The China Education Question: Innovation?
Facebook wants to get into China. Or, at least that’s what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has led us to think. On a recent visit to China, he declared, “If you want to connect the whole world, how can...
View ArticlePlaying Video Games Can Change The World – Marketplace
Interesting story on Marketplace. Interview with author Jane McGonigal on her new book Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better And How They Can Change The World.
View ArticleInfowhelm and Information Fluency – YouTube
A look at the digital white water rapids coming at us. Powerful snap shot.
View ArticleChildren and Social Media – My Letter in The New York Times
Check out my letter in The New York Times on children and social media. From The New York Times: LETTER: Children and Social Media A response to an article about children creating fake identities online.
View ArticleTeaching The UCLA YouTube Controversy – Think Before You Post
Think before you post. No doubt former UCLA student Alexandra Wallace has learned this valuable lesson. Her ill-timed, insensitive rant on You Tube, in which she slammed Asian-American students for...
View ArticleThe Digital Gaffe
The Digital Gaffe There is no shortage of resources to tap into to address and teach digital citizenship to students these days. Not a day passes when a headline does not jump off the front pages of...
View ArticleIs Reality Broken? “The Search For Friends To Take Into Reality?”
I had the good fortune of hearing Swedish mystery writer Henning Mankell speak this past weekend. I’ve devoured all of his books and am just beginning his last Inspector Wallender book, The Troubled...
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