I keep hearing about this survey of teen iPhone use all over the tech press..and I don't believe it. I don't believe any any survey until I read the methodology but this is off. Not sure 84% of US teens own a smart phone. That seems high. Furthermore the students I work with are mainly Android. They may want an iPhone but the can't afford it.
I wont be in a place to pay my LRA dues until I teach some summer classes. If folks see any interesting #literacies or #lra18 emails on listserv please forward to me. I still argue LRA should move to a "member recruitment" model and not a "member benefit" model. We should allow everyone to see listserv.
The same is true for the skills employers are so desperate to develop at #ASUGSV2018. The most common I here, "Your kids can't use Excel." I also heard that back when they yelled at us n middle school for not knowing Lotus Notes. Really that's my job? To teach spreadsheets? That's what you want students speding 50k a year on? I can teach a student to read yo
I wish all this talk about CBE and skills at #ASUSGSV2018 would take a lesson from 30 years of reading research and realize teaching skills does little without knowledge. We know we can teach decoding that's easy. Doesn't make a better reader alone.
I wish all this talk about CBE and skills at #ASUSGSV2918 would take a lesson from 30 years of reading research and realize teaching skills does little without knowledge. We know we can teach decoding that's easy. Doesn't make a better reader alone.
I am sitting in my car waiting for a break in rain to run inside. Hard to believe schools had two hour delays for ice. Come on spring. Come on spring... It is spring break for my kids
@aaronpk I am helping a functional glass artist collective move to an #indieweb model. Currently installed have no website with no e-commerce solution. Everything runs through Instagram, word of mouth, and PayPal. I am thinking static web (page builder using whatever credit card PoS they have) and a micro.blog until Instagram takes away unofficial API. Think
Listening to @amywebb @jasonhiner and @ltutterentine on @twit predicting the ne t wave of computing. In the list of ten companies sheparding in AI @mozilla was not mentioned. MoCo will never have the resources of those mentioned but there are ethical choices people can make now. We also need to reconnect #highered and the future of the web. Let's make the da
My original idea for my next #indieweb project was to set up micro.blog and a reader for my students... But I need to get my own house in order before building the village.
Not sure if anyone else is thinking about how #indieweb compatible technologies can help #OER and #GoOpen but here is a great California grant opportunity. https://www.asccc.org/sites/default/files/IV.%20B.%20%282%29%20CCCOERI%20Proposal%20Draft%20-%20January%209%202018.pdf