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I just finished giving a presentation this morning at the Lausanne Laptop institute titled “Mission Based Technology Programs”. You can download a copy of the presentation here. I realize looking at the presentation that I like to use Keynote and the like to add illustration to my presentation but they are not a repository for [...]

InfoToday has an article on the increasing use of weblogs and RSS in schools. I am hoping to start utilizing RSS in our school to make it easier for students to keep up with class work and parents with news. I think browsers will eventually be supplanted by news aggregators as the most common way [...]

According to this article in the Sun Sentinel a Florida private school is not just going to give laptops to each student but is also replacing textbooks with digital versions. This is an interesting experiment but I still think that the resolution on laptop screens make large amounts of text more difficult to read than [...]

The Chronicle posted an article last week that discusses the conflict apparent in two different copyright laws, the DCMA and TEACH. The much talked about DCMA attempts to curb copyright infringement in a digital world while TEACH attempts to keep that same material available for online learning.

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With all this talk of war I’ve been raising by anxiety level too high. To counteract this I figured I should focus more on my real interest, educational technology. So that’s my theme for today. First, we have an article from the CS Monitor about the age appropriate time to introduce computing in the classroom. [...]

According to the New York Times, Maine’s middle school laptop program is a success that even initial critics have admired. They cite decreased absences and lowered disciplinary action as some of the benefits. I will be interested to see how long term use changes curriculum. Also, will some of the benefits mentioned decrease as the [...]

Uh oh, children are creating their own shorthand, we must stop them! How in the world will we ever control them if they create their own teenage Esperanto?!? Actually I don’t fully dismiss the fact that we should make clear that different audiences require different discourses, but I always like how people freak out when [...]

I thought I should post something related to education for a change. Seems the blog was getting a bit political/humor oriented. An article in Saturday’s NYT details the plans for the new Alexandria Library. They hope to provide easy access to virtually all the world’s books. I’m sure that copyright holders have something to say [...]

We’ve all been aware of the increasing amount of grade inflation in both high schools and universities. How about working for your lawyer mom for high school credit, then suing when you are awarded an A instead of an A+.

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An article in the Chronicle details how a undergradute research has rapidly moved to websites and away from peer-reviewed articles. To counteract this trend a professor has required the use of a certain number of peer-reviewed articles in their papers. It seems to have worked. We see a similar trend in research papers at our [...]