TPACK commercial II, Mastercard “Priceless”
Here is the second of the two commercials created specially for our ISTE Radio/Video show. The first one (a take-off on the UPS/Whiteboard commercials can be se...
Tag: Technology
TPACK commercial, UPS/Whiteboard version
Our ISTE Radio/Video show needed a few commercials to break the monotony – so we created a couple. Here is the first one, a take on the UPS / Whiteboard c...
Thoughtless acts? Technology, creativity & teaching
I have always been interested in the manner in which people use (or re-use) everyday things for purposes they were never intended for. Be it a piece of red tape...
Impact of technology v.s. chewing gum on learning
Just got this from Tom Reeves at the CIMA conference, Twente University. Allen, K. L., Galvis, D., Katz, R. V. (2006). Evaluation of CDs and chewing gum in teac...
Douglas Adams, technologies & anticipatory plagiarism
Image Credit Leeks As readers of the blog know, Matt Koehler and I work together quite a lot. In fact we just rotate author-order in our papers since it is hard...
Teaching design, some ideas
I recently received an email from a teacher in Poland, seeking advice for a curriculum outline for their Design Technology Section. They said, and I quote: Unfo...
eduPUNKing a course website!!
I had written about the EduPunk movement earlier, in fact had even designed a logo for it. A brief description of Edupunk can be found on Wikipedia (a google se...
Phoenix rising
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 l...
Putting technology first
Don Norman has a great essay titled Technology First, Needs Last that I strongly recommend. We have been making a similar argument in some of our more recent pi...
Video Bingo in Alabama: Tech & change
How does technology change what we do? Often when a new technology appears we tend to see it in terms of existing practices and structures. So an e-book is the ...
TPACK newsletter #5, Oct – Nov 09
TPACK Newsletter, Issue #5: October/November 2009 Welcome to the fifth edition of the TPACK Newsletter, now with 568 subscribers (representing a 15% increase du...
New forms of doctorate
The Institute of Education, University of London is organizing a series of seminars on New forms of doctorate i.e. the manner in which multimodality and e-learn...
Unpacking TPACK, the book
Candace Figg & Jenny Burson have just released a book titled: Designs for Unpacking Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), making this the se...
21st Century Skills? What do they mean?
A decade into the 21st century, how are we doing with the movement to “position 21st century skills at the center of US K-12 education.” The Nationa...
Technology & Literacy, bemoaning the youth of today :-)
One often hears the criticism that students today don’t know how to write… the part of the blame is placed on technology, on the limitations of text...
Speed of travel of information
I had written earlier about how the rate of change of technology is speeding up, i.e. technologies are changing at an ever faster rate. Related to this is somet...
TPACK (and friends) in T.H.E. Journal.
Matt Townsley sent me an email this morning informing me about a TPACK sighting in THE journal. Well… actually it’s a journal whose title is THE jou...
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday, Internet 40 years old today! It all started 40 years ago today, when a couple of computers were connected by a long gray cable … Read more...
TPACK in a podcast
Just discovered a podcast on TPACK (titled Understanding TPCK) at the msad75mltinews website. It appears to be based on the article (Too cool for school) that w...
TPACK is top story on eSchool News
I just discovered that TPACK made the Top Story of the Week for Educators on eSchool News! Written by Laura Devaney, Senior Editor of eSchoolNews the article is...
Quick Design Video: Are you ready for the future?
Leigh Wolf and Ken Dirkin, instructors in the year III of the MAET program in Plymouth have been assigning, what they call, Quick Design assignments. These are ...
Pomes on creativity
I am in Plymouth, England, for a week, as a part of our off-campus MAET program. I spent time today with the first year cohort, talking with them about creativi...
Online physics-based games
Physics Games – online physics-based games. Some cool stuff here. For instance check out Demolition City Online Physics Games
Design and creative repurposing: Thinking about Ed Tech
One minute design ideas… [dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/fr/video/x93dzc_lota-1-objet-en-moins-de-1-min_creation[/dailymotion] I had posted someth...
Summer Institute for Superintendents, presentation
I was recently invited to present at the 2009 Summer Institute for Superintendents at the beautiful Crystal Mountain Conference Center in Thompsonville, Michig...
Announcing: Short film competition, cool prize for winner!!
Those of you who have been following this blog know, over the past few months I have made a few short videos with my kids. The ones I am most proud of are a set...
Technology Integration 2.0 — was TPACK ;-)
The recently concluded NECC conference had quite a bit of TPACK related presentations. Sadly neither Matt nor I could make it to NECC… maybe next year! On...
Making (non)sense of dots & lines
I love how these interconnected pipes called the Intertubes lead to serendipitous discoveries. Here are two videos, the first I went looking for, and the second...
Harris, Mishra & Koehler, 2009
Harris, J., Mishra, P. & Koehler, M. J. (2009). Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Learning Activity Types: Curriculum-based T...