It seems like it’s time. Time to move this blog home with all the other tools and sites and whatnot that I’ve accumulated on this long, strange trip of the last few years. If you’re subscribed through my feedburner feed, you shouldn’t notice a change, at least on the subscription side. If you’re not, perhaps you should change your subscription, as you will no longer receive any posts from me. Then again, maybe you’re okay with that. I’ll keep the Typepad space running for a month or two, just in case you’re a little behind in your reading. The good news is that it’s so easy to move a blog – all of the last three years of posts and comments and conversation is sitting over on the “new” blog. Hope to see you there, too.
We’re getting to a stage in the learning game where we should be thinking about ways to help students create connections to each other and to their learning. Handing students and teacher a device that connects students and serves as a platform for the teaching and learning in a system just makes sense, even though it’s not always a socially or culturally or politically accepted idea. That needs to change. Soon. I feel like the political climate for 1:1 (or even 1:3, or 1:10) continues to improve – but we’re still in a transitional place between analog and digital instruction. I can’t say that the iPhone is THE device – I couldn’t imagine writing anything of substance on the iPhone or any other tool without a reasonable keyboard – but I understand why they featured it, as I do think it’s a game-changer, in terms of its functionality and ease of use. Of course, there are plenty of othergame-changers coming to the table at the moment.
