I am glad to see that I am not the only one feeling a bit… uneasy?… about how ed tech is going. Brian Lamb and Jim Groom do a good job of articulating some of my concerns and growing fears in this article: Never Mind the Edupunks; or, The Great Web 2.0 Swindle:
We dream of [...]
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18 Aug, 2010
College Professors Striking Back at Technology – With Technology?Posted by: Matt Crosslin In: Pedagogy
You just can’t make this stuff up. Here is the name of a recent article on The Chronicle:
College 2.0: Teachers Without Technology Strike Back
The first thing that any decent intro to educational technology course teaches you is that technology is not just a computer. Chalk boards are technology. Books are technology. “Technology can refer to [...]
Google has a fairly inconsistent record of development when it comes to innovative products. Remember Lively? They pulled the plug on that fast – even though they probably had enough interest and users to keep it going. Now it seems Wave is going the way of Lively.
Or something like that – the official announcement was [...]
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29 Jul, 2010
Will We Go To The Matrix, Or Will The Matrix Come To Us?Posted by: Matt Crosslin In: Virtual Worlds| Web 3.0
Two new patent applications by Apple reveal the possibility that future iPhones will actually record “video or photos and use the information to render an object or location in 3D.” In other words, three-dimensional recording of places and objects. Once you can start recording places and objects on an Internet-enabled device, there will be virtually [...]
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16 Jul, 2010
The Real Problem With Social Networking is That Academics Just Don’t Get ItPosted by: Matt Crosslin In: Social Networking
I have been chewing over the brief article at The Chronicle about how a study found “No Link Between Social-Networking Sites and Academic Performance.”
Eszter Hargittai, associate professor of communication studies and sociology at Northwestern, suggests that the benefits of social-networking sites may cancel out the distractions they pose.
Here is a newsflash people: [...]
08 Jul, 2010
The Point in Education is to Collaborate and Learn, Not Just Buy EveryonePosted by: Matt Crosslin In: Learning Management Systems
The Borg has struck again: this time Elluminate and Wimba are being assimilated. I can’t say that this makes me sad for either of those two companies. I have long held the position that synchronous tools destroys the killer aspect of online learning – it removes the ANY from “any time, any where learning.” But [...]
This quote nails a thought I have been having on the head. Sherry Turkle quoted by Net Gen Skeptic from an interview with Digital Nation:
“I don’t really care what technology wants. It’s up to people to develop technologies, see what affordances the technology has. Very often these affordances tap into our vulnerabilities. I would feel [...]
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