The question of whether we as a global society need to rethink copyright laws is probably the least interesting or controversial part of the current debate. Yes – of course we do. Perhaps the best illustration of why we need to overhaul these laws comes from the US Court case […]
It’s interesting to me how privacy means so many different things to different people. Growing up in a Boston suburb in the 1990s, for me privacy meant having my own room and being able to lock my door. For my parents it meant not being interrupted at dinnertime by telemarketers, […]
Whether we use the term ‘digital footprint’ or ‘digital tattoo’, either way this has become an important piece of learning both in and out of the classroom. Last year, my colleague Michelle and I did a series of workshops with parents about digital citizenship, social media, and helping students control […]
Last week I spoke with one of the MS Humanities teachers at UNIS about their upcoming unit on Africa. Back in the US, I taught two semester-long courses on Africa, one on East Africa and one on West Africa, so it’s a subject that I know a bit about and […]
Every morning at UNIS we read the morning announcements to my homeroom of 23 grade eight students. Today there were no announcements, so I decided to use the time to get feedback from the students about one of our current tech initiatives. This year we decided to give the staff […]
Back in 2005, Marc Prensky wrote in Edutopia that the main barrier to achieving this ‘edutopia’ was the hardware obstacle of getting to 1-1 computing. In Clint Hamada’s presentation at Learning 2.0 in Bangkok, he talked about a new 2:1 initiative at Yokohama International School in which the 7th grade […]