iTeach and iLearn

At the risk of sounding ridiculous...I am grieving a small loss in my life. My faithful clicker that I believe I purchased during my last ye...

I saw this tweet this morning, and boy did this resonate...  I don't think non-teachers understand what teaching remote and in-person s...

I'm teaching a course this semester ambitiously entitled "Teaching and Learning with Technology." It'a actually the...eigh...

A friend of mine is studying to become a teacher. (But she's not one of my students.) :-) She reached out to me recently, asking a que...

In my field of Educational Technology, we sometimes talk about what actually makes a particular tech tool an "educational technology....

I just read this piece from Education Week entitled " Data Dive: Devices and Software Flooding into Classrooms ." I think that the...

The other day I received an email from a recent graduate of our Teacher Preparation Program. He was helping out in a school at home, since C...

Imagine this scene, teachers: You have a colleague down the hall who has been telling you all about this great new educational technolog...

In the current module of the design-based research course I am taking this semester, we have been focusing on three key tasks: design, evalu...

My friend Dan Beerens ( @DanBeerens ) teaches a course in our M.Ed. program , and for the past few years he's asked me to crash his cour...

I tend to take a very broad view of "technology." So often when we hear that word, we immediately go digital: computers, tablets,...

I love animated gifs. Sometimes they just hit your funny bone, right? Like this one, for instance: Even Vader loves pizza. [Scrounged fr...

I believe that storytelling is central to our humanity. We tell stories all the time, from personal histories, to imaginative bedtime storie...

I occasionally get emails or phones calls from friends who are administrators or other school leaders in smaller, private schools. They may ...

I think it's fair to say that the expectations for the school environment--at all levels, from Kindergarten through college--are shiftin...

Back in the spring of 2009, I was serving as Technology Coordinator for a K-8 private school. That job was daunting, and required me to wear...

How many CDs do you still have laying around? It's interesting how educational technologies continue to shift and evolve. I wrote a...

Have you ever seen one of these? Do you know what this is? If you are under the age of 30, you might not. (Ugh...I'm aging myself h...

(This post is part of a series about the weird stuff teachers have in their desk drawers. You can read more about this project  here , and I...

This year I'm serving as an instructional technology coach for my fellow faculty members. It has been interesting getting started on thi...