From the NSF website: the world’s smallest radio is a carbon nanotube! Broadcast entertainment has been slow to catch the digital wave, but innovations like this may just re-awaken the art. I’m not going to provide details… read it for yourself. On another note, it’s been a good month since my last post and I’ve […]
Continue reading →Yesterday I posted abut the K20 Center’s OK-ACTS Leadership Seminar. While the change pedagogy and introduction to classroom technologies is great, I think there is room for improvement. One key activity is a guided reading of resources that happen to be located on the web. The resources might as well have been PDFs located on […]
Continue reading →I’m writing this post from one of the K20 Center’s OK-ACTS Leadership Seminars. The OK-ACTS (Oklahoma Achievement through Collaboration and Technology Support) program works with schools leaders through the leadership seminar and schools that have received funding for technology and professional development through a grant from the Oklahoma Educational Technology Trust (the grant is administered […]
Continue reading →Continuing with the perceived attributes of innovation (previous post)… 2. Compatibility. Back to the realization that some great technologies out there are incompatible with current modalities of teaching and learning. I would love to see more Web2.0 tools in the classrooms, but these tools require (gasp!) collaboration and creativity, neither of which are part of […]
Continue reading →I’ve started reading Everett Rogers, Diffusion of Innovation. What a great book! It’s got my brain spinning and making some strong connections to our work at the K20 Center. First, I really like his definition of innovation: An innovation is an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other […]
Continue reading →The Chickasaw Nation has gifted the state of Oklahoma with a very classy site to discover all things Oklahoma. OklaTravelNet.com is a nice example to creating a fun and interactive website. It’s a nice example of what Macromedia Flash can do. It’s worth checking out.
Continue reading →In a recent blog posting, Ewan McIntosh makes a note of Andrew Keen and, to quote Ewan, “Dave Weinberger’s superb riposte of it.” The title and subtitle of Keen’s book does well to summarize his ideas: The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today’s user-generated media are destroying our […]
Continue reading →Last Wednesday, I was asked to give the Keynote speech at the Oklahoma Technology Association lunch during the Encyclomedia conference in Oklahoma City. It was a chance to introduce some emerging ideas I’ve had for educational reform. Of course, 40 minutes was barely enough time to scratch the surface and bring the activities of the […]
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