Active vs Inactive Screen Time
A New York Times article was released this week. How did I find it? Our 23 year old Kindergarten teacher forwarded it to me…
Author: Jeff Utecht
I started blogging in 2005 and found it such a powerful way to reflect and share my thinking about technology, this generation, and how we prepare students for their future not our past.
Tool or Toy? The Blurred Line of a Computer
Andy Torris is back writing again after the New Year’s break and his first blog post about computers being a toy has me wondering…
I Need My Teacher to Learn Music Video
Kevin Honeycutt…..you rock!
Four Strands of an Educational Technology Position
It’s that time of year again in the International Educational world of recruiting fairs and finding your next position. The first fair just ended…
'10 the year of the mobile web
Have you ever seen a cat do one of those really long wonderful stretches after a good nap? Well that’s how I’m feeling now…
Adapting to the digital culture
I’ve been thinking the last couple weeks about the culture of technology. What got me thinking was Kim Cofino’s K12online Pre-Conference Keynote: Going Global:…
Changing journalism classes in high school
Two recent articles and other observations have me thinking about the need to restructure journalism programs or school newspaper programs in our high schools.…
Why do I get a computer?
Over the past couple of days I’ve had one simple question that I can’t get out of my head. Why do we believe that…
Managing Tech in the Classroom
As our fourth COETAIL course (Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy) here at ISB is drawing to a close. The students (33 teachers…
One Bad Twitter 'Tweet' Can Cost you 30 Students
Well….maybe not yet, but in the coming year if you are a private or international school you better be monitoring and using these new…