I’ve been holding on to this post for a week or so, rolling it around in my head trying to connect a few dots before clicking the publish button. It’s got to do with Apple, and SOPA and Raspberry Pi and education and learning and on and on and on….. It started with the education event that Apple hosted on January 19th. At this event Apple unveiled iBooks2 and iBooks Author. After several weeks of hype and people breathlessly...
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Writing my grade 11 English exam in preparation for mid term exams next week. Earlier in the year I had the students in this class read a piece called Classroom without Walls (pdf) written by Marshall McLuhan. I was going though the piece this AM...
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I think I bought my first computer in 1998. It was a big beige desktop box from Dell. I had a machine for probably two years before that; but I had received it as a gift from an uncle who was buying a new...
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Media companies need to relearn the business they are in at this point in history. Granted, that when customers can copy, redistribute and remix the products they purchase quickly and easily, it makes these kinds of businesses much more challenging to be in. It...
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The last year or so has seen a lot of pundits talking about the death of long form blogging. The continuing rise of Facebook, Google +, Twitter, insert other social network here, are supposed to be hastening along the death of the blog and...
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My understanding of what’s important in education is changing. Its becoming more active and more focused on making, creating and connecting. I’m not sure if this is mental blowback from my thoughts about tablets of all type and my concerns with them being machines...
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I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity. Joichi Ito in the New York Times
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