Why Prudence Is (Sometimes) Not Prudent: The Trouble With Too Much Substitution

Over the past three decades of work in education, I’ve seen technology projects that thrive in what might be seen as the least promising starting environments. By the same token, though, I’ve also seen projects that were well-funded and well supported, with excellent IT staff and solid technical professional development, come to a standstill, collapse, … Continue reading Why Prudence Is (Sometimes) Not Prudent: The Trouble With Too Much Substitution

Assembling the Puzzle: Five Tech Pieces for Education

A three-day workshop, offered as part of the MLTI 2013 Summer Institute: To achieve transformative results in one-to-one technology initiatives, a basic office suite will not suffice. Based upon a decade of research from the Horizon Project, we can identify five software categories that must be available to students and teachers for top-tier outcomes to … Continue reading Assembling the Puzzle: Five Tech Pieces for Education

Slides from BETT 2012

The slides from my presentations and workshops at BETT 2012 are now online: What Does Success Look Like? Game-Based Learning SAMR: Guiding Development Tools For Redefinition: Roles as Teachers, Roles as School Leaders As always, my thanks go out to everyone who participated in these sessions – I thoroughly enjoyed our discussions.