Doug Woods (ICT in Schools) has blogged about why he thinks that it’s inappropriate the say that “good teachers don’t need technology” and he goes into some details here: http://doug-woods.blogspot.com/2010/06/good-teachers-dont-need-technology.html I’ve tried to post a comment on his blog, but so far it didn’t appear there, so I’d like to use…
Tag: technology
Online Writing Tool: Spellchecker for Luxembourgish
Thanks to Michèle Klecker I’ve just discovered an interesting Online Writing Tool, that allows you to check the spelling of text written in Luxembourgish. Even though the authors of this tool claim that it’s not meant to be a learning tool, I do think that it is a tool for learning,…
Blogging Students
I’ve instructed half of my BScE students that they will have to use their “professional” blog @ blog.bsce.uni.lu for their assignments, autonomous studies, homeworks and other tasks… and I’m very curious to see how they will manage to learn how to use this technology tool and how they will make…
Google Tech Talk by Mitchel Resnick: Sowing the Seeds for a more Creative Society
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qWF1SJ4LGI I love the first slide, where Mitchel Resnick presents three words and asks his audience to play the “odd one out” game with him. The words are: Television, Computer, Paintbrush. Which word would you choose? This is a pretty simple, but very effective tool to make a quick diagnosis…
TPACK: Using technology for enriched experiences of content
I’ve discovered, more by chance, the DEVOLVE website (http://www.open.ac.uk/darwin/devolve-me.php), which allows you to make a “[…] journey back in time [and] to see yourself as you would have looked as an early human”. To me, this is a nice example of a digital technology tool that allows you to have…
“Free: the past and future of a radical price” – a book by Chris Anderson
This book is about the 21st century meaning of “free”, which really means you don’t have to pay anything… as opposed to the 20th century meaning of free, which meant that there’s a hidden cost somewhere. The book is available as a book (for instance on www.amazon.de, www.amazon.com), with a…
ISTE | Learning & Leading with Technology
ISTE’s membership magazine, Learning & Leading with Technology, is one of our best! Learning and Leading is more than just the name of the magazine—the simple phrase encapsulates ISTE’s philosophy that technology is essential to school transformation and future opportunities for the 21st-century learners around the globe. via iste.org This…
Book Review: “Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) for Educators” by AACTE
I’ve recently “discovered” the TPCK model, by browsing the iTunesU catalogue and falling over Dr. Ruben Puentedura’s video podcast called “As We May Teach” (see: http://www.hippasus.com/). I was totally unaware of the theoretical and empirical work done in the field of TPCK, so far and so I was very happy…