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One Laptop Per Child –“Rwanda’s Laptop Revolution”
I just heard the NPR story today about Rwanda’s One Laptop Per Child initiative and some of the challenges they are facing — students playing games, lost laptops and the fear of reprisal from the...
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Tech Rules in School: The Kids Are Alright
Schools are getting ready to hit the mat with students over technology acceptable use policies and figuring out to avoid the ten count pinning. This is a hard issue, but for many schools and school...
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Failure is the Option: Video Games and Schools
Kids love games. They spend hours digging through different ways to level up. They hit one hurdle, then move and shift to figure out how to overcome the obstacle. It can take hundreds of...
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Interview with Erin Reilly, New Media Literacies
Check out my interview about the book with Erin Reilly of New Media Literacies. http://newmedialiteracies.org/
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The Journey to the Center of the iPad: Creation
Gadi Ben-Yehuda, Writer, Instructor, Social Media Director at IBM’s Center for The Business of Government, asks a great question, “What does it mean to be a creator and how can we make it easier and...
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Caught Between Two Worlds – The Digitally Developing School
Woodside High School’s principal David Reilly describes 17 year-old Vishal Singh as being “caught between two worlds — one that is virtual and one with real-life demands.” Vishal is the focal point of...
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The Future of Education – Interview with Steve Hargadon
Check out my interview with Steve Hargadon on the Future of Education. View the Elluminate Live! recording
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The China Education Question: Innovation?
Facebook wants to get into China. Or, at least that’s what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has led us to think. On a recent visit to China, he declared, “If you want to connect the whole world, how can...
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Is Reality Broken? “The Search For Friends To Take Into Reality?”
I had the good fortune of hearing Swedish mystery writer Henning Mankell speak this past weekend. I’ve devoured all of his books and am just beginning his last Inspector Wallender book, The Troubled...
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