Five Technology Trends in Schools – Page 2

Starting an Online Program: To Blend or Not to Blend

August 22, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Internet Safety, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit Blended Learning: First, in all of the blended programs, the students learn in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home at least

Starting an Online Program: The Target Student Group

August 17, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Internet Safety, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit School administrators are being bombarded with encouragement to use digital learning in their classrooms. Neighboring districts may be employing blended learning or

Innovation and Democracy

August 11, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Internet Safety, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit Is innovation a democratic process? Innovate: to introduce something new; make changes in anything established. (reference) In Disrupting Class, author Clayton Christen informs school boards that introducing digital learning

Student-Teacher Interaction Essential in Online Courses

August 5, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements (Click the image to see it larger.) Student-teacher interaction is essential in online courses. Online courses require rich content that includes many modalities for

Good Advice for School Technology Leaders

August 3, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt Five Technology Trends in Schools, Leadership, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit In the May 21 issue of Forbes, the article “Thrifty Does It,” describes how Christian Gheorghe Hates started a billion dollar company

Deregulation of Education 3: Show Me The Money

April 24, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit Wes Freyer recently reported on a digital learning conference in Oklahoma. In this report he included a video about the money potential

Normal is Revolutionary

March 14, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Leadership, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit “What’s revolutionary for adults is normal for kids,” stated Jaime Casap of Google to technology leaders at a meeting of the Illinois Chief Technology

Technology is Distraction in Schools

February 2, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Leadership, online learning, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit Ron Packard of K12.com spoke today at an Illinois Policy Institute program today in Chicago. He thinks technology is a distraction in schools because

Online learning: Shouldn’t We Do better?

December 15, 2011 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, online learning, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit With online learning, shouldn’t we do better? Shouldn’t we have higher expectations? Shouldn’t we stop telling partial truths? Partial truths don’t help

Notes From the Virtual School Symposium 2011

November 13, 2011 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Over 1,900 conferees assembled in Indianapolis for the Virtual School Symposium November 9-11, 2011. My notes from the day follow. A wiki is available for