Full Tilt Into Design Thinking

This past week I was lucky enough to participate in four days of Design Thinking workshops given by the University of Kentucky DLab (ukydlab) director John Nash. In addition to myself, the people who participated in these four days were; Stacy Stephens (curriculum...

Are Digital HOTS Worth The Time They Take?

-Is all of this experimentation with how to use technology in the classroom helping my students learning, or hindering it? -Are these time-consuming synthesizing tech “projects” the best way for students to learn? -To what degree is the time-investment in product...

Geeks Unite!

3 weeks and counting… Reading through Living and Learning with New Media (2008), and about the final stage or level of participation, “Geeking Out”, I began to wonder if I had ever reached ‘geekdom’ with anything I had particpated in....

You’ve Just Been Drafted…

Using Twitter without TweetDeck lists was akin to what one might experience in “lines” or “cues” in certain unnamed countries (I’m sure you can imagine which ones): spatial and self-absorbed chaos. My Twitter feed was dominated by those line members who were loudest,...

In a World of Chaos…

…how do we know what is real? Moving on to the article on Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age (2004) what really stood out to me was how Siemens discusses the new chaotic manner in which learning now occurs. Including technology and connection...