Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer prize winner and columnist of The New York Times, published an intriguing article in the beginning of 2013 about a situation he called “The Great Inflection”. Friedman argues that the world has evolved from connected into...
The New Media Consortium (NMC), which is an international community of experts in educational technology, has recently identified five pressing “wicked challenges” that are vital to the future of education. According to Koehler and Mishra (2008), wicked...
Looking back at my Middle School classes, I have vague memories of an elective entitled “computer class”, that totaled one period a week, two heads per PC. Back in 1994, that was how a small private school in Southern Brazil went about the technology trend. Twenty...
If a stranger were to examine my info diet, I wonder what reactions they would have to my very eclectic selections. Like most people I know, I spend considerable amounts of time glancing at my devices in search of information, from professional advice to personal big...
According to the National Center for Learning Disabilities, a learning disability (LD) is anything that will create a gap between “a person’s level of expected achievement and their performance.” These impairments can be detected fairly early with young learners, as...
