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
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Virtual School’s Symposium 2012 Summary
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
Read moreWhere’s the Education Leadership on Technology in Schools?
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
Read moreStarting an Online Program: To Blend or Not to Blend
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
Read moreInnovation and Democracy
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
Read moreStudent-Teacher Interaction Essential in Online Courses
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
Read moreGood Advice for School Technology Leaders
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
Read moreWith Technology in Schools Nothing Has Changed
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
Read moreTechnology Enhancement: Fundamentally Flawed
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
Read moreNormal is Revolutionary
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
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