by the latest in technological hardware and facilitatory web … Continue reading
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Tagged education, Educational Technology, iPhone, iPod, Kindle, laptop, reform, technology, web2.0
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Redefining School in the age of Web 2.0
“The situated nature of learning, remembering, and understanding is a central fact. It may appear obvious that human minds develop in social situations, and that they use the tools and representational media that culture provides to support, extend, and reorganize … Continue reading
Why Technology Doesn’t Change Education
In a great editorial in the July/August issue of Edutopia, James Daly brings home a wonderfully salient point, “The new reality is that the public-education system is no longer the only, or the paramount, place where we go to learn.” … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technology, Higher Ed, Real Ed Tech Solutions, Responsible cyber-behavior, Web 2.0
Tagged blog, Daly, digital citizenship, digital literacy, Downes, EdTech, education, educational change, Educational Technology, Edutopia, flat world, Freedman, Friedman, GLEF, Jack Welch, learning, Nazemi, Peters, Roanoke College, Senge, social networks, technology, Tom Peters, web2.0, Welch, WordPress, YouTube
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Open access and Web 2.0 tools
I recently read an interesting review (at EducationPR) of the book, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship by John Willinsky. The book discusses the idea of “open access” and the effect it will have … Continue reading
