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thinking out loud about technology, education and life
recent posts
- Revisiting “Space Space and More Space”: What a Pandemic-Era Learning Spaces Discussion Still Teaches Us in the AI Age
- Is “rigor” just code for “more harder”?
- VUCA Never Left the Building: RebootED Episode 58 Reminds Us Leadership in 2026 Is Still About Navigating the Unnavigable
- 13 Years Later: Daniel Pink’s Insights on Motivation Are More Relevant Than Ever in the AI Era
- 2012 Vision Still Holds: Redefining Public Education in the Age of AI and Perpetual Change
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Author: Andrew T Schwab
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Apparently to some Android fanboys on Google+ I came off sounding like an Apple fan in my last post about the Nexus 7 and the iPad mini. Well, I have been running iOS devices since the iPhone 3 days so yes, I’m a bit entrenched in the iOS ecosystem. (And yes, I shouldn’t let a…
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I’ve been alternating between the iPad mini and Nexus 7 tablet for over a month now and a clear winner has emerged. But first, a note about these two devices as applied to schools. That was the original genesis of my interest in both. Unfortunately, neither device meets the minimum requirements for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing. This…
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Without knowing it, I spent the last nine years preparing my previous district for the future. It was all very much by accident. We decided to embrace thin clients early on. The driver was primarily cost and had no real connection to instruction. We just wanted more computers in more classrooms. As a result of…
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A few Sundays ago I just happened to be within a stones throw of an Apple Store. Long story short, I walked in, hailed down a blue shirt and bought a black 64GB Wifi iPad Mini. On opening weekend, it was all that was left. I paid $529 for it. I immediately took it home,…
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This upcoming Tuesday I start teaching a college course entitled “Computer Technology for Teaching/Learning I”. I have been given a Syllabus outlining the objectives and the person that taught it last has shared his google site with me. Both are fairly open and I could take the class many different directions. My question is, what…
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One of my presentations at CETPA last week was “1,000 Desktop View” and it was all about how I’ve inherited a 1000 VDI desktop environment running VMWare View. At some point I may write a longer post on the topic but for now here are my slides from the presentation and if you’re a school…
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I just finished watching the first season of Continuum and man, do I miss good SciFi. Set aside the fact that the basic plot for the show revolves around time travel (paradoxes be damned!) and I’m reminded of how good science fiction can be at exploring the social issues of the day. Continuum is a canadian produced…
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This weekend, I’ve been recovering from last week’s CETPA annual conference in Monterey. I made it through my four presentations on Wednesday and managed to spend a good amount of time perusing the vendor floor Thursday. What struck me most was the ever so subtle shift of perspective happening in the community. BYOD and 1:1 is just around the corner.…
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Over the last few years I have presented at pretty much every regional CUE conference in central California; from the SV, CC, CV and Fall CUE events to the CUE Rockstar Teacher Tech Camp, I’ve lead sessions on saving IT costs, how to start a podcast and using Google Apps in the classroom to name just a…
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As I watch my friends and colleagues share out their Google Teacher Academy application submissions, I’m reminded of my first and second applications to the GTA. Both times I didn’t put much effort into my Video and both times I didn’t make the cut. On the third try I focused almost entirely on my video and by…
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