Learning & Education Articles
HP is title sponsor of the Net Gen Education Challenge
May 6, 2010
I’m pleased to announce HP as the title sponsor of the two global video challenges I announced in March. The HP Net Gen Education Challenge calls for ideas to shape the future of education and the HP MacroWikinomics Challenge calls for ideas on how to fix what's wrong...
Children a key element of National Broadband Strategy
Mar 26, 2010
The Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Strategy is an ambitious ten-year plan to bring the benefits of broadband to all citizens in the country. Just prior to the Strategy's submission to Congress last week, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski gave a...
Net Gen Education Challenge underway
Mar 13, 2010
I’m delighted to say that I’ve again joined with Vicki Davis (Westwood Schools, USA) and Julie Lindsay (Beijing (BISS) International School, China) to issue two global video challenges on how the social web nurtures teaching, learning, collaboration, and innovation...
Teaching kids democratic values
Mar 4, 2010
Teaching democratic values and the importance of civic responsibility doesn’t seem to be particularly strong in the school system. However, given that so many schools cling to an outdated education model, I don't find fault with many kids for ending up apathetic. It’s...
Using social media to keep students engaged
Feb 25, 2010
“Lack of engagement is one of the biggest problems we have today in getting more students through the college and university system,” says Vineet Madan, vice president of strategy and business development for McGraw-Hill. “If we don’t tackle the engagement problem...
“Bottom up” approach is better than a “top down”
Feb 23, 2010
Some schools have been disappointed with the seemingly small gains made by students when IT technology such as laptops have been introduced to the classroom. But as I have been writing for years, proper IT planning involved much more than simply throwing technology...
We need better broadband, and soon.
Feb 19, 2010
The power of the Internet. In the small town of Diller, Nebraska, Blue Valley Meats doubled its employees and saw 40 percent growth by setting up a Web site and selling its beef online. But this happened only after Diller got broadband. Which is why the Recovery Act...
Innovating the 21st-century university
Feb 5, 2010
In the current issue of EDUCAUSE Review, Anthony D. Williams and I have a 6,000-word essay discussing the urgent issues facing universities, that left unresolved, would see intuitions of higher learning going into a death spiral akin to what we see happening to...
It's important to remember the Internet's roots
Jan 3, 2010
As the second decade of the new millennium begins, a major issue that will increasingly confront governments is whether the Internet is becoming so integral to day-to-day life that access to the Internet should be considered a basic human right. The governments of...