A few days ago, I did a riff off this Dan Tynan article – When Should You Buy Your Child a Smartphone? – in a brief interview for one of our local news outlets. I was hoping they would post our segment online (like they sometimes do), but apparently different news days produce varying quantities …
Tag: Technology
Toward Improving the Instructional Use of Technology
I’ve appreciated the discussion taking place over the last few days regarding SAMR, and am impressed with the variety of opinions and pressures resulting from varied local implementations. Stop the SAMR madness. Wow. — David Jakes (@djakes) February 24, 2014 Because my district has yet to “shove SAMR” down teachers’ throats, I didn’t realize how invested …
Pay Attention 2014
The talented Ann Oro has developed an update to the original Pay Attention video I created back in 2007. As I watched her updated version, I was struck by how many things have changed in so little time. Since 2007, I’ve taken a new position in a new school district. This alone has translated into …
If Tomorrow is #DLDay, When Do We Celebrate Learning with Pencils? #LwPDay
February 5th is Digital Learning Day! Fun, I know. There’s a pledge you can take, by clicking a link. I took it, I know.1 There’s even an official avatar. How many days do you know that have their own avatar? Now, I appreciate a good party as much as the next guy, but why do we really …
When Learning Isn’t Vulnerability
I’ve sat on this post for several days now, because I empathize with the sense of fear that George Siemens described two weeks ago: When I first started blogging, I had a sense of fear with every post (“did that sound stupid?”), loss of sleep soul-searching when a critical comment was posted, and envy when peers posted …