"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
In my last post, I noted that I would be interested to see how my list compared to Jane’s 2024 list. Since 2007, Jane Hart has been compiling an annual Top Tools for Learning List from the results of an open survey. As she notes, these Top Tools lists “…now constitute an important and interesting… Read more Top Tools for Learning 2024
One of my favorite lists over the years has been Jane Hart’s wonderful curation of Top Tools in Learning. I last submitted my annual list in 2021, before my cancer returned and I retired from teaching. In fact, in September 2021, I reflected on my submission while discussing the 15th annual Top Tools for Learning… Read more Another Look at Tools
My wife and I were house sitting and dog sitting the past two weeks, so a break from blogging. However, today I read an excellent post by Dr. Philippa Hardman entitled “The Post-AI Instructional Designer.” Several points struck me. Hardman explored the evolving relationship between instructional designers (IDs) and AI, contrasting two models: the Delegation… Read more Nice Take on Post AI Instructional Designer
Gary Ackerman had a post this week in which he took another look at his understanding of TCPK, introduced by Mishra and Koehler in 2006. This framework explored the combinations of technological, pedagogical and content knowledge, with the sweet spot being TCPK – Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. I have been blogging about TCPK since 2008,… Read more TCPK and GenAI
A few weeks ago, Educause published an article by Dale Pike, Brooke McGowin, Aaron Bond, Larry Cox II and Daron Williams entitled “Framing Generative AI in Education with the GenAI Intent and Orientation Model.” The article discussed the potential of generative AI (GenAI) in education and introduced the above framework to help understand and implement… Read more Enhancing the GenAI Intent and Orientation Model
I was visiting family last week (and so no blogging), and a LOT has happened while I was gone – Bryan Alexander is already remarking on the departure of Biden from the presidential race… I try and stay non-political in this blog, so I will not dive in to this issue. My focus in this… Read more Humanism and AI
It has been five years since Mary Meeker released a BOND report on technology. I had frequently used her reports over the years in both my Masters and doctorate technology courses, and had previously blogged about several of her Internet status reports, first in 2012, then in 2017, and finally in 2018. In that last… Read more New Meeker Report on AI
Now that I am retired, it has been interesting to look back at my early 2008 posts. One post was “Only Thing To Fear” where I discussed the challenge of teaching a Masters class in edtech when all of my students worked in schools that blocked access to many of the websites we were exploring…including… Read more Fear of AI
Over the years, I have returned several times to the concept of “truth”. In 2008, I blogged about “Truth 2.0,” where I explored the challenges of determining truth and reliability of information in the age of Web 2.0, prompted by Monica Hesse’s Washington Post article entitled “Truth: Can You Handle It?”. I discussed how students… Read more Truth 4.0
Seven years ago, I was teaching ILD-831 – Leadership and Technology- for Creighton University. This was an elective in their Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Leadership…and one of my favorite courses! I posted a blog that noted that Jane Hart’s 2016 image for her update on Top Learning Tools captured the essence of my course in a… Read more My Old Tech Course is Old