Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Pushing the envelope
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 18, 2009
When I read the BBC news article Great writers ‘fail’ online test, I was not surprised. Why? Two reasons.
First, one of the writing samples was actually a speech. Writing for a speech is not the same as writing for print. Yes, you are writing a speech, but not for someone to read like a book. [...]
Google Apps in schools
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 24, 2009
Two days ago, I tweeted MOE’s press release on how all schools here were adopting cloud computing in the form of Google Apps. I thought that was wonderful news.
What do other people think of it? Chris Dawson who is far away in Massachusetts and a fan of Google Apps seemed pleased for us, but he [...]
Broadband divide
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 3, 2009
Yesterday a writer at Ars Technica asked How wide is the world’s digital divide, anyway? More specifically, the writer was wondering about the penetration rates of broadband in various countries. In a survey of 127 countries:
only 10 countries are above 80 percent—mostly small places like Hong Kong, Singapore, Denmark, and South Korea. Together, the ten [...]
Reasons for hating technology
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 18, 2009
I love this open letter to the teacher who said “I hate technology”. But I think that the “sarcasm” is lost on the type of people who have an uninformed loathing for change.
Looking down the road
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 6, 2009
One of the tasks I gave my teacher trainees this coming e-learning week is to watch the iN2015 video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibCL4rmAWGA
Someone else made this video available on YouTube, but I don’t know if this has been officially sanctioned, so go to the source above if the YouTube version disappears.
But along comes Microsoft and they too have a [...]
Luddite schools
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 6, 2008
A recent blog entry by Dawson on what he called luddite schools drew quite a lot of responses. Most of it seemed to be flak.
Dawson mentioned how he could have sent his youngest child to a private school nearby but instead favoured the public school system. His rationale:
the private school, like many of its ilk, [...]
In the news
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 5, 2008
I barely read the paper version of newspapers because there is so much more news and views freely available on the Web. One rag I do read is Digital Life, a weekly extra of the Straits Times that has a technology focus.
In page 14 of today’s copy (5 Aug 08), a journalist reported on the [...]
Technology illiteracy is a sin?
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 31, 2008
What does it take to win Edublog awards for the “most influential post” or the “best group blog” in 2007? Here are two examples.
I found Terry Freedman, who wrote in his Techlearning blog:
“All educators must achieve a basic level of technological capability.”
“People who do not meet the criterion of #1 should be embarrassed, not proud, [...]
