My conversations with colleagues and parents sometimes get into what computer skills schools should teach students. The conversations are almost always contain this bit of dialogue.
“We need to have Microsoft Office on student computers?”
“Why?”
“Because they’ll need it when they get into the real world.”
Setting aside the fact that we have no [...]
Grand Unified Theory of N00bs…an incredible article on people who just don’t get basic computer concepts. This one’s important from a school district’s perspective (as in how the district interacts with the community). Additionally, part of the article very thoughtfully tackles why computer education in schools is terrible (for a bit more of [...]
From Arun Basil Lal…too good not to share.
How To Write An Awesome Blog Post View more presentations from Arun Basil Lal.
Fewer high school students take computer education classes…American high school students typically have a wide understanding of technology, but a very shallow comprehension of it as well. This bodes ill for our future (and how much do I wish I’d taken a computer programming class in high school).
This blog’s been quiet because my wife and I traveled to Colombia to adopt our 2 daughters, Monica and Kelly, and I haven’t had time for follow the tech/education news. But I’m now back at work and ready to contribute!
From A day at the River
With all the rumors and hype of Tablets being the Next Big Thing in technology, here’s a very fascinating video/commercial demonstrating how a tablet (or a smart phone?) could be used in the classroom.
A glimpse at the next step for the internet.
Sometime in the future I plan to get into the fine points of creating and using video for class (and peer) instruction. I’m still in the experimental stages, but have definitely been convinced of the handiness of some basic video editing software, a flip video, and the ever handy vimeo.com.
Personal geek hero of mine, [...]
6 Practical Reasons why Art Ed is Important…written by my personal brain/education hero, Dan Willingham.
Horses out the barn…in which Doug Johnson lists trends in education that are becoming reality. Very well said.
More Honor Students are going to Community Colleges…because you can save a boatload of money. Another example [...]
Great presentation that summarizes much of the information I’m finding with eLearning. From Cathy Moore’s site “making change“.
How to save the world with elearning scenarios View more documents from Cathy Moore.
Who owns the lesson plans?…a NY Times article that details the budding market place of teacher lesson plans. Hmmm, wonder how much I could get for my American History PPTs?
Robert Cringley joins other prophets in predicting the downfall of post-2ndary education…great quote: “What drives the education industry is producing degrees [...]
Seth Godin features a post on how to loose an argument. Personal favorites:
Forget the pitfalls of Godwin’s law. Any time you mention Hitler or even Communist China or Bill O’Reilly, you’ve lost. Bring up the slippery slope. Actually, the slope isn’t that slippery. People don’t end up marrying dogs, becoming cannibals or [...]
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