From Venturebeat.com The girl, 17, had been helping her grandmother count the 72-year-old woman’s personal savings. Apparently wishing to impress her friends and the world at large, the teen snapped a picture of the cash and uploaded it to Facebook. Within hours, masked robbers showed up at the girl’s own house with a knife and a club, breaking in and […]
Excited to see the Learning 2.012 conference is filling up fast. The conference that I helped to start back in 2007 continues to explore the meaning of what it means to be a modern day conference. Every year the committee plays with different formats and different ways to get participants involved in the learning process. The one thing this conference […]
A teacher brought this contest ran by the New York Times to my attention the other day as they were starting to prepare for teaching summer school. This is the third time the New York Times has ran the contest where they ask students to submit 350 word responses to articles they read on the site or in the newspaper. […]
OK….I’ll admit over the past couple of months I’ve been hard on primary teachers on this blog. I have talked about my struggles with using technology with the younger students and how I felt we should be limiting their screen time to really good uses of technology. Uses that don’t include iPads as flashcard and game replacement devices. cover of […]
This past weekend I flew to Vietnam to spend two days with the Senior Management Team (SMT) of the British International School of Vietnam (BISVietnam). A two day retreat that focused on a future with technology and a 1:1 program. There are so many different ways to go 1:1 and in my opinion no one right way to do it. […]
This past weekend I made my 9th and final flight to Taipei where 25 educators from Taipei American School (TAS) wrapped up their final course, projects and presentations for the COETAIL program. The COETAIL Program or Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy, is a 5 course 15 graduate credit program started by Kim Cofino and I in 2009. […]
It seems like forever since I’ve sat down and blogged…..and yet at the same time it seems I spend all day blogging. Between school, COETAIL, and students I’m spending more time then ever in WordPress. But tonight I’m closing everything else to reflect on some articles lately that I can’t get out of my head. Some rights reserved by nojhan […]
Last week I gave a short presentation to the High School student body here at ISB. I talked a bit about what I was going to say here. From the time I wrote that post (a good reflection for me) to last Tuesday when I actually gave the presentation I kept coming back to this idea of attention and asking […]
(Stories from my side of the field parts 1, 2, 3, 4) Doesn’t he know better than to give a test on game day? As if the professor actually cares that there’s a baseball game today. Man on first, lefty at the plate……..Why is Chief Seattle’s speech in 1854 so significant? Focus….you have to finish this test! It is always hard to […]
Some rights reserved by Brice Reul In two weeks time I have to give a presentation to our high school student body. I always struggle the most with what to talk to them about…..them being kids in general. I’ve got about 15 minutes to inspire them to use technology in ways that really matter.