Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
The old education system could prepare a workforce to work in straight rows, perform repetitive tasks and under supervision. All that has changed. Look at how the office is today and how it has changed an is going to change…. The telephone on the table is redundant to the one we carry in our pocket. [...]
Compare music and books: Music – vibrant, interactive, community, connected. Books are not in most cases. Liberate course materials. Book->Page Shelf->Global Respository Closed->Open Source (Creative Commons) $$$->Free Slow-> Fast Text books can be written and collaborated on and variations of the same material can be shared to avoid duplication. Educators can essentially create a textbook [...]
How can we engage students who struggle with school. EAST uses real world problems that students can get excited about and solve using technology such as GIS/GPS, web-design and video production. It’s integrated into the schedule as an elective course that students may take. The course is driven by student projects, not testing or reading [...]
Case Study – 5500 students, 600 employees, 17,000 Residents What/Why: Internal/External communication, increase participation, time/resource savings, environmental. What is “paperless”? PDFs/CDs? or Online eGovernance (i.e. web-based)? eGovernance – Always Current, Real-Time, Community Access, Sunshine Law compliance BoardDocs – eGovernance vendor. Administrator Reports can be uploaded by administrators directly. Technical Considerations 1. Computer Equipment 10 wireless [...]
- When change clusters at the extremes… “The information revolution is over.” It is now a media revolution. Mass media had moved to personal media. Blogs, Web 2.0. The definition of personal media has changed. – Look Back twice as far as you are looking forward. “History does not repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.” [...]
