tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6725260747128343280Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:20:42 +0000The edu-tech journeySo like a Digital Immigrant is doing the blog-thing. Shriek.http://blogfitz.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (SFFitz)Blogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6725260747128343280.post-8159265515143109311Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:30:00 +00002008-04-28T10:44:22.696-07:00A 9 minute update to the Shift Happens youtube posting that I discussed in a previous posting. I would rate it more effective cause the music is lighter and the narrator less dire sounding! The material presented is cited briefly prior to the start of the presentation, it has far fewer visual images as compared to the previously mentioned posting and at around the 8 minute mark includes 3 http://blogfitz.blogspot.com/2008/04/shift-happens-iii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SFFitz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6725260747128343280.post-4935094242747799816Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:36:00 +00002008-04-28T09:56:59.241-07:00Though I'm leery of yet another youtube video with slightly ominous music, a serious sounding narrator, and data flashed on the screen with dramatic effect, this posting does reinforce the rapid growth of technological implications an applications in a warp speed future. Check it out: Shift Happens. I would be intrigued to hear the rest of this presentation with requisite roundtable discussionshttp://blogfitz.blogspot.com/2008/04/shift-happens.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SFFitz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6725260747128343280.post-8233967416969267421Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:27:00 +00002007-11-29T13:52:55.257-08:00The focus of our readings this week involved the process of scale in applying new knowledge and edu-tech innovations. I found the readings to be quite apt to wrap up coursework in this class considering that we began this conversation or philosophical journey discussing constructivism and have read material on everything from gaming to Web 2.0 to Freeware to Second Life. In addition to reading http://blogfitz.blogspot.com/2007/11/coming-to-scale-with-educational.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SFFitz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6725260747128343280.post-1674016936993290076Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:40:00 +00002007-11-20T19:04:29.362-08:00So alrighty then. I'm about done with this posting for the moment. I've spent the last 20 minutes trying to edit and save my latest post to make my googlepage link not appear as mega-font. So I've diddled around and am thoroughly done diddling. I think this computer may have a bug of some sort as I had issues earlier trying to get the HTML creator button to actually work. I'm going to take http://blogfitz.blogspot.com/2007/11/overdosed-and-frustrated.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SFFitz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6725260747128343280.post-1437229602223458958Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:03:00 +00002007-11-15T14:39:47.022-08:00Soooooo. Last week in class we were enthralled with Deborah Alexander's Second Life presentation. Certainly there are academic applications for students and teachers though there was a genuine creepy element to the whole deal. One of my favorite movies when I was an adolescent starred Charlton Heston in Soylent Green. Perhaps my sensitivity to creepiness as I traveled briefly in Second Life http://blogfitz.blogspot.com/2007/11/fitzs-second-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SFFitz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6725260747128343280.post-1029633828346896306Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:36:00 +00002007-11-08T14:47:06.906-08:00 Of the eleven core competencies discussed in Jenkins report, one jumped out at me-- it was multi-tasking. Jenkins described schools as having taught students to be farmers ( one step following another) rather than hunters (adapting to changing conditions, thinking quickly, responding efficiently). I think students need to be able to be hunters and farmers. More importantly, I think multitasking http://blogfitz.blogspot.com/2007/11/media-literacy-multi-tasking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SFFitz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6725260747128343280.post-8809063044473552070Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:48:00 +00002007-11-01T14:40:37.125-07:00Jay Pfaffman is not only engaging to listen to he's quite provocative when it comes to his thoughts on education and technology. He began a recent post to his blog "...I have been interested in finding ways to make classroom instruction more engaging. Thinking that hobbyists are the perfect example of life-long learners, I did some surveys to see if there are particular things that make all http://blogfitz.blogspot.com/2007/11/jay-pfaffman-is-not-only-engaging-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SFFitz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6725260747128343280.post-4492706279663580985Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:33:00 +00002007-10-25T13:50:46.893-07:00I think the Bryan Alexander article, though densely written, did a terrific job defining Web 2.0 for a mainstream audience. His discussion and description of microcontent, folksonomies, RSS feeds, and ARGs (alternate reality games) was both informative and provocative.He spent a considerable amount of time on social networking and the profusion of them on the Web. An interesting tangential http://blogfitz.blogspot.com/2007/10/web-20-ichats-and-other-ponderables.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SFFitz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6725260747128343280.post-2746874425194241804Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:43:00 +00002007-10-11T14:02:00.200-07:00The article by Sprague and Dede did a solid --though at times a bit hokey--job presenting the contrasts betwixt a Constructivist classroom and a more traditional classroom.I was struck by the fictional principal feeling more secure and comfortable observing the teacher who had given the same lecture on the same day for nine consecutive years. I think this is the challenge of Constructivist http://blogfitz.blogspot.com/2007/10/is-it-really-teaching-if-students-are.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SFFitz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6725260747128343280.post-4118031640876599044Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:56:00 +00002007-10-07T20:11:32.587-07:00I may be "misremembering" (to twist a term ala our Decider-in-Chief) yet when I contemplate the technology-education revolution I can't help but think about the Chinese script character that means both challenge and opportunity. (Or perhaps I've blurred a slogan from a motivational poster.) Regardless-- I am struck by the daunting nature of the challenges and opportunities that face individual http://blogfitz.blogspot.com/2007/10/chinese-for-challenge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SFFitz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6725260747128343280.post-3058695959379268944Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:48:00 +00002007-09-20T12:44:52.290-07:00I'm discovering that blogs can be an asset in the classroom especially at the post-secondary level. I'm also impressed with their relative ease of creation and maintenance. I read somewhere that as a result of the creation of some many millions of new blogs in the last several years that the average blog has one reader. Just a factoid to keep every blogger "who wants to make it big"mired in http://blogfitz.blogspot.com/2007/09/from-blogs-to-semantic-networking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SFFitz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6725260747128343280.post-4709267798903417436Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:49:00 +00002007-09-20T12:44:08.606-07:00The edu-tech journeyI'm desperately in need of doing some window blogging to get a better visual of the various looks and purposes of the edu-blogs on the course web-site.I am definitely a visual learner in that I need to see models in order to better understand the how, why, and what of techno-tasks.I'm also struggling with what I perceive to be my own inefficiencies as far as the amount of time I spent diddling http://blogfitz.blogspot.com/2007/09/quandry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SFFitz)1