"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
Yesterday during a web conference with faculty teaching in the Creighton University Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Leadership, we were discussing andragogy – the teaching of adults. Jeff Miller noted that one practice he used was to add Twitter to his classes. In an email later following up with me, he shared his rationale that is in… Read more Teaching and Learning with Twitter
There has been a lot on the news lately about artificial intelligence and how it is impacting the future. Already there are advice posts regarding how AI can enhance education, such as “7 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Change Higher Education” or “Could Online Tutors and Artificial Intelligence be the Future of Teaching?”. Yet, this morning… Read more Will AI Do Improv?
As I was driving in this morning, I was listening to NPR Morning Edition, and they aired a story about British Ambassador Tom Fletcher‘s farewell letter to Lebanon. Ambassador Fletcher has been at his post for the past three years, a time of tremendous strife with the Syrian conflict so close. As moving as the… Read more The Risk of Not Engaging
My colleague Jon Becker in our Office of Online Academic Programs here at VCU posted an interesting Twitter conversation in his blog post today. He noted that it started with a live tweet by Jesse Stommel of Jim Groom’s presentation at #et4online. Derek Bruff responded with what he tagged an honest question, and Jon responded… Read more 30-Day Challenge – Day 25 – The Training Wheel Question
As many of you know, Jeff Nugent and I teach a graduate course in the Preparing Future Faculty program called GRAD-602: Teaching, Learning and Technology. Our 24 PhD candidates and post-docs spend the first 6 weeks exploring different potential technologies, such as blogs, Twitter, Diigo, and other networked applications. Most of them are familiar with… Read more Toe Dipping in Technology
At the recent NMC Retreat, the hashtag #NMChz had 998 tweets over the three days (at least that I could capture with Archivist). I copied the text of the tweets, removed NMChz and RT as two obvious repetitious terms, and then dumped what was left in Wordle. Interesting results: Click on the image above to… Read more A Thousand Tweets
I have enjoyed two full days at the 2012 Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Baltimore. I previously posted materials from our presentation and my Twitter 2o2 session. By the way, Skyping Jon Becker in for Twitter 202 went just fine, and Jon added some great observations on the personal, professional, and academic use of Twitter. … Read more Two Days of MARC
At next week’s Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Baltimore, I have been asked to lead an “Experience IT” session on Twitter 202. Per the program, “…the “Experience IT” format offers a hands-on, highly interactive introduction to newer tools and technologies so you can explore their potential impact in the workplace and classroom and on your… Read more Twitter 202
My wife was shopping at Jo-Ann‘s Fabrics this afternoon, which meant I was across the street with a cup of coffee and my Nook ereader. I have just started Larry Rosen’s 2010 book Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn. So far, I am only up through Chapter 2, but I came across… Read more Sorta Like the Sky