After usability testing, 21st Century Skills: Teaching & Learning is open to the public. The website, 21st Century Skills: Teaching & Learning, went live yesterday. Lainie McGann posted in her blog     21st Century Skills: Teaching & Learning    With the increase of accountability tied to standardized testing and No Child Left Behind’s emphasis on [...]

Andy Rush posts about a video series he watched at at Human Dog Laboratory. I am moved by the apathy I hear in the high school math teacher’s voice and impressed up on how incredible this medium would be to give teachers voice. So many teachers have a story to tell. A story that once [...]

David Warlick’s post, "Contemporary Literacy: Who and When" rang so true with me. In it he discusses Jon Pederson’s post’s Challenge to the New Information Environment. Jon asks the following question: What percentage of adults have the required skills to a) navigate this environment and b) be critical consumers of information? Can we expect our [...]

What’s your working definition of visual literacy? Keith Lightbody defines visual literacy as: the ability to understand and produce visual messages. Some Implications:(1) visual skills can be learned(2) visual skills are not usually isolated from other sensory skills(3) teachers can provide appropriate learning environments and materials(4) teachers can allow students to create their own visual [...]

Boyle states, “This is the video game generation”. (2005). Students want hands on learning and seek entertainment. Imagine students who turn to technology with its entertaining appeal to assist in school work and problem solving activities in a routine manner. Successful technology implementation changes the way teachers teach and the way students learn. Boyle, A. [...]

Link: 2 Cents Worth David Warlick on his blog 2 Cents Worth recently said the following, Might we come to a time when there is no more digital divide between the techno-young and tech less old? I think so. When we, as adults, working in an industry (and world) that is changing rapidly, master the [...]

We are moving. It is so humbling when you have to pack all your belongings in boxes, separate trash from treasure, and try to ignore the dirt that is revealed as you move furniture and empty your house. The toughest part of the move is not being connected. I called 1 week ahead– but the [...]

Link to: Techfoot Speaking with Understanding About Net Gen Learners When it comes to understanding the use of media in education and development, take a tip from the professor. Christopher Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard Graduate School of Education says, “Don’t start with the technology, when you start with technology, [...]

Because of my firm belief in technology’s ability to level the playing field and open doors for all children, regardless of race, socio-economic background, or exceptionalities, I am driven to making sure that teachers (and parents) have the technology vision and skills they need to unleash the unlimited potential in their children. We can’t educate [...]