Learning for free? What does that mean?

The strange beast that is higher ed

Aug 20, 2008

I have blogged previously about the challenges faced by higher education (here and here), exacerbated (or maybe revealed) by new technologies. Here is an essay by Charles Murray -- not a person I thought I would ever cite approvingly 🙂 He has a recent essay in WSJ...

China, Australia, Nepal & Australia: A zoom tour

Dec 8, 2020

Over the past couple of months I have been asked to give presentations at a variety of different conferences or organizations spread across the world. They are archived below. I was invited to give a talk as part of the Dean's Lecture Series at the School of...

Going crazy with i-Image

Feb 6, 2008

In a previous post I had described David Wong's ideasarecool.com website and his idea of making i-Images. As David describes them, i-Images are "professional, provocative images that seize the viewer's attention and, more importantly, spark their imagination." Anyway,...

You have been terminated: A case for humane design

Aug 14, 2023

Good design cares about details. Good design is humane. Bad design is neither. Designers must bring this attention to detail and humanity to every aspect of their work. And this applies even the invisible parts. This, caring for the "invisible" details, is captured in...

TPACK Newsletter #22: February 2015

Feb 9, 2015

TPACK Newsletter, Issue #22: February 2015 Welcome to the sixth anniversary issue and twenty-second edition of the (approximately bimonthly) TPACK Newsletter! TPACK work is continuing worldwide. This document contains recent updates to that work that we hope will be...

Beyond Quick Fixes: What Teacher Prep Really Needs

Oct 23, 2024

The Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has a new report out, titled "AI is Evolving, but Teacher Prep is Lagging: A First Look at Teacher Preparation Program Responses to AI." This report, which you can read in its entirety here, raises important questions...

A tangent, a line & a circle, another Math-Poem

Jan 13, 2010

A tangent, a line and a circle A math poem Image credit: chrstphre (on Flickr) A point outside a circle, shoots out two lines one heading for the center the other more feline smoothly kisses the curve That delicate swerve of the ball and then, abruptly turns to the...

Fishing for problems: Podcast interview

Feb 18, 2021

I was recently interviewed by Matt Schneidman (Curator, Creator, Podcast Host) for his Fishing for Problems podcast. Matt also publishes an ed-focused newsletter. Our discussion was broadly framed around educational technology and the TPACK framework - but...

Phoenix rising

Dec 22, 2009

Mark Ambinder at the Politics blog at the Atlantic President Obama plans to name Howard A. Schmidt, a veteran cyber security warrior with experience at senior levels of government and industry, to fill a long-anticipated cyber coordinator position at the National...