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What I want to say is that in the span of my career little has changed or advanced about the ways of academic conference activity. The very first one I attended in 1992 baffled me– a room full of people watching a speaker at a lectern read slides about the need to change the way…
ⓔ Please, please, PLEASE stop recording vertical video
There is a disease that is infecting millions of smartphone users. The disease to some seems pretty benign, but that is what makes it so dangerous. It doesn’t kill its host, the host who is blissfully unaware of the horror they are inflicting on others. This disease is VERTICAL VIDEO! Please, say no to George Lucas….
The debate over educational technology
The problem with #edtech debates Nevertheless, think what you may, this debate is worth having. You see, to suggest that technology changes everything is just as daft as to suggest that it changes nothing. So it is only by having this debate that we expose the unreasonableness of dogma and the foolishness of the extreme….
Sharing: Coding and math
Coding Can Help With “Math War” In the article Jonathan pushes to make kids doers of math instead of just doing math. The difference focuses more on creating an open ended math environment (Seymour Papert called this Mathland) and less on drill and skill, which unfortunately, is the model our math textbooks follow. I firmly believe…
The why
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. I’m not going to wade into the arguments for and against Common Core, but there was one aspect that I really liked about it. Part of Common Core focused on the why. In…