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In education we love to follow the latest fads in technology. At most of the conferences and professional development I have attended over the past year, Twitter was always presented as an instructional technology of the future. But if you read through this article, you’ll find that only 21% of Twitter users are classified...
I’ve been hearing about this launch by Google, and it looks pretty darn cool. I am a big Google Apps fan, and I use it extensively in my international studies program. If you want to develop a collaborative environment, I really think it’s the best. Plus, you can get an enhanced education version for...
This android app caught my eye, as I am always looking for technology-based tools for design thinking. As our students continue to be less and less paper-based, we might find that digital brain storming will become indispensable. And from a classroom perspective, what a perfect solution to the shortage of whiteboard space and laptops.
As I spend half of my day at a high school technical center, I am always looking for examples of using focused learning to enhance Meaning in a student’s education. As I have mentioned before, one way I like to think of Dan Pink’s Meaning aptitude from A Whole New Mind is how I...
Videoconferencing is something you continue to hear about, and I think we can all agree that it continues to create opportunities in education. But this program in Rural Texas really has a great application of the technology. The main project that elementary students use is a presentation about cotton. The Texas students are living...
This article was passed along to me, and I just found it amazing. A Canadian high school student used his science fair project to solve a major ecological problem, the biodegrading of plastic. Obviously this student has been developing the aptitude of Meaning from A Whole New Mind. He took an academic assignment and...
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