R & D in Education

If this blog wasn’t on the Chronicle’s site, one would have thought they were speaking of K-12 rather than higher education.   Great blog post by Randy Bass and Bret Eynon on R&D for Teaching With Technology. The major points are just as true in K-12; 1.  “throw out old assumptions about diffusion of innovation, early adopters, and mainstream [...]

The Rest of the Story

This blog post reminded me that last week a pioneer in the radio field left us; Paul Harvey.  For anyone who enjoyed talk radio, his voice and message where a familiar sound.  During the “80′s, I can remember coming home from school and listening to the political debates raging on talk radio.  Living in New Jersey, [...]

The Lessons of Vista

Windows 7 is coming soon from Microsoft and they have decided to scrape Vista.  The study of how Vista failed has lessons for all of us as educators. The first lesson is to always support people’s old stuff.  Many people who bought Vista found that their printer wouldn’t print b/c it lacked a driver.  The [...]

Review; The Latest Doomed Pedagogical Fad

Will Richardson wrote a reaction to Jay Mathews’ article in the Washington Post called The Latest Doomed Pedagogical Fad: 21st-Century Skills. Rather than post my own reaction (Will’s prose is no doubt more convincing than my own), I will review the original article in the hope of deconstructing Mathews’ argument. As I began the article, [...]