I like trying to predict what each year will bring us in Educational Technology. Looking back over the topics I’ve chosen through the years this one blog post probably shows more than anything where I’m focusing my attention and passion with technology. Plus being a futurist is kind of fun…..you actually get to make it up. 🙂 Here are my […]
In November I learned a valuealbe lesson. My wife and I were getting ready to run a 12K race in Vancouver, WA. The weather forecast called for high 30s to low 40s and rain the day of the race. It’s the Pacific Northwest so rain is always likely. I packed running clothes that I thought would be right for the […]
Well it’s official my 2013 travel season is over. I’m 33 miles short of flying 250,000 miles. But let’s put this 249,967 miles into perspective. I traveled around the world 10 times at the equator I traveled to the moon and 11,067 miles back to earth And now for my top 10 ways you know you traveled almost 250k in […]
Felicia Sobhani emailed me the other day. I did a presentation at her school, International School Turin, last October. It’s one of my favorite presentations to do…the ones where I get to talk directly to students. Anyway…she shared with me her following TEDx talk from November. Have a watch:
This week I had the opportunity to do a talk at the ECIS IT Pre-Conference here in Amsterdam. I found it challenging to come up with a message to help drive a conversationĂ‚Â forwardĂ‚Â when you’re speaking to the committed. Usually my talks are aimedĂ‚Â at teachers who need a reason to use technology in their classroom not to those already understanding the […]
As many of you know I have been keeping an eye on what is happening in Africa when it comes to Internet connect and how it is and is going to radically change the landscape there. Africa just help the transform Africa Summit. There have been some great articles written on what was discussed at the summit. I thought I […]
How time flies as the miles pile up. I have just passed the halfway point of a crazy two months of traveling and presenting. Yes….From the end of September to the end of November I will have flown 70,000 miles and yes….all of it in economy (because I know you were wondering). It has been a tired, fun, exhausting, passionate […]
I am pretty excited to talk about the new redesigned site that we launched a few weeks ago now on the COETAIL (Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy) site. Head on over and take a look and see what you think. This has been a fun project to work on with our developer Foliovision. Websites have always been a […]
So Wednesday’s blog post about iPads has created a bit of a conversation. Not only on the blog but on Twitter as well. I have even had schools asking me to review what they are doing and give my opinion. Now…let’s be clear, any program that puts devices in every hand of every student is a great program. My hope […]
Gigaom had a great article this week on some of the push back that MOOCs and Coursera in particular are seeing from university professors. A couple quotes: Princeton professor Mitchell Duneier toldĂ‚Â The Chronicle of Higher EducationĂ‚Â Tuesday that he will no longer teach his class out of concerns that it could undermine public higher education. In April,Ă‚Â Amherst rejected a partnership with […]