Recently, I was sharing an opportunity for professional development that staff at our secondary schools will be able to participate in for teaching in a "Bring Your Own Device Classroom." One of the teachers asked a common question that I hear from colleagues, "So you are telling me that now I will need to know how to use all of these devices, not just the ones that the district provides?" My initial response was, "No, it's the student's device, and they are the ones responsible for knowing how to use it." Part of our training is helping to identify the "Device Agnostic" tools that will work on virtually any device. Later that day, while looking through a great slide deck talking about Using Technology to Support Higher Order Skills created and shared with me by Ollie Bray , an educator from Scotland, I ran across this slide: I think it speaks to a growing understanding that in today's world of Web 2.0 and beyond, that...
Ideas and Tips on Digital Age Learning from Michael Walker. These thoughts and ideas may not represent the views of my employer.