This year, like most, there were lots of sessions at the eTech Ohio Educational Technology Conference about new technologies. There was a definite theme to many of them: overcoming the taboos of technology. In our schools, cell phones have been governed by a variation on “don’t ask, don’t tell.” We know that nearly all of [...]
Posted on February 4th, 2010 by John Schinker
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We see that the world has changed. We’ve been listening to the buzzwords for a decade now. Online learning. Digital citizenship. Web 2.0. Personal learning networks. Social networking. Data-driven decision making. We have to prepare our students for a world we can’t imagine. We have to re-invent our industrial age skills. If Rip Van Winkle [...]
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by John Schinker
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The problem started because a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It was 1999. I had a new job. My predecessor had ordered a new server, which arrived after I did. I didn’t know the first thing about setting up or running a server. But I had web access, and I had [...]
Posted on January 31st, 2010 by John Schinker
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It’s been a year since I got into the future-prediction business. And while I don’t want to make this a habit, I did say I’d return to the list at the end of the year to see how I did. If you’re going to make predictions about the future, it’s only fair that you review [...]
Posted on December 31st, 2009 by John Schinker
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There’s a standard litmus test for technology use in education. What does the technology give us that can’t be done in other ways? If I’m going to spend all of the time and money needed to implement a technology initiative, there should be some reason for it. Let’s face it: technology is expensive. The hardware [...]
Posted on November 30th, 2009 by John Schinker
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