Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Tapscott video


When I was considering this digital world for the first time, one of the most influential books (yes print book!) I read was Don Tapscott's Growing Up Digital(1998). It changed everything for me as a teacher and began the journey that I am still on. Tapscott has written several other books, including, The Digital Economy(1996), Blueprint to The Digital Economy(1998),>Digital Capital(2000), Wikinomics(2006), and Macrowikinomics(2010). They make for a facinating body of work which I found to be right on the money. They also support a video he just posted on YouTube which I have embedded here.



Let me know what you think.

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Monday, July 18, 2011

An Interveiw with Shelly Blake Plock-Teachpaperless

An interesting conversation with a paperless digital pioneer:



DFG is back:)
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

"Do teachers suck

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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Is it time for gaming in schools

This article appeared in the Harvard Business Review and I will let it speak for itself. I am a gamer pure and simple. I think it is a better model of learning!

When Will Educators Get Serious About Gaming
by Bruce Dickson
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A Blueprint for change...


"A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and finally, furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known. Such a system would require the application of constitutional guarantees to education. Learners should not be forced to submit to an obligatory curriculum, or to discrimination based on whether they possess a certificate or a diploma. Nor should the public be forced to support, through regressive taxation, a huge professional apparatus of educators and buildings which in fact restricts the public's chances for learning to the services the profession is willing to put on the market. It should use modern technology to make free speech, free assembly, and a free press truly universal and, therefore, fully educational"

-Ivan Illich