WOW!! I was just reading the Digital Education blog @ Education Week when I learned about Super Wi-Fi and White Spaces. There I was . . . innocently reading their posting on how the FCC Approves E-Rate Changes . . . When BAM, I am hit with new terms that […]
The National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University just reported on the finding of their 3-year POINT project. This research, the first scientific study of performance pay ever conducted in the United States, investigated the foundational question, “Does bonus pay alone improve student outcomes?” Interestingly enough, they found the […]
I was just reading through the Edutopia website when I happened across an article entitled Freedom of Information: How a Wisconsin School District Ditched Internet Filters. This article explains how their new Director of Information, Tim Peltz, opened up his district’s internet access. He provided access to most websites, discussion […]
Bill Strickland is a man who has a vision. He grew up in Pittsburgh in a rough part of the city. He learned about building things with clay in high school and hasn’t stopped building since. He has spent his life building schools, facilities and lives for inner-city kids and […]
drzreflects.com In the UNI workshop on our Liberal Arts Core, I mentioned the need for educators to consider our students’ needs and address them – not the other way around. At UNI the average undergraduate student is 21 years old. This places this audience right in the middle of […]
How do teacher educators use technology?Many of faculty use the BlackBoard content management system for posting grades, emailing their students, providing copies of their PowerPoint presentations and provide assignment pages for students to better understand what is expected in class.They are USING technology but how are they updating their students’ […]
How do we effect change in our schools if our Teacher Education programs just keep doing more of the same? We talk about changing the learning environments of our schools, but where is the paradigm changing in our Teacher Education institutions? A new set of standards (INTASC) are being released […]
Backchanneling is a process where students converse in an online chatroom, usually while listening to a lecture or watching a multimedia presentation of some sort. We have been using backchanneling with our university students at the University of Northern Iowa. Rob Galloway talks about this on his blog. We have […]
What a Wonderful Week!!! I have just spent a wonderful week in Denver at the ISTE 2010 conference. Formerly known as NECC (National Educational Computing Conference), this event has been running for decades. I first attended in 1992 and have gone every year except once when I was in Malaysia […]
It’s HERE!!!! . . . . well almost here. Mashable just posted that Google has launched a new tool called the Google App Inventor. This new tool is supposed to enable non-coders to develop their own apps. Using a modular programming process, the neo-developer can drag and drop “blocks” to […]