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Here’s the list of solutions to fear that was generated during our session. I’ll post our videos soon. How do you overcome fear? having the conversation pool your strengths accountability make mistakes new skills understand the problem how to get people to pay attention need a decision-making process make yourself aware of what’s out there…
I’m in San Antonio at the Educause Learning Institute annual conference. Highlights so far have been hanging out with some great and interesting people: Barbara G., Barbara S., Leslie, Martha, Brian Lamb, Alan Levine and more. I also saw Henry Jenkins and George Siemens give a couple of interesting talks. My impressions were that Jenkins…
For those of you not following the comments to yesterday’s post, one of the teachers from the show, Steve Maher, has not only commented, but has a good post about some of the issues pertaining to technology and education specifically in response to a review in the Philadelphia Inquirer online. Even if the show wasn’t…
Here’s the video I ended up creating, with some help from one of my students. The title is predictive. It really might be offensive, but that’s the point. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
Yesterday afternoon, I participated in a conference call with four intelligent and passionate women. We’re working on a presentation about combating fear of technology in higher education, specifically fear of web 2.0. Barbara Ganley said something that stuck with me, so much that I couldn’t sleep last night. She encouraged us to think about pushing…
Last night, I made my way through this article on the use of digital resources by humanities and social sciences faculty. There was a considerable amount of food for thought, some good, some not so good. I was reading it with an eye toward finding a clue as to how to improve our own services.…
It’s blame the Internet for everything day! I don’t even know where to start. I guess I’ll start with the Paper of Record’s article on Teacher vs. Technology. I haven’t seen one of these in a while, but the tone in this one is particularly galling. The author calls a professor who smashes a cellphone…
The NY Times offers an article that walks a fine line between exuberance and outright fear toward the prospect of online education. The article points out that 1 in 5 college students took a course online last fall. Traditional four-year private colleges, of course, don’t really do online education. There is some fear that the…
Last year, I asked the question, “What is Education?” My students and I spent the entire semester discussing this question. I think we had more questions by the end than answers. And the same may happen with the current question. This last week, I have attended convocation and a farewell reception for a departing staff…
The first day of school begins for child # 1 in about an hour and for the youngest, two hours. We are actually semi-organized this year. Yesterday, we went to purchase all the school supplies and the kids cleaned out their backpacks–from last year!–and reloaded them with new stuff. The three of us all thought…
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