One-to-One «Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech

Hey Mr. Shareski, look what we got!

I’ll take these kind of interruptions any day. Working in my office, the familiar Skype chat box sound alerts me to someone wanting my attention. It was Matthew, a grade one student in Kathy’s class. He wanted to chat. This is our conversation:

Matthew:
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Me:
I will come over tomorrow [...]

7 year old researchers

I purchased an XO in efforts to consider the possibility of low cost computing and where this might fit into classrooms. I’ve played with it somewhat and was able to do some interesting things but  knew I needed some people better than me to do the real testing and dirty work. Enter Kathy Cassidy and [...]

Are we spoiled?

Today my XO or “$100 laptop” arrived. It brings with it the cool-looks-like-a-Fisher-Price-toy kind of responses from others. I fire it up and without doing anything, I’m online. (Our technicians had issues with the wireless in their office but it worked without even keying in a WEP code here). I take a quick tour and [...]

A Community Walk…Skype Me

This morning I worked with Grade 5 and 6 students who all have a tablet PC. I’ve been talking to them about building networks and wanted to demonstrate mine in meaningful, fun, engaging way.

So I decided to take them on a tour, using some interactive maps and showed them the power of networks, open [...]

What happens when kids want their devices connected?

I’ve blogged about this before and it’s not going away anytime soon. Today Clarence “twitted” this:

That excites me and worries our IT guys. Our IT department is great to work with unlike many of the experiences I hear about. I challenge our IT manager and he challenges me. So upon seeing the twit of Clarence, [...]