“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Steve Jobs
How do you view the future of low-tech tools such as desktop publishing software, and is there a worthwhile space for publishing tools in today’s curriculum?
This would have been an easy question, if it weren’t for the word “future“. Pondering what the future of [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 28, 2008
Pondering Desktop Publishing
June 21, 2008
Do schools today kill creativity? (Ken Robinson, TEDTalks)
more about “Do schools today kill creativity? (Ke…“, posted with vodpod
Innovation meets Bureaucracy
For those who become impatient with the glacially slow pace in which the educational system embraces innovation, this video may inspire you. Bureaucracy and innovation seem an unlikely pair. Yet, bureaucracy helps us be efficient. How then, to move [...]
June 15, 2008
Tim Russert (1950-2008) A teacher of journalists
more about “Thirteen/WNET “, posted with vodpod
I heard the news at a dinner party, “Did you hear, Tim Russert is dead?” I was shocked, saddened, in disbelief. The party paused for a moment, and then the conversation continued to buzz around me – summer plans, children, recollections about young adulthood and motorcycles. [...]
June 14, 2008
Sharing the Cognitive Load with Educators
Cognitive Load Theory (J. Sweller) suggests that learning happens best when the way our brain learns is considered during instructional design. All that we have learned resides in our long term memory as independent schemas ready to assist us as we think and problem solve. These long term memory schemas also seamlessly interact [...]
June 13, 2008
To Change or Not to Change
“Be the change that you want to see in the world.” Gandhi
That is the question! I often tell people: I love change! But, that was not the case when confronted with the option to leave my iWeb blog behind. It wasn’t that I had a following on my original blog, [...]
