Monthly Archives: June 2009

The Hollywood Treatment at NECC

NECC ’09 goes Hollywood with an Oscar-style show featuring digital shorts from teachers and students. And the winner is …

Away from Blogging Until July 1

I’m out of the office on a reporting assignment. Look for posts again on this blog on July 1….

Malcolm Gladwell: Lessons from Fleetwood Mac

So what did Malcolm Gladwell talk about during his keynote speech at NECC? Fleetwood Mac. No, really. Looking closely at the evolution and success of the late 60s rock band can teach us three important points about creating meaningful learning environments, he said.

Defining 21st-Century Learning Spaces

Diane Brook from the Catholic Education Office in Sydney, Australia, outlines how schools should transform their classrooms into 21st-century learning spaces.

Ban or Embrace Cellphones?

The agenda for NECC is chock full of sessions about how to use mobile computing to improve learning, especially through the use of cellphones. But not everyone in the education world is jumping on the mobile computing bandwagon.

Education Week is Off to Cover NECC

A whole team of reporters, editors, Web producers, and photographers from Education Week and Digital Directions is off to the National Educational Computing Conference in Washington this week, so get ready for our full coverage.

Source: Jayson Richardson