The Education Technology of 2013 Moore’s Law says that computer processing power doubles roughly every two years. In the 1970s, processing speeds ranged from 740 KHz to 8 MHz. The Commodore 64, one of the…
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10 Secrets To Unlocking The Learning Potential Of The iPad
So the iPad, then. Pop culture’s plaything and #edtech’s darling. It’s an app library, a media consumption device, and a mobile learning tool that makes yesterday’s graphing calculators, smartboards, and laptops look like abacuses. So…
14 Currencies For the Digital Learner
Currency is something of value, or something that represents value. Knowledge, gold, respect, or social media following all represent kinds of currency. And in 2012, it could be that the currencies in learning are changing….
25 Reasons To Feel Better About Napping
It’s almost cruel the way adults ease children into life outside of the house. They got us on board with the whole going to school thing by letting us take naps in pre-school. But then,…
13 News Ways To Learn In 2013
by Connie Malamed, theelearningcoach.com In The eLearning Coach New Year’s tradition, I’m presenting another list of compelling ways to learn online this year. Opportunities for learning seem limitless, applications get smarter and the content gets…
15 Legitimate Ways Daydreaming Improves Thinking
The student’s eyes drift to the classroom window and the teacher’s voice fades from consciousness. The daydream begins. It’s a familiar scene, one we have likely both experienced as students and struggled against in our…
8 Reasons Failure Can Be A Good Thing
Anyone even passingly familiar with Facebook knows everyone tends to live a life of great success (right?), while failure is just that thing Larry David and Louis C.K. have managed to wring gratifying careers from…
How Students Learn
By watching predictions play out. Through the right collaboration at the right time. By being left alone. Through play. By seeing the parts of the whole, and the whole of the parts. Through realizing the…
31 Of The Most Influential Books About Education Ever Printed
by Grant Wiggins With the holidays soon upon us, I thought it appropriate to provide a list of what are arguably the most historically influential books in education, as we ponder gifts for colleagues, friends…
Questioning Our Use Of Technology In The Classroom
by Tom Woodward This was an Ignite style session where I expressed my own personal frustration with educational technology at scale and attempted to then offer some redeeming alternatives actively being pursued by others. Below…
31 Surprising Facts About Learning
31 Surprising Facts About Learning (That Challenge The Academic Approach) Have you checked your assumptions about student learning at the door? People in general, hold onto beliefs that are shaped by early experiences, the media,…
What Happens If You Give A Two Year-Old An iPad?
The iPad is just one of many mobile devices that have emerged in the last few years. Android tablets, iPods, Windows smartphones, Kindle eReaders and Kindle Fires, and an array of equipment from LeapFrog, VTech,…
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