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I love how things tie together sometimes — without any intention on my part, connections just randomly appear while I browse. Yesterday morning, I watched the following video and immediately bookmarked it as one of my new favourites. Then, this morning, I stumbled across a NY Times article: Growing Up Digital: Wired for . . . → Read More: Is distraction really the issue?  “Collaborate or Die!” This is one of the chapter titles in Curtis J. Bonk’s recent book The World is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education. (The book is fabulous by the way!) Well … I believe we have some work to do out there. Before going back to school last year, I spent most . . . → Read More: We all share = We all learn “Educators, Technology and 21st Century Skills: Dispelling Five Myths – A Study on the Connection Between K–12 Technology Use and 21st Century Skills” — a report just released by Walden University — offers up some interesting statistics based on a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. educators. First, it provides a summary of the five myths the . . . → Read More: New Research Report on Educators, Technology, and 21st Century Skills Over the last few days, I’ve been watching the flurry of Twitter posts coming out of the New Literacies Institute conference that’s been taking place in Massachusetts this week. Quite frankly, I’ve had moments when the amount of information (and the number of browser windows open on my computer) has been pretty overwhelming, so . . . → Read More: New Literacies: What’s “new”, what’s “literacies”? Image source: Francis Anderson In many articles I’ve been reading around education & technology, I’ve noticed that the term ‘digital native’ is becoming rather commonplace and its meaning is assumed to be understood. But, when we use that term to define our students, what exactly are we saying about them? Has it become generally . . . → Read More: Should we assume that ‘digital natives’ are ‘digital literates’? (Image from the Algebra Learning Networking website) I attended a webinar this week entitled “Perspectives on Blogging”, moderated by two teachers who use this technology in their classroom — Hattie Deraps and Jake Bogar. Jake keeps the blogs on an internal server, while Hattie has her students writing to the outside world using Blogger. The impact . . . → Read More: Blogging students are writing students |
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