In this video blog I discuss all of the things that I learned and noticed while I was at the White House for the launch of the #FutureReady Schools initiative and all the things that it challenged me to do since I have been home. Please share your reactions as …
I am always looking for new ways to make podcasts, music, and generally record audio. Because so many of our creation devices are chromebooks nowadays, I believe we need to push what those devices can do. This tool lets you create music and other audio through the web, and it …
I like a good technology framework as much as the next guy, but I would agree that things need to be simpler than TPACK and SAMR for a lot of teachers. I think that this blog post goes a little far in decrying the “Replace” culture that we have in …
This is a wonderful image. I’m going to just leave this here: By https://twitter.com/bryanmmathers
I love beautifully designed things. It is one of the reason why I love Canva so much, but there hasn’t been a great webpage builder for a very long time, especially not one that allows for the type of commenting and responses that Tackk allows for. My head is swimming …
I haven’t seen a new (and good) analytics tool for Twitter in years, but this one does so many things that I need for capturing and analyzing events and hashtags. Go ahead and put in #EdChat or #BFC530 and see what comes up. It is fascinating. TweetBinder – Analytics for …
I believe deeply in the power of connected learning, and I am so grateful to those who are pursuing it in all forms of education. I really like the structure of “Connected Courses” and the online community that has sprung up around it. Do you think we need something similar …
This is to support the Future-Ready District Pledge work that the U.S. Department of Educational Technology is leading. This is the hangout that is happening tonight: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cnc635m5ngf6ocmbqkbv7q6b6gs How would you support Future-Ready Teaching? How do you make sure teachers are Future-Proof?
While this may not be a game changer for some. For those who heavily invested in Apple TVs and are now investing a lot in Chromebooks, this is huge! While it isn’t free, I think it could be important to think about strategically purchasing licenses for classrooms. AirParrot – Chrome …
Clearly, we have the benefit of hindsight on our side. In 1999 when this book was written, I could see this argument really making a lot of sense. I believe that the author of this book was one of the great contrarians before the first EdTech bubble, during the time …