That is the question we ask when we are determining what tech-based skills, apps, and devices to focus on. We know that your time is at a premium and that this year especially, a variety of professional development requirements are…
Category: Big Questions
Who Is Your Tech Spirit Guide?
This presentation was the opening ice breaker at the August 2016 Tech Training held for LCS teachers. One goal of the training was to reassure people that they can become more confident, more competent tech users. This self-assessment was part…
Watching & Learning: Thought-Provoking Films about Education
Dead Poet’s Society. Teachers. Lean on Me. To Sir With Love. Blackboard Jungle. Stand and Deliver. Mr. Holland’s Opus. Movies such as those have at times shaped American dialogue about education, sometimes even influencing policy as well as inspiring a…
Rediscovering the Learner Within
What’s the biggest obstacle to learning tech? Access? Training? Age? Excuses abound.”I’m too old,” “Kids are born knowing this now; how can I compete?” “It keeps changing all the time,” or the big trump card: “I don’t have time to…
TED Talk: Education Innovation in Slums (Or McDonald’s vs Chinese Restaurants)
Charles Leadbeater, an “Innovation Consultant,” considers how technology is by some of the poorest people in the world. Leadbeater’s idea that technology can lead to the “schoolification of the world,” with information and opportunity available to everyone. He suggests that instead…