"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Earlier in the month, Jared Horvath posted a short article by Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch entitled “The EdTech Revolution Has Failed.” In this post, they noted that the early 2010s saw a digital revolution in Western schools with the widespread adoption of 1-to-1 devices like laptops, tablets, and iPads. However, they felt that this… Read more A History Lesson
This week, Harold Jarche posted about his two decades of blogging and the four questions raised by Bryan Cantrill and Cynthia Dunlop: What blog entry was I most proud of? Which one was most difficult to write? What impact of blogging have I found surprising? What advice would I have for those getting started with… Read more Four Blogging Questions
Back in 2008, in the early days of my blog posting, I wrote a post entitled “The Gold Standard for eLearning.” I had just returned from the ITC 2008 conference, and was energized by the key note presentation by Patrica McGee, Associate Professor of IT and Program Coordinator for Adult and Higher Education at the… Read more Is AI the New Gold Standard?
Back in 2008, as I was starting to blog, one of my first posts took exception with the term “digital native.” I noted “I often try to stretch my students or fellow faculty to try out Web 2.0 tools when they feel that they are doing a perfectly adequate job teaching in a non-wired world.… Read more From an Evolving Digital Native
One of my granddaughters and I have had a running joke for the past decade around the word “retirement”. As a pre-teen, she struggled with the idea that I could “retire” from a full-time job but keep teaching…and then retire from teaching but keep advising doctoral students, and so on. Well, I guess the joke… Read more What Is Retirement?
Tomorrow, I once again will be teaching the Northeastern course EDU-6323 – Technology as a Medium for Learning. This course has gone through a number of changes since I first taught it in 2015. At it’s core is the GRAD-602 course that Jeff Nugent and I taught back at VCU in the last decade. I… Read more The Blogs I Read Now
We are starting the second week of an 8-week online graduate course for Northeastern University titled Technology as a Medium for Learning (EDU-6323). During this course, the middle six weeks explore different aspects of edtech, while we read and reflect on the learning science lessons embedded in Michelle Miller’s book Minds Online. This week, the… Read more Two Questions to My Class
Many have been bemoaning the final loss of the Martian Opportunity Rover, which lost contact last June and was officially declared dead this past week after 15 years roving the Martian landscape. One could say that we lost Opportunity…but it really is a story of what we gained. It was designed for a three month… Read more Opportunity Lost
Back in 2014, I did a 30-day blog challenge with Enoch Hale that was pretty intense…but barrels of fun! Five days a week for 6 weeks, Enoch and I posted around the prompt: “I want to pose an open challenge: Post an out-of-the-box question about teaching and learning each day for 30 days.” While fun,… Read more A Reasonable Challenge
Last year, I was asked to develop a new course for a new Certificate in Catholic School Leadership. My course is the middle course in a three-course program, and the pilot group started my course this week. Given that the course focuses on technology, communication, and school improvement, I decided to have my students blog… Read more New Class New Perspectives