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 proactive steps to consider citizenship issues with students. In recent years, many blue ribbon committees… Read More ›
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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 held October 21-24, 2012. Across the program, presentations looked at research in the field, instructional models,… Read More ›
Where’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 basic skills. Development of writing skills. Problem solving Understanding abstract mathematics and science concepts. Simulation… Read More ›
Starting 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 some of the time. Second, the students’ experience online delivery with some control over the… Read More ›
Innovation 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 into schools may be hampered by purposeful democratic processes that are part of schools’ cultures…. Read More ›
Student-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 students to choose their learning path, including text, audio, video, kinesthetic and other modes. This… Read More ›
Good 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 with a shoestring budget. School leaders tell their communities that they must do more with… Read More ›
With 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 study occurred in a limited scope with a few school districts and I stated it… Read More ›
Technology 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 means purchasing a variety of techno gizmos so that teachers can teach the same way,… Read More ›
Normal 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 Officers today. Casap implored school leaders to build great teachers, appeal to students’ motivations, focus on the… Read More ›