Conversation #1 - Jeff Mao, Coordinator of Educational Technology, Maine Learning Technology Iniative

On Friday, February 17, 2006, I had a conversation with Jeff Mao, Coordinator of Educational Technology for the Maine Learning Technology Iniative (MLTI), about 1:1, the stories of the Maine laptop program, and what schools who are thinking of 1:1 should be doing to prepare. I’ve known Jeff for at least six years [...]

The Metaphor for 21st Century Education

Jeff Utecht posted this 21st Century Education Metaphor:
I like to use the analogy of a river and a delta.
A river is constantly flowing in one direction, slow and steady. If something blocks it, it will find a path of least resistance around it and continue on its way. Information in the 20th century and web [...]

2 cents on 1:1

David Warlick has really been asking so many thought provoking questions lately. Today’s question is, “Should we be going to a 1:1 arrangement in our schools?”
I’m in the process of trying to implement a Tablet PC 1:1 program in our 5th grade for next year. We’ve begun a conversation with my department, our Middle School [...]

10 Reasons to Increase Education Spending

David Warlick just posted the following:
I think that Bush should propose a 25% increase in education adding 15 billion to the approximately 60 billion that is currently available for national education programs.
If you agree, why? What are the top 10 reasons why George Bush should passionately be calling for congress to increase education spending [...]

Learning About Podcasting

Check out NCQ Talk for amazing resources on podcasting, discussions on how to podcast effectively, and why to podcast. The also cover College as well as K-12 technology issues and point to so many amazing resources online. One of which is the Education Podcast Network. Amazing resources — hours and hours of content for the [...]

Audacity and Wordpress for Learning Labs

So — I just finished my first video stream tutorial. I created it with Windows Media Encoder and posted it on our Windows Media Streaming Server. Then I linked to it using our Wordpress MU Blog server (we needed to tweak the MU server a bit to link to mms:// servers — here’s the hack [...]

Social Networks…

There’s been a great conversation on Social Networks going on at the ISED-L Listserv. Here are the archives.
And my two cents:
Hi,
This is a great conversation. Conversation with students on social networks is important, but it is really the kids who are going to make the decisions on how they use technology. I [...]

The Goal of Education in the US

I believe that the best business/schools/families have clear goals. This perspective is seen in books describing corporations like Good to Great (The best companies have clear goals), in Alfie Cohn’s in Unconditional Parenting (He asks, “What type of person do you want your child to be when they are an adult?”), and in [...]

The Implications of Steadily Cheaper and More Powerful Computers - ISED-L

Just posted this in response to Fred Bartel’s ISED-L post earlier this week:
Boy Fred, You always motivate me to write long responses to your posts! I started [ www.learning-blog.org ]a blog over break — that, along with adjusting old third child - who is six weeks old - took much of my [...]

School in other Countries

Arvind Grover, another New York City Technologies is visiting his family in India and posted the following about preschool’s in India:
Preschools are somewhat of a new phenomena in India, and it seems like they are starting out on a great foot. In India, there are government schools and public schools—government schools are like U.S. public [...]

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