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
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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
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
Read moreThe Deregulation of Education: From Bubbles to Clicks
Advertisements Image Credit We need leaders who can work with the education community and the “education reformers, proponents of ” the status quo” and the
Read moreICE 2011
Advertisements (Image Credit) Just returned from two days at the Illinois Computing Educators (ICE) annual conference where ICE was celebrating 25 years as an
Read moreMoving Schools to Transformation
Advertisements How do we move schools to transformation and away from “tool use” and “integration?” The diagram above is from my dissertation research where
Read moreTechnology Leadership
The district technology leader could be an administrator, manager, or teacher who has responsibility for technology operations across a school district.
Read moreWe Need Educational Leaders Who Can Move Us to the Next Level — Forward is Not Far Enough!
Advertisements Forward is Not Far Enough We need educational leaders who can move us to the next level. Forward on the same plane is not
Read moreUsing Open Source Software
There is some great open source software for web browsing, word processing, spreadsheets, image editing, and operating systems, among others. Schools should strongly consider the implementation of this software over paid software.
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