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Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Thursday, August 18, 2016

This is What's Wrong with Tech Articles

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GreatSchools has an article about evaluating the effectiveness of technology in your child's school. Just like most such articles, it ...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

We Don't Need Educational Bells and Whistles

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Among the many reasons education reform is stalled, one of the most prominent must be the appeal of adding bells and whistles to a broken-do...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Smart Phones, Or Why Teachers Resent Education Research

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It is not that teachers resent all research. But an extended advertisement posing as research? Or administrators mandating teachers implem...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Expensive Useless Education Technology

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While preparing a post on state-of-the-art language labs in schools, I came across this piece about interactive white boards (IWB). Our so...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Cellphones the New Calculators?

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Dear ---, As I understand your research proposal, it sounds like you are collecting an anthology of ways to use the IPhone as an instruction...
Monday, July 6, 2009

The Education Train May Have Left the Station

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The education train may have left the station, leaving traditional educators still groping their way blindly to the platform. New, innovati...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The Limits of Educational Software

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So if you control for the variables you know help students achieve, your study of (fill in the blank) shows no significant gain due to (fill...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Technology has Betrayed Education

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Technology was supposed to revolutionize education. Schools went for technology in a big way. Technology, for most schools, meant computer...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

The Misplaced Fascination with Technology

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Educators are fascinated with technology, particularly calculators. Randall Charles, in the May/June 1999 issue of Math Education Dialogues ...