Tag: Technology

Student-Teacher Interaction Essential in Online Courses

(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 is one of the features of online learning that is difficult to produce and separates from … Continue reading Student-Teacher Interaction Essential in Online Courses

Good Advice for School Technology Leaders

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 less. Hates' strategies show how he cut costs nearly 90% while he was able to deliver … Continue reading Good Advice for School Technology Leaders

Technology Enhancement: Fundamentally Flawed

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, moving overhead transparencies to slide shows.  Teachers continue to drone away at the front of the … Continue reading Technology Enhancement: Fundamentally Flawed

Normal is Revolutionary

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 basics, and prepare students for more education after high school, although not necessarily a four year … Continue reading Normal is Revolutionary

The Deregulation of Education: From Bubbles to Clicks

Image Credit We need leaders who can work with the education community and the "education reformers, proponents of " the status quo" and the "change agents." Finances, changing demographics, and performance measures are putting pressure on the current system. We need change, but is it "market-driven" change? Does market-driven change focus on students and their … Continue reading The Deregulation of Education: From Bubbles to Clicks

ICE 2011

(Image Credit)    Just returned from two days at the Illinois Computing Educators (ICE) annual conference where ICE was celebrating 25 years as an organization.  The ICE conference is always an outstanding way to see what's happening in classrooms with technology, paw the latest hardware in the vendor area, reconnect with the professional contacts, and … Continue reading ICE 2011

Moving Schools to Transformation

  How do we move schools to transformation and away from "tool use" and "integration?"  The diagram above is from my dissertation research where I recommended a planning model, I called the "Technology Planning Web." In that research I concluded that technology policy formulation "focused on collecting the objects of technology . . ."  Today … Continue reading Moving Schools to Transformation

We Need Educational Leaders Who Can Move Us to the Next Level — Forward is Not Far Enough!

Forward is Not Far Enough  We need educational leaders who can move us to the next level.  Forward on the same plane is not far enough.  We need a change of plane, not more of the same.  In a previous post, I highlighted the issue that schools still look the same way they did 50 years … Continue reading We Need Educational Leaders Who Can Move Us to the Next Level — Forward is Not Far Enough!