ZDNet | Education IT Blog RSS http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/rss en-us <![CDATA[Another new adventure: So you wanna be a leader?]]> It’s time that teachers learned to stop selling themselves short. Announcing some very cool professional (and personal) development!

]]> <![CDATA[Coursera: The new face of higher education? [Video]]]> Kirsten Winkler and I interviewed the founders of Coursera late last week; the two hd

]]> <![CDATA[More video for you: Ed News Ticker and the money game in education]]> Video from my new bi-weekly wrapup of interesting ed tech stories with Kirsten Winkler

]]> <![CDATA[Tablets in education (Video)]]> Most Wednesdays, I run a live webinar on WizIQ, usually on some ed tech-related topic. I tend not to post the recordings here since there is definitely a commercial element to them (I wouldn’t be much of an evangelist for the company if there wasn’t). However, this week’s webinar ended up being a pretty good [...]

]]> <![CDATA[Adobe nails the value question with Creative Cloud and announces scholarships to boot]]> Adobe released important research on the value of creativity worldwide; at the same time, they put their money where their mouth is, making Adobe’s Creative Suite much more affordable for schools and students.

]]> <![CDATA[Battle Royale: Sports vs. Tech - who should win?]]> The athletic director for our local school district recently took some heat for the sad state of our high school’s track. It was, in fact, some well-justified heat. While you could never tell it from my ever-widening profile (not my Facebook profile or my digital reach, but my physical profile), I ran track in high [...]

]]> <![CDATA[The Intel Studybook: What an education tablet should be]]> I can almost smell the holy grail…the right hardware, the right ecosystem, the right price. Intel has hit a home run with its Studybook.

]]> <![CDATA[Video: Talking about rote memorization vs. understanding with iGeneration's Charlie Osborne]]> Last Friday, I had the chance to chat with our own Charlie Osborne, who writes the iGeneration blog here on ZDNet. We talked about her recent post on “The future of education: Memorize or analyse?” on my weekly Edukwest C12 webcast:

The full episode (episode 3) will be available shortly (including the Blog of the Week [...]

]]> <![CDATA[Dell's Wyse and Sonicwall acquisitions: Good news for schools]]> Will HP, Apple, Lenovo, and the other major OEMs step up to match Dell’s growing edu ecosystem? And, btw, thin clients are so not dead.

]]> <![CDATA[My new weekly show for K12 educators]]> More webcasts for you!

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