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 [...]

ISTE Keynote; Wondering who to vote for?

Here are video clips of the five candidates for ISTE Keynote (click on the name to go to a video of them speaking).  I think you can learn a lot about these people and their work from these video clips.  It isn’t their biography or their accomplishments which should make them the ISTE Keynoter, it [...]

NECC 2009; We all win

I recently attended the NECC 2009 conference and here is what I thought: Best Session LOL@NECC – If you were there, you know why, if you weren’t there, I can’t tell you. Like Vegas, it’s better to experience it, than to share that experience. Best Moment Talking to a young student (from Georgia I believe) [...]

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 [...]

My NECC 2009 Planner

As the song goes, “there’s just too much to see waiting in front of me and I know that I just can’t go wrong” at NECC this year.  Here is my copy of my NECC Planner. Notice all the double bookings (literally too much to see). I’m doing a Birds of a Feather session on [...]