Mark’s blog is edtechlife.com www.dimenxian.com a video game for learning algerbra What is Hard Fun? This kid called the work fun because it was hard rather than in spite of being hard.” (Seymour Papert) How do we make writing become hard fun? (Papert) Work is fun because it is hard John Dewey Experience and Education Democracy and Education Experimental Schools […]

Tim Wilson of the technosavvy.org site invited me to have a conversation about China and the state of blogging there as part of his technosavvy podcast he did live Thursday night. If you get a chance have a listen. The first part of the podcast is Sonny Portacio talking about geocaching which was a great conversation as well. Thanks Tim […]

25+ million kids blogging online We listened to Matthew Bischoff from www.matthewbischoff.com a 13 year old podcaster from 2004. We looked at Tess Will’s daughter’s weather book on flickr where 1000 people have viewed her book. building networks with these read/write tools is what students are already doing, why are we not using it in the classroom? It’s about imagination. […]

I took about 30 minutes out of my schedule to walk through the exhibition hall and I have to say that I was quite sad. To see the amount of money that was being spent trying to persuade educators at all levels to buy this thing or that thing. Laptops were a huge thing as HP, Dell, Apple, Toshiba, and […]

Thornburg starts the session by giving a point for his new book. Might have to pick that up after the session. A book on open-source and open-source programs. Linux started from a high school student in Helsinki, Finland “I want students to use the programs they will use when they leave school.” and argument that has fueled the Mac vs […]

I was going to write my thoughts on Nicholas Negroponte’s keynote this morning, but found Julie Lindsay who moblogged it and did a really great job. Read her post here for a great review. Make sure to check out www.laptop.org for more on the $100 laptop. technorati tags:necc, necc06, Nicholas Negroponte Blogged with Flock

My last session on Wednesday was watching the production of the Ed Tech Coast to Coast show. A podcast that I listen to on a regular basis. Tim Wilson, Tim Lauer, Will Richardson, Tom Hoffman, and Steve Burt sat down and talked about a number of topics as well as take some questions from the audience. The Episode has been […]

David Warlick-Telling a New Story Originally uploaded by jutecht. A picture I took of David getting all worked up about his new stories.

Pretty good room full for David’s Telling the New Story session. I’d say there’s probably 125 or so here. David starts the presentation by showing a video of an elephant jumping on a trampoline. Stating can we train education to do this referring to training the elephant to jump on the trampoline. David shows us the handout blog he has […]

Dewitt Jones: First can I say how HUGE this conference hall is! Five large screens giving late comers like me sitting way in the back a great view via a screen. Dewitt’s motivational speech was great, of course the beautiful pictures that he had to help tell his story were great as well. Dewitt’s message was simple. Push yourself to […]