Web 2.0
Students: School a Technology Downgrade
Teenagers are speaking up once again—stating that, in technology, school is a big downgrade from what they experience, and expect, in the rest of their lives.
That message comes through in new data from Project Tomorrow, the nonprofit group, once called NetDay, that has surveyed school communities across the United States since 1993.
The Speak Up 2008 [...]
Online Learning in the Spotlight
Online education gets a thorough workout in the new “Technology Counts” report, released today by Education Week. (Subscription required for full access.) Full disclosure: I covered technology for this newspaper and wrote articles in the previous 12 editions of this report. This year’s report gives examples of established and nascent forms of online education, some [...]
Gluttons for Web 2.0
The Consortium for School Networking conference, in Austin, has been the scene of two interesting days of near-constant discussion about Twitter, Facebook, blogging, podcasting, Wikipedia, open content, curriculum wikis, online video games, and smartphones–and how those Web 2.0 tools fit together with the traditional school staples of assessment, curriculum, student privacy and safety, budgets, and [...]
Ed-Tech Leaders Convene in Austin
This week I am in Austin, Texas, at the annual conference of the Consortium for School Networking, a key group based in Washington, with a national membership of school administrators who make decisions about technology, teacher-leaders, university professors and researchers, vendors, and various consultants and government officials.
CoSN has a quality program each year, and the [...]
