"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
It has been an interesting week. Via asynchronous discussions, I have been talking with my graduate students (all K-12 teachers) about the relevance of our Web 2.0 course for an Ed Admin program for future school administrators. Their assignment this week was to review Will Richardson’s post “URGENT: 21st Century Skills for Educators (and Others)… Read more Tech Savvy Students
Tom Peters has stated many times in his presentations that we should not “benchmark” our performance – base our performance off good past practices, but rather we should “futuremark” – be the future others will wish to benchmark. I was thinking about that this week as I conceptualized this coming summer’s faculty institute. Our Center… Read more Futuremark
Hello again from the Instructional Technology Council’s eLearning 2008 Conference. It was a full day today and I have already blogged about Myk Garn’s keynote this morning…which set the pace for an instructive day. The first presentation I attended was “fun” but fell flat for reasons I will discuss below. The other three were insightful… Read more Three Stellar Presentations and One Dud
Ken Rockwell, talking about photography, said, “Maybe because it’s entirely an artist’s eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.” An artist’s eye, patience, and skill… There have been some interesting blog posts this past week on tools. I was reading Geeky Mom last night and she noted: “Most of the… Read more An Instructional Technologist’s Eye…