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Category: Change

  • Alberta Ed XX

    Well, at least the Alberta government is thinking about changing the way that students are taught. Taking into consideration that there is more time spent on phones than on phonics for the average student (depending on who you talk to and where). Dave Hancock: Alberta’s education system needs to tap into what kids are actually…

  • Portugal’s Technology Integration

    Huffington Post is not usually a place where I would normally look for a edtech story, but somehow I came across this one by Don Tapscott. Tapscott points out that Portugal was suffering in 2005 until the government decided to make sure that students had access to the ‘net. The kicker to the success of…

  • If we want kids to grow up digital, it might mean

    … that, like the Millennials in this report (RWW) who are often successfully dictating to their IT departments what type of technology they want to make use of to communicate for business (often in ways that are similar to those used for pleasure). This new generation of employee seems to have little regard to privacy…

  • Generations of Media, SNS and the Ballot

    I last wrote about Shirky in November, and now I’ve spotted a TED talk from his as well. This one was just recorded and addresses how social networks are changing patterns of communication and how those networks are perhaps able to if not shake the Earth, at least report it. Right now, Twitter is going…

  • Stay safe online – Access is a right, so is free speech

    Some interesting articles came across my screen this morning while I was working on some podcasts. The first was a story from RRW that Trent Reznor is kinda quitting Twitter along with other celebrities who are also jumping off the Social Networking bandwagon. The second was from the Times, on how Les sages have ripped…