One of the students in my Biology 20 class this semester has a laptop which he uses as a learning support. He has dyslexia and the word processor greatly increases his ability to communicate in written form, as well as my ability to read it. One of the other students in the class asked if [...]
Archive for March, 2009
What if they all showed up tomorrow with laptops?
2009/03/30One of the students in my Biology 20 class this semester has a laptop which he uses as a learning support. He has dyslexia and the word processor greatly increases his ability to communicate in written form, as well as my ability to read it. One of the other students in the class asked if [...]
EdTech Posse Podcast 5.3 – Jam packed full of fun
2009/03/26I greatly enjoyed attending the IT Summit earlier this week and as with all conferences, I learned as much from the informal conversations as the formal sessions. Dean, Rick and Alec were attending the conference so we took advantage of that to sit down for a conversation over supper and refreshments at Winston’s Pub in [...]
A playful pedagogy
2009/03/12I’ve been thinking more about creativity and learning. As so often happens, a couple of things came to my attention that are related to my ideas from yesterday. First was this TED talk video that came into my iTunes podcast list just today. It is entitled Why play is vital — no matter your age. [...]
But Dean is my role model for life
2009/03/11David Jakes seems to take issue that the largest tag in my tag cloud is Dean Shareski. Sorry, David, I suppose I should use some other tags on my posts. I won’t even link to Dean’s blog in this post.
Creativity is the new technology
2009/03/10I think that the 20th century was very much a technological century, at least in the economically advantaged parts of the world. So many technologies – of war, of medicine, of communication, of transportation and on and on – were developed, more than any other century in human history. (No source on that, I’m just [...]
Blog posts to audio file on Mac OS
2009/03/03This is a wickedly cool solution to a common situation. Quite often as I’m skimming through Google Reader, I come across a tasty looking blog post that looks interesting but is too long to read through at the time. I could bookmark it in my delicious account, but I’m likely to forget to do this. [...]
