Many of you know that I have gotten very involved in the area of open educational resources (OER) as a tool for differentiating instruction. If you aren’t familiar, OER are materials used for teaching and learning that are free from
Could mobile tech finally be positioned to replace textbooks?
On this blog and elsewhere, I have talked extensively about the need to differentiate instruction, the inefficacy of textbooks in doing that, and the potential of mobile technology to make a huge difference. Recently, the Indiana State Board of Education
Throwing out the textbooks
I presented a keynote a couple weeks ago on Open Education. In talking about the reasons for open ed, I make the following points: We must differentiate instruction if we are going to engage and reach students who have increasingly
New ways to look at content and 1:1
Happy New Year! I haven’t been blogging as much as usual the last month or two because I am up to my ears in a ton of curriculum we’re developing for mobile devices. (THE Journal ran a nice article about
Effectiveness of textbooks?
There have been a lot of discussions in the press and the blogosphere about the USDOE’s “Effectiveess of Reading and Mathematics Software Products” report on a few drill-oriented educational software programs and the findings that their use did not significantly
Textbooks
I went to an interesting speech by the Director of the USDOE’s Office of Education Technology yesterday. In the presentation, he contrasted textbooks and Wikipedia as information resources. He said that textbooks have “authoritative content,” but face “distribution problems.” (