While we’ve been busy the past several weeks making final preparations for our 1:1 Tablet PC deployment, several institutions of higher learning have been curtailing (and in some cases outright banning) laptop use in the classroom. The May 19 issue of Newsweek includes Matthew Phillip’s brief article The Laptop Gets Booted:
“The tech revolution [...]

Yesterday I had the opportunity to briefly speak to the parents of our rising seventh graders about the 1:1 Tablet PC program we are implementing this fall. As I outlined our rationale for moving to an “anytime, anywhere” learning environment, I impetuously adapted a line from Sir Ken Robinson and reminded the audience [...]

One of the primary components of our 1:1 Tablet PC implementation is the set of four “themes” that will guide our thinking with respect to curriculum and instruction:

Information Management and Research
Digital Citizenship
Communication and Collaboration in a Global World
Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Design

Information Management and Research provides learners with a unified research strategy. Digital Citizenship [...]

We are in the midst of preparing to implement a 1:1 Tablet PC program in grades 7, 9, and 10. While there has been considerable discussion concerning policies and procedures, the over-arching goal of this initiative is to support teaching and learning. To that end, we are utilizing four “themes” that will guide [...]

A few weeks ago I came across Brad Kellett’s obsoleteskills.com. The website, based on a conversation started by Robert Scoble, is a compilation of skills that are, quite simply, no longer useful. Here’s a sample set from the main page:

Dialing a rotary phone
Putting a needle on a vinyl record
Changing tracks on an eight-track [...]