The Problem with Education is not Education
Back in 1918, Franklin Bobbitt in Chapter 6 of The Curriculum, made the following statements regarding the the changes needed in the educational system of the day. “As the world …
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A guide through the sea of apps
No matter what type of device your students are using teachers need to make the right choice about how they are integrating technology into their learning environments. What makes this …
There is an App for That! STOP IT!
The move of many educational environments to mobile devices is something that all school should embrace as they offer many benefits to students and teachers. I have written about this …
Games and Simulations: Leadership Development for Distributed Teams
Introduction Leadership is a vast and difficult topic with multiple perspectives and definitions (Guthrie, Phelps, & Downey, 2011, Jang & Ryu, 2011). Added to this complexity, is the fact that …
No, you can’t use Google!
Image source:http://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2013/01/29/01/02/google-76522_640.png Is Google a bad word? Is it a negative aspect of the Internet? Do you use it? How many times do you use Google or another search engine …
Mobile Devices and Blogging
I recently watched a video on the web about how to add a PDF to your blog post using an iPad. See link below. I must say, it was a …
Taking charge of your digital life
I am currently reading a book titled “Professional Learning in the Digital Age: The Educator’s Guide to User-Generated Learning“. In this book I just read a story of a new …
Mobile devices in the classroom
Change is inevitable In April of 2011 I wrote a blog post regarding the future devices of the classroom. http://www.greentigercreations.com/intechgration/2011/04/11/the-future-devices-of-the-classroom/ Some time has passed and it is very clear that …
Hootsuite Posting to Social Media Sites
I have recently hooked up my blog to Hootsuite so that it will post to my social media presence automatically. I got this information from this website. http://techblog.tv/auto-post-to-google-plus-from-wordpress/ This …
More Authentic Use of Technology
To continue on with my discussion of tablet computers in the educational environment started in my last blog post Authentic use of the iPads I would like to talk a little more …