personal technology – When the Curves Line Up

A Different View of Digital Citizenship

January 1, 2013 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Internet Safety, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit Many digital citizenship programs focus on digital citizenship with students with a list of “don’ts.” The ideas below look at positive and

Virtual School’s Symposium 2012 Summary

October 28, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Internet Safety, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements The student panel at the Virtual Schools Symposium 2012 Over 2,000 conferees assembled in New Orleans, Louisiana for iNACOL’s edition of its Virtual Schools Symposium

Where’s the Education Leadership on Technology in Schools?

October 10, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit In 1988, Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) reported the “most promising current uses and demonstrations” (pp.12-13) for computers: Drill and practice to master

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

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

With Technology in Schools Nothing Has Changed

June 12, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt Leadership, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit With technology in schools nothing has changed. Several years ago, I performed some original research about technology in schools (reference). While this

Technology Enhancement: Fundamentally Flawed

June 5, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt Technology

Advertisements Image Credit The use of the term “technology enhancement” is fundamentally flawed. First definitions from dictionary.com: 1.to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify; 2.to raise the value or price of. In schools this

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