Yesterday, I gave a short talk for Softchalk on Flipping the Classroom. As always, I had a great time and hope all that participated learned something they can utilize. During the presentation, I also shared some tips and tricks: Using Google Drive with Softchalk https://www.google.com/intl/en_US/drive/start/index.html Device mirroring with reflector http://www.reflectorapp.com Backchanneling with http://understoodit.com I also [...]
As a teacher who loves to come up with new ways to use technology in the classroom. I had to submit for the opportunity to have Google Glass. Here was my submission. 100 years ago Thomas Edison wrongly predicted “Books will soon be obsolete…scholars will be instructed through the eye…Our schools systems will be completely [...]
While reading and thinking for #MOOCMOOC, an online course I am taking in part for fun and in part for work, I was reminded of a term I had long forgotten. The term is Heutagogy (Self-Determined Learning). I find it interesting how much more relevance this term has to me today with the changes I [...]
I am looking forward to my presentation this morning at the AFC annual convention. Here is a copy of my short presentation where I talked about: Apps, Chroma Key, QR Codes, Backchanneling, Audience Response, Augmented Reality, and the reasoning behind why cellphones in the classroom are more collaborative than calamitous. AFC Presentation: Cell Phones [...]
Ericsson has put out an interesting mini documentary on The Future of Learning. We are on the brink of an extraordinary revolution that will change our world forever. In this new world everyone, everything and everywhere will be connected in real time. We call this the Networked Society, and it will fundamentally change the way [...]
