Assessing Technology Literacy; Hitting the Moving Target

Assessing Technology Literacy; Hitting a Moving Target View more presentations from joebires. Thanks to my wonderful audience for allowing me to spend an hour with you having a conversation about technology literacy.  If you have any questions, contact me via email or twitter. Thanks again to GAETC2010 for this opportunity. Here are my links from [...]

Building a Niche vs. Institution Redesign

Interesting ideas here from Richard Florida that I think apply to education and the educational technology community specifically; are we as educators focusing on redesigning our institutions for the 21st century or are we focused on building niche education spaces for 21st century learning? Both are necessary. Next week, I will be at EduCon and [...]

What is making you think?

What have you seen that is making you think, challenging your notions of schools and learning?  Here are a few things that have challenged me recently. Two questions that can change your life from Daniel Pink on Vimeo.

The Colonization of Technology Literacy

It is good to see the  new draft of the Technological Literacy Framework for the 2012 National Assessment of Educational Progress finally getting people’s attention.    I first saw what this draft would contain at the NECC 2009 conference . It can fundamentally change how we use technology in education in this country therefore the stakes are high.  As [...]

The Voice from the Wilderness

I begin each year asking what do I want my students to know and be able to do, not merely asking what I will teach and how. Hopefully, that decision about what to teach will be the by-product of all my thoughts and experiences as a professional, not merely referencing the many educational standards that [...]

Collaboration and Standards

I attended a session at NECC 2009 called Review of the NAEP Assessment Framework for Technological Literacy. One of my questions coming out of this session was why was the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) not at the table for this assessment framework when so many other associations are participating (ISTE, ITEA, P21, etc). [...]

‘Defining’ National Standards

A draft of the new national standards has been released (or been leaked). The general reaction is underwhelming. These national standards are everyone’s panacea for American education, but just like a balanced budget, everyone agrees on the idea but the devil is in the details. These draft standards are difficult to critique effectively because of the [...]

Top Ten Ways to Predict the Future

Educational leaders often wonder how to prepare students for the 21st century.  The reality is that the 21st century is literally today.  Here are some ideas to help you ‘predict the future’: 1.  Advocate for Bandwidth and Hardware If there weren’t enough textbooks for a class of students how mad would you be or how much hot [...]

2012 is Coming

I attended this session at NECC 2009; Review of the NAEP Assessment Framework for Technological Literacy and I discussed some of my thoughts at my birds of a feather session yesterday on the eighth grade technology proficiency requirement. The web site for the NAEP Assessment Framework is here What I found interesting is that the current technology [...]

The Mirage of Standards

As another school year closes for many of us, ask yourself a question: How much time was spent aligning to standards and was that time well spent?  Did you align to the state standards, how about your national curricular association’s standards, don’t forget about the 21st century learning standards, and then there are the many [...]

Next Page »