I will warn you up front that you may interpret this post as an attack on digital story telling and those who have popularized this concept and related classroom activities. If you come to this conclusion – 1) my communication skills need to be improved, 2) you need to carefully reread this post. My concern [...]
I differentiate reading for pleasure and reading for work. As an academic reading is a big part of what I do. I sit around and read stuff – books, journal articles, and some web content. When I read for work, I am reading to understand, but I am also reading as a way to accumulate [...]
I pay attention when the general public is told something about higher ed. I am an educational psychologist so the topics are sometimes relevant to my teaching or research. I also am interested in how the area in which I work is presented to the public. In 1961, the average full-time student at a four-year [...]
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Posted 22 August 2010
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My start in combining educational technology and research was many years ago – the mid-1980s. I was interested in the development of reading skills (upper elementary) and was attempting to develop games that would both develop skill and generate data on performance. At the time (Apple II and II+), the technology experience for the user [...]
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Posted 20 August 2010
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Recently Google and Verizon issued a joint comment on net neutrality. This proposal has generated a great deal of buzz (some links provided at the end of this post) and Google has responded in defense of the proposal. So, what is network neutrality and why should you care. I would suggest that the core idea [...]
I was in a good mood Sunday morning. Our youngest daughter was married Saturday evening and there is something that is so positive about the celebration of a couple beginning a life together. My feet hurt, but life felt good. Then, I made the mistake of turning on the television to watch some Sunday morning [...]
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Posted 12 August 2010
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I have owned my own iPad now for a few days. Cindy uses her iPad a great deal and I spent time working on her machine, but the experience is a little different when you develop your own collection of apps. This is definitely a great media consumption device. The experience of browsing, viewing images, [...]
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