Clarence shares this article via my Shared Feed in Google Reader and it spoke to me on many levels. Here’s a parent who, although obviously tech and internet saavy hadn’t realized the power of the internet for his own kids: I’ve written about my kids literally hundreds of times and published dozens of photos of them. But, I’ve always drawn the line...

Paul Park is a high school English teacher in our school division currently serving in Afghanistan. I’ve worked with Paul over the years with a variety of web tools. Just prior to Paul’s leaving last month, he volunteered to spend time in a number of our schools talking to students about his upcoming adventure. Paul wanted to provide an insight into the...

I’ve become quite a strong advocate for downplaying the fear mongering and safety concerns of online life that have been proven false. At the same time, I’ve spent much more time with teachers and classrooms talking about what to watch out for and how to make good choices. I generally see the internet as a public place. I’ve also said as Scott...

Back in December Andrew Baetz, a graduate student and classroom teacher taking Rick Schwier’s 802 EDCMM class at the University of Saskatchewan interviewed me as requirement of this course. It’s interesting that I took this course 5 years ago and had the same assignment: interview a list of Canadian educational technologists. This year I was fortunate to...

I have a Math folder in my Google Reader and it only contains two blogs: One is Darren Kuropatwa, whom I consider one of the finest models of using technology effectively with high school students. The other is Dan Meyer. Dan is a different cat (see this post to get the idea).  That’s part of his appeal but beyond his unique style he pushes my thinking.  I...