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New Book: What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies

I’m honored to have a chapter I authored on integrating digital video production in the classroom published in the just-released hardcover book, What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media edited by Scott McLeod and Chris Lehman. The other chapters are written by  several of the educational technologists whom I’ve come to …

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Should Kindergarteners Use iPads?

Much fuss has been made on Twitter recently about schools, such as one  in Auburn, Maine,  giving iPads to all students in kindergarten with former Assistant Secretary of Education, Diane Ravitch (@dianeravitch) exclaiming on Twitter that she hoped the kindergarteners would break the iPads and that the students should be out playing instead of using …

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