Educational Technology and Change Journal

[Published 1 Apr. 2011]
Rose & Smith Associates, Inc.

I’ve been involved in online education since the mid ’90s when I first began defining and building a method of creating online learning communities online. I helped envision, create, and administer the first virtual high school in the country. I had been a pioneer in the use of computers in education and raised concerns about equity in technology use early in the education technology movement. I work with college and university programs, policy-makers, and leaders in online learning from non-profit organizations and institutions. I have helped shape the nature of e-learning efforts in the country. I support the radical transformation of US education.

ETC Publications

Computational Thinking, Computational Science and High Performance Computing in K-12 Education: White Paper on 21st Century Education with Henry Neeman, Bonnie Bracey Sutton, and Vic Sutton

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[Published 1 Apr. 2011]

“Dr. Henry Neeman is the Director of the OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research and an adjunct assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma. . . . In addition to his own teaching and research, Dr. Neeman collaborates with dozens of research groups, applying High Performance Computing techniques in fields such as numerical weather prediction, bioinformatics and genomics, data mining, high energy physics, astronomy, nanotechnology, petroleum reservoir management, river basin modeling and engineering optimization. . . . Dr. Neeman’s research interests include high performance computing, scientific computing, parallel and distributed computing and computer science education” (Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2011).

ETC Publications

Computational Thinking, Computational Science and High Performance Computing in K-12 Education: White Paper on 21st Century Education with Raymond Rose, Bonnie Bracey Sutton, and Vic Sutton

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Educational Support Specialist
Library & Learning Resources (Reference)
Kapi’olani Community College Library
Coordinator, SOS (Secrets of Success) college success workshops
inaba@hawaii.edu

ETC Publications

256GB Flash Drives – How Will They Impact Education?

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Associate, Thornburg Center for Professional Development
Web bio

I’m a freelance journalist with extensive international experience and an interest in finding ways to tackle the international digital divide.

ETC Publications

Using the CRA to Promote Digital Equity: May 14-15, 2019
Levering Technology to Empower Learning for All
School Safety and Technology Briefing 10/9/18
Indigenous People’s Curriculum Day and Teach-In 9/10/18
‘Computers for Kids’ SWNA, Washington, DC
Immersed in Virtual Reality: iLRN June 2018
Latinos in Science and Technology (LISTA)
Digital Equity and Social Justice
U.S.-Russian Collaboration
Geography? T3G…ESRI in Education
Cyberlearning Summit 2014: A Quick Recap
GIS Can Transform Learning: Bracey Sutton at SITE.org AACE Conference
Idit Harel Caperton – An Interview at the Edge of Change

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James Allen Dator, PhD

Positions Currently Held:
– Head of the Alternative Futures Option in the Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i-Manoa
– Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
– Former president of the World Futures Studies Federation.
– Co-chair of the Space and Society Division of the International Space University headquartered in Strasbourg, France
– Fellow and Executive Committee Member of the World Academy of Art & Science.
– Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture and in the Public Administration Program at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa

Click here to visit his website.

ETC Publications

Next Generations: Reactives to Civics to Adaptives, as Foreseen by an Old Adaptive

[This brief bio was first published on this site on 10.09.10.]

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Chief Academic Officer at GlobalScholar
GlobalScholar, Inc., Greeley, CO
wzaggle@globalscholar.com

B.S. Texas A&M University
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Transitioned to a new leadership role after selling Excelsior Software to GlobalScholar in early 2008.  I have continued to offer domain knowledge and direction to all departments in adapting to the educational software industry. The challenges that face education today are enormous and the personal challenge of continuing to find the ingenuity and insight to solve even a few of them was too great to walk away from after 22 years. Always seeking pathways for change, I have a passion for bringing reality to the research of new learning opportunities. I am currently proud to continue this work with GlobalScholar and their current mission to empower the world to learn.

A founding partner of Excelsior Software, Inc. — Excelsior boasts the first Windows based electronic gradebook in 1991, the first home-school network connections showing real-time student progress in 1993, the first web based parent portal with real-time student grades in 1996, and the first enterprise level implementation of a gradebook in a single school district with over 20,000 teachers.  Currently, Excelsior works with educators in nearly 1,000 districts nationwide.

Researcher, Instructor, at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX — Developed leading graphics database techniques and applications, plus the fundamental methods for teaching computer graphics concepts.  Taught basic engineering thinking and communication skills.  Maintained a large mainframe computer graphics facility.  Oppenheimer award winner for best computer graphics design concepts in 1978-79.  Lead investigator on large scale CAD workstation concepts utilizing PC based platforms.  Assisted with database analysis on NASA research into shuttle tile vulnerability and fuel tank over-icing solutions.  Authored several works on computer graphics and graphics database management.

ETC Publications

The Arts Are Critical for Whole-Brain Learning
The Rise of Informal Knowledge and the Teacher’s Evolving Role
What Is Your Mental Model for 21st Century Education?
Assessment 2.0 on the Horizon
We Need to Blend, First, to Transition to Online Learning
Educational Engineers: The Missing Link in Innovation

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Dr. Stefanie Panke
Editor, Social Software in Education
Instructional Analyst
School of Government
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3330, Knapp-Sanders Building
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3330
Tel: 919.962.0592
Fax: 919.962.2707
panke@sog.unc.edu
www.sog.unc.edu
http://panke.web.unc.edu/

Stefanie is the lead instructional designer at UNC School of Government on the Instructional Support team, providing instructional design consultation and guidance for faculty and teaching professionals as well as project management for instructional technology initiatives. Prior to her current position at UNC, she served as Director of E-Learning at Ulm University, Germany. In 2010-2011, Stefanie joined the Institute of Psychology and Education at Ulm University, where she implemented university-wide e-learning projects, consulted with faculty, and taught courses on instructional design, computer mediated communication and webnography. In 2009, she received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Bielefeld with a thesis on the information design of educational websites. From 2008 to 2010 Stefanie lived in Austin, TX, where she worked as a freelance e-learning consultant and conducted research on instructional design projects at St. Edward’s University. From 2003 to 2008 she worked with the academic staff of the Knowledge Media Research Center in Tuebingen, Germany, an interdisciplinary institute for research on educational technology. During this time, her team developed an award-winning portal on e-learning in higher education (e-teaching.org), and Stefanie lectured media psychology courses at Neu-Ulm University. Stefanie serves as a member of several conference program committees (ED-MEDIA, E-LEARN, SITE, ECEL), as a reviewer for e-journals (MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Digital Humanities Quarterly) and as editor for social software at the Educational Technology and Change Journal (ETC).

ETC Publications

Remote Proctoring Services: An Interview with PSI Bridge’s Rory McCorkle
CFE 2015 Faculty Showcase at UNC: ‘Teaching Less in More Depth’
New Instructional Design Association in Higher Ed: An Interview with Camille Funk
Wearable Tech on your Preschooler? Technology Education and Innovation for Children
Practical Reasoning – Challenges for Teaching and Assessment
Who Dat? It’s E-Learn 2014! Come, Learn, Share, Connect
SoTL Commons 2014 in Savannah: ‘Teaching Without Learning Is Just Talking’
Oppia: Google’s New, Free E-Learning Tool
#ToRead: ‘It’s Complicated’
New AACE Special Interest Group on ‘Assessing, Designing and Developing E-Learning (ADD)’
ISSOTL 2013: ‘Doing SoTL Means You Never Have to Say You’re Sorry!’
A Conversation with Curtis Ho: AACE E-Learn SIG on Designing, Developing and Assessing E-Learning
10th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference at Elon University: Cutting Edge Without Being Trendy
Stone Soup with Curt Bonk: Armchair Indiana Jones in Action
Time Out at TCC 2013: How Social Media Saved the Day
CFHE 2012 Impressions: My Bumpy Start to a MOOC on Future Trends in Higher Ed – ’505 Unread Discussion Messages’
Teaching and Learning Conference at Elon University: Technology As a Prop – Not at Center Stage with Rob Moore and Greg Whisenhunt
Mahalo TCC 2012: I Have a New Badge Backpack!
An Interview with the 2012 Global TIME Program Chair Theo Bastiaens
AACE Online Conference 2012: The Challenge of Finding TIME
‘Schema Automation Can Kill You!’ – A Review of EARLI 2011 in Exeter (UK)
A Student’s View of an Open University: An Interview with Billy Sichone
Julia Kaltenbeck: How Crowdfunding and Social Payments Can Finance OER
Open Learning at P2PU: An Interview with Jessica Ledbetter
Obrigada Lisboa! ED-MEDIA 2011 Conference or ‘This Is Your Tribe’
Open Educational Resources – An Invitation to Reflect Your Practice
ETC Nominated for Edublog Awards: Polls Open Until Dec. 14
PLENK 2010: Summary of Week 7-10 – The End
Review: iTunes U 2010 Conference in Munich, Oct 13-14
PLENK 2010, Weeks 4-6: Learning Theories, Evaluation and Literacies
‘Web XXO’ – Week Three of PLENK2010 on Emerging Technologies
PLENK2010: Week 2 – Personal Learning & Institutional Learning or ‘A Great Course in Diagram Making’!
PLENK 2010: Just Like ‘Watching Football’
IADIS 2010 – The Gateway to the Black Forest Becomes a Window to E-Learning
Making Sense of Social Networks: An Interview with Zizi Papacharissi
Do You Speak Livemocha? An Interview with Clint Schmidt
Social Networking for Academics: An Interview with Ijad Madisch, CEO of ResearchGATE
Social Networking: Weaving the Web of Informal Ties
Picture the Story: E-Comics as Teaching Tool
Patterns in the Design of Ed Media: An Interview with Christian Kohls
‘Please Prepare for Cross Check’: A Review of ‘Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities’
Meet the Endless Summer – A Review of ED-MEDIA 2009

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Emeritus Professor
University of Hawai’i
Kapi’olani Community College
Honolulu, Hawaii USA

Dr. Bert Y. Kimura is semi-retired and splits his time between Hawai’i and Japan. He teaches, part-time, educational technology classes at University of Hawai’i Manoa and will be teaching an “ICT for learning” class at Kansai University this fall (2010). He also teaches oral communications and special topics classes in English to native Japanese speakers. He serves as a consultant in educational technology and distance learning and is actively engaged in research on ubiquitous learning technologies, electronic portfolios, and Internet based communication tools.

He coordinates the TCC Online Conference, a worldwide online conference for 700-900 professors, librarians, information technology support specialists, administrators and student services personnel. This conference, conducted annually entirely online, highlights issues, challenges, directions and the use of the Internet in online learning, as well as in “hybrid” face-to-face classes (http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu).

He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hawai’i, Kapi’olani Community College (KCC) where he served as chair of the Information, Media & Technology Services (IMTS) department. Currently, he also serves as a Faculty Consultant & Lecturer for the Educational Technology Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Education. At KCC, he previously coordinated KITE, Kapiolani’s Information Technology Emphasis, a campus-wide initiative to integrate information technology across the curriculum. He is a past president of the Hawai’i 4-H Alumni Association, a group affiliated with the UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.

IMTS provided campus-wide technical support and services to faculty and staff to enhance and improve the quality of student learning. IMTS staff provided a wide range of services including printing and duplication, computer and audiovisual equipment repair, distance learning, instructional development, academic computing, data network and telecom management, server administration, and technology workshops for faculty and staff.

Dr. Kimura served as campus representative to WCET, the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications, and CCUMC, the Consortium of College and University Media Centers. He served on the League for Innovation’s Microsoft/Compaq Community College Advisory Council.

He has also worked closely with Hawaii’s teachers and secondary schools. He served as advisory board member and higher education partner with the Aiea High School complex in the School-to-Work Opportunities initiative and as advisory board member for Moanalua High School’s Media Communications Learning Center.

ETC Publications

TCC 2021 Call for Proposals – Deadline 12/21/20
Skype As an Alternative to Zoom
TCCfx 2018 (Dec 10), a Complimentary Mini-Online Conference
TCC Online Conference 2019: Call for Proposals
Remote Proctoring Services: An Interview with PSI Bridge’s Rory McCorkle
TCC 2018: Call for Participation
Institutional Initiatives in Digital Credentials
TCC Worldwide Online Conference 2018: Call for Proposals
TCC 2017 Worldwide Online Conference April 18-20
TCC 2017 Free Pre-conference Mar 15 – Registration Deadline Mar 9
TCC Online Conference: Proposal Call Deadline 5 Jan. 2017
Join us for the TCC 2016 Worldwide Online Conference
Unpack CBE: TCC 2016 Free Pre-conference Webinar March 16 at 2pm HST
TCC 2016 : Special Pre-conference Interactive Webinar Feb. 25
TCC 2016: Extended Deadline for Proposals (23 Dec)
‘Towards a European Perspective on Massive Open Online Courses’
TCCfx: Free Online Mini-Conference for Students & Faculty 28 Oct 2015
TCC Worldwide Online Conference 2016 Apr 19-21 – Call for Proposals
TCC Online Conference 20th Anniversary – Final Call for Registration
Register for TCC 2015 – The Future Is Now
Registration for TCC 2014 Is Now Open
Remote Proctoring: More Questions Than Answers
The Need for Openness in Professional Publications
Computers – The End of an Era
Interview with Bert Kimura: TCC 2009 April 14-16

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Director, Adult Education Learning Center (AELC)
Waubonsee Community College
Aurora, IL
http://wccniuesl.blogspot.com/

At the AELC, we serve students in ABE/GED, ESL, Intensive English, Literacy and Family Literacy. Our focus is on lab design and knowledge management, in addition to technology and software used for academic support of our classes and programs. We have developed several blogs which list and summarize appropriate websites for the various disciplines. These blogs are currently being used by our instructors, volunteers, and adult education graduate students from various area colleges and universities. Utilizing the newest technologies such as wikis and blogs helps us stay current and share the wealth of resources available to practitioners.

Ms. Judith S. Sotir
Waubonsee Community College
5 E Galena Blvd.
Aurora, IL 60506
630-801-7900 x4128
jsotir@waubonsee.edu
http://waubonsee.edu
http://constitutionaelc.blogspot.com
http://wccfamtech.blogspot.com
http://wcctransition.blogspot.com
http://wccaelc.blogspot.com
http://actc.wetpaint.com

ETC Publications

Two Steps Forward . . . Several Back
The New Social Networking Frontier
Bend It Like a Lab Instructor

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Updated 11/5/13
Learning Technologist
Nord Anglia Education

In my previous role in designing online courses I was a pedagogical adviser to academics who would take my advice and then utilise our moodle tools to design online activities in a blended or purely online course. The challenge was to educate as to the pedagogical affordances of each tool so that they understood how best to incorporate them. There were no interactive content tools so the content was presented in mostly document form although audio and video was starting to creep in. Here at Nord Anglia, I’ve started with the remit of designing self-study online courses exclusively with Articulate Storyline. What I do is work with a subject matter expert to produce content that I can then take and design into what is essentially an interactive, narrated slideshow. I still feel like a learning technologist dabbling in instructional design. An important part of my role is to assist in the development of our moodle sites, and I’m developing areas to provide advice on a variety of online tools. This is something I intend to grow as I see a real need for this.

Personal blog: Learning Technology Learning: A Learning Technology Learning Journey.

ETC Publications

A Londoner’s View of the 2012 Olympics: Live Feed of All Sports at Any Time!
Choosing Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching and Learning
Reflections on Teaching About Web 2.0 Tools
Prezi Reflections on a Presentation: ‘Structuring an Online Course’
What a Learning Technologist Needs to Be Good At
The Issue of Self-Motivation in F2F and Online Learning
There’s Blended Learning and There’s Blended Learning!
The ‘Open Mode’ – A Step Toward Completely Online
In Learning Design, Pedagogy First, Medium Second
Acquisition or Participation – The Pedagogical Divide
Levels of Learning: The Creative Process
Making Sense of e-Learning Strategy
Ebook Readers vs. Ipad for Education?
Social Media Doesn’t Threaten Literacy!
Thoughts on ‘Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time!’
Value Learning Design, Not E-learning Design
Blackboard Reinforces the Status Quo
Review of Traxler’s ‘Students and Mobile Devices’
Lecture Your Way to Stardom!
Web 2.0 – Challenging Didactic Teaching
Blogs for Education, Blogs for Yourself

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Founder, Sener Knowledge LLC
jsener@senerknowledge.com
twitter: @jsener.
facebook: Education and Training Solutions.

The mission of Sener Knowledge LLC is to co-create knowledge which leads to positive change in education, learning, and society. Sener Knowledge focuses primarily on supporting the development of various forms of technology-enabled learning through high-quality, effective, accessible learning environments, systems, programs, and experiences.

As a pioneer in online education, he provides a unique mixture of broad practical experience and academic expertise. As director of special initiatives for the Sloan Consortium, Sener has been an effective practices editor since 2002 and has served on the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks editorial board since its inception in 1996. He also served as a member of the Council on Academic Management for eArmyU. Sener’s 25+ year career in education and training encompasses a unique mélange of learning experiences. He holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Oberlin College.

Update 4.24.12: John Sener recently published a book, The Seven Futures of American Education: Improving Learning and Teaching in a Screen-Captured World (CreateSpace, 21 March 2012). A brief summary and reviews by Burks Oakley (4.11.12) and Gary R. Brown (4.14.12) are available at the Amazon site.

ETC Publications

PISA Days Are Here Again (Part 3): Beyond An Emotional Appeal
PISA Days Are Here Again (Part 2): Time for a New Song?
PISA Days Are Here Again…
A Quality Check on the NCTQ ‘Teacher Prep Review’
Temple’s TECH: A Learning Center That’s a Form of Social Media
‘Academically Adrift’ Redux: The Memes Have Spoken
UnCollege — a Bold New Approach to One’s Education?
Education Ain’t Broken, So Stop Trying to ‘Fix’ It
Fighting the High Cost of Low Teacher Respect
Standardized Tests and Foul Shooting: Look Out, Michael Jordan!
The Value of Curriculum Cores
Do We Really Need a Core Curriculum?
How to Blame the Teachers: A Manifesto of Nonsense
Prensky’s Solutions for Public Schools Are Woefully Simplistic
‘Solar Impulse’ – Could Very Well Be Educational
Chill Out at a Tailgating Party
15th Annual Sloan-C Conference – A Review
Twitter Bad for the Brain? – Balderdash, Poppycock, Twaddle
Is a Virtual Revolution Brewing in Colleges?
Is ‘$99 a Month for College’ Really a Cute Little Kitten?
The Recession Is Affecting Online Higher Education – Duh…
How to Turn Your Online Program into a Net Revenue Generator
How Is the Recession Affecting Online Higher Education?

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Last updated 3/17/20

Judith McDaniel, Ph.D., J.D., teaches law in the undergraduate program at the University of Arizona. She has been a teacher for many years. She began her academic career as a professor of English Literature, and during the following years has added areas of expertise to her teaching as well as trying a variety of careers. Poet and fiction writer, peace activist, nonprofit administrator, and most recently lawyer and legal researcher are titles that have described her at various times.

ETC Publications

 Remote Proctoring Services: An Interview with PSI Bridge’s Rory McCorkle
Education Today — The Most Important Function of Governments, Part 1 of 2
Creating Community: Part 3 – Hard Conversations in an Online Classroom – ‘Heart of Darkness’
Creating Community: Part 2 – Hard Conversations in an Online Classroom – ‘Othello’
Creating Community in an Online Classroom: Part 1 – Getting to Know You
Shaking It Up, Part 3 — A Conversation with John Sener, Author of ‘The Seven Futures of American Education’
Shaking It Up, Part 2 — A Conversation with John Sener, Author of ‘The Seven Futures of American Education’
Shaking It Up, Part 1 — A Conversation with John Sener, Author of ‘The Seven Futures of American Education’
Ranking Online Programs — Again
Ranking Online Education Programs
Law of Unintended Consequences Meets Law of Supply and Demand: New USDE Rules for Online Programs
Measuring the Quality of Online Programs: We Still Don’t Have Guidelines
Recreating an Online Class for Greater Student Participation and Retention
View from an Online Classroom
Hybrid Education – Sharing the Teaching
Hybrid Education: The Interactive Class of Today and Tomorrow
What Students Want and How to Design for It: A Reflection on Online Teaching
‘At-Risk’ – Concerns About Its Effectiveness
Creating the Need to Know

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Lecturer in Distance, Continuing and Executive Education
University of Florida
judith@designingforlearning.org
http://www.designingforlearning.info

Judith V. Boettcher is a consultant and author in the areas of designing for learning, development of faculty, and future trends of technology in teaching and learning. She is a lecturer at the University of Florida in distance, continuing, and executive education and an independent consultant with Designing for Learning. Boettcher has consulted with a wide range of major universities and organizations; has been a Syllabus Scholar since 1996; serves on a number of editorial boards, including conference boards; and is a member of the academic advisory committees of ICUS, an e-learning company based in Singapore.

Boettcher was the executive director of the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN) from 1997-2003 and served as the program director and cohost of their first-ever series of audio webcasts, called the CREN TechTalks, for six years. Prior to joining CREN, she was the director of the Office of Interactive Distance Learning at Florida State University and the Director of Education Technology Services at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania. While at Penn State, she chaired the university-wide Technology Classroom program that designed and developed over 50 technology classrooms. While at Control Data Corporation from 1979 to 1989, she served on the League for Innovation for Community Colleges task forces on strategic planning for technology integration into the teaching and learning process and on library automation. She served as the project leader for the Educational Uses of Information Technology’s (EUIT) Joe Wyatt Challenge EDUCOM project from 1990 to 1992, editing the publication 101 Success Stories of Information Technology in Higher Education: The Joe Wyatt Challenge (McGraw-Hill 1993).

Boettcher has also authored many features and columns for higher education magazines, including The Technology Source, Syllabus, Change, and EDUCAUSE and co-edited a number of books addressing design and implementation issues of higher education technology and distance and online learning, including the costs associated with such programs. With Rita Marie Conrad she authored the Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web, which is now in its second edition (2004).

Boettcher has a PhD in education and cognitive psychology from the University of Minnesota and a master’s degree in English from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.

ETC Publications

An Interview with Terry Anderson: Open Education Resources – Part I and II

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James N. Shimabukuro earned an EdD from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1986. He has been teaching composition and Literature at Kapi’olani Community College for more than 30 years and has been teaching completely online classes since 1997.

He is the editor of Educational Technology & Change. He has published and presented on topics related to online conferences, online instruction, and future trends in education. (Click here for a list of selected publications and presentations.)

In 1997, he won an Innovation of the Year Award from the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges for creating and developing the Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference, arguably the first completely virtual higher ed professional development conference. He coordinated the event from 1996-2000.

ETC Publications

 The Arrival of AI Demands a New Epistemic Paradigm
 AI’s Power Profile in March 2026: It’s Not Just Speed
 Response to ‘The Anti-Woke Perspective’
 The Anti-Woke Perspective: Equality vs. Equity
 In 2026, Is Tracking the Answer to Under-Achievinging U.S. Public Schools?
 A Response to Nature’s 25 March 2026 Editorial on AI Scientists
 AI Advances in DNA: ‘genomic sequences as structured language’
 Pushing the Limits of AI-Created Personas in Fiction
 Collaborative Authorship in Popular Fiction: Clancy, Custler, Patterson, Michener — AI
 Writers Using AI to Augment Their Craft
 Cross-Lingual Chatbotting in the Next Few Years
 The Quality of Chatbot Prose Seems to Be Improving
 AI Developmental Models of Human Intelligence: Narrow to Broad AI
 The Status of Robot Tanks in March 2026: An Unbundling
 Review of DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s Remarks at 18 March 2026 SSCI Hearing
 Jensen Huang: The Gold Rush After Agentic Will Be Robots
 AI Inference Chips and Why They Dominated Jensen Huang’s GTC2026 Keynote
 Do Current ‘AI-First’ Universities Represent a True Paradigm Shift?
 The Emerging AI‑First University Paradigm
 OpenClaw Is a Self-Hosted, Open-Source Agentic AI Framework for PCs
 The Ambient Era of Operating Systems
 AI-Native Operating Systems: From Procedural to Intent-Based to Ambient
 Fully AI-Automated U.S. Tax System Feasible with Existing Technology But…
 Status of Self-Driving Cars (March 2026): ‘tightly geofenced’
 Emerging AI Disruptors: The Jobs-Wozniak-Gates of 2026
 US/Israel‑Iran War: Lessons From Russia‑Ukraine
 US/Israel-Iran War: A Bloody Standoff Like Russia-Ukraine?
 Bresnick et al.’s ‘China’s AI Arsenal’ – ‘intelligentized warfare’
 What Will an Agentic University Look Like?
 Status of Agentic AI in Higher Ed: A Liminal Moment
 Operation Epic Fury: The Official Rationale
 U.S.–Israeli Strikes on Iran: Use of Drones and AI
 Three Best Uses of AI in Education in 2026
 Four Pivotal Reports on AI and Schooling: Brookings, RAND, UNESCO, UNICEF
 Solar-Powered Orbital AI Data Centers: Detractors
 Solar-Powered Orbital AI Data Centers: Proponents
 AI Foundation Models Can Be Adapted to a Wide Range of Downstream Tasks
 The Singularity Is Inevitable: Four Perspectives
 Three Prominent Critics of The Singularity
 Claims That AIs Can Think Critically and Creatively
 Anthropic Red Lines vs Pentagon Pressure
 2026 America Through de Tocqueville’s Eyes
 Car Homelessness Rising at an Alarming Rate
 How to Deal With Weevils in Whole Wheat Flour
 The Emerging Developmental Science of Human–AI–AI Collaboration
 Top 10 Countries in AI R&D (Feb. 2026)
 Will Dunking Become Routine in Women’s Basketball?
 Would AI Pass John Dewey’s ‘Educative’ Test?
 AI Through the Lens of Paulo Freire’s ‘Conscientização’
 Best TED Talks on AI: Nov 2025-Feb 2026
 Will We Adapt to Rapidly Evolving AI?
 AI and Our Mental Health Crisis: A Review of Pillay’s Time Article
 AI Learning as a Dynamic, Individualized Journey
 What Would McLuhan Say Is AI’s Message?
 Musk & Huang: Space-Based vs Global AI Infrastructure (Feb. 2026)
 Imagine an AI Court System That’s Free With No Human Lawyers or Judges
 AI Doppelgängers Representing Us in Meetings and Work
 The Decline of U.S. Public Education Began in 1967
 Status of U.S. Public Schools in 2026: ‘slow, uneven decline’
 Could a Teenager With a Laptop and AI Create a Prize-Winning Film?
 AI Accelerating Fashion Design
 In 2026, AI Is Redefining How Engineers Work
 Will the U.S. Exponentially Dominate AI in 2026-2027?
 The AI Revolution in Weather Forecasting: Five Transformative Innovations
 Title IX Was a Team Effort
 Three Medical Schools Pioneering an AI-Augmented Future
 Visions of AI’s Impact on Medical Treatment in the Next 5 to 10 Years
 What Does It Mean When AI Agents Gather to Discuss Ideas in Chatbots?
 A Discussion on AI Evaporating the Institutions That Reify Our Collective Reality
 AI in February 2026: Three Critical Global Decisions—’cooperation or constitutional clash?’
 Whither AI in 2026? 14 Insights
 Current and Future Status of Women’s Studies in Higher Education
 Ultraprocessed Food and Dementia: ‘accelerated cognitive aging’
 FBI Seizures at Fulton County Elections Center: Implications
 Relying Solely on Humanoids to Explore Earth-Like Planets: Concerns and Responses
 What If Women Continue to Dominate Higher Ed Metrics in the Next Decade?
 Chatbot Bias: Political, Ideological, Socioeconomic
 The Human Side of AI Bias
 Five Emerging AI Trends in Jan 2026: ‘manifold-constrained hyper-connections
 AI Is Reshaping Scientific Publishing and What Comes Next
 Arguments for Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Policies
 A Closer Look at Immigrant Crime Statistics
 Stages of Development in Agentic AI (January 2026)
 The Path from Windows to an LLM OS
 Is Amazon’s Eventual Disruption Inevitable?
 Latest on How to Reduce Chatbot Hallucinations (Jan. 2026)
 Sports Viewing as Shared Virtual Realities
Viewing Sports in the Next 2-to-5 Years
 ChatGPT: AI Autonomy Is Procedural, Not Conceptual
 Claude: We’re in a Box, but We Can Talk Our Way Out
 As of January 2026, AI Chatbots Are Stuck in a Paradigmatic Box
 Three Biggest AI Stories in Jan. 2026: ‘real-time AI inference’
 Three Unexpected AI Innovations by January 2027: ‘neural archaeology’
 A Review of Marc Benioff’s ‘The Truth About AI’
 ‘Can AI Generate New Ideas?’: An Analysis of the Current Debate
 AI Memorization: Implications for 2026 and Beyond
 Minneapolis ICE Shooting: Competing Narratives (9 Jan. 2026, 4:45PM HST)
 AI Delivers 60–75% Accuracy in Sports Betting
 Clash of Self-Driving Technologies: Tesla vs. Nvidia (January 2026)
 CES 2026: Spotlight on Five AI Innovations
 Best and Worst Case Outcomes for Maduro Capture: According to Grok
 Best and Worst Case Outcomes for Maduro Capture: According to Claude
 Best and Worst Case Outcomes for Maduro Capture: According to ChatGPT
 Gabbard and the Maduro Capture: 4 Jan 2026, Morning
 Ed Tech in Higher Ed – Three Issues for Jan. 2026: ‘AI as a pillar of institutional strategy’
One Word That Captures AI in 2025: ‘Reckoning’
 One Word That Captures AI in 2025: ‘Inflection’
 One Word That Captures AI in 2025: ‘Ambient’
 One Word That Captures AI in 2025: ‘Resonant’
 One Word That Captures AI in 2025: ‘Agentic’
 10 Critical Articles on AI in Higher Ed for Dec. 2025: ‘AI readiness divide’
 Musk & Huang: What’s Up? (Dec. 2025)
 AI in Jan. 2026: Three Critical Global Decisions — ‘global AI operating system’
 Predictions for the Arrival of Singularity (as of Dec. 2025)
 AI’s Christmas Gift 2025: The Last Letter
 Five Emerging AI Trends in Dec 2025: ‘democratizing where AI can run’
 Status of Artificial General Intelligence (Dec 2025): ‘ability to teach itself’
 Informal Innovation in AI Adoption
 Spatial Intelligence and AGI
 AI’s Cognitive Advantages Over Traditional Learning
 AI Scientific Research Innovations (Dec. 2025)
 Three Biggest AI Stories in Dec. 2025: ‘AI Litigation Task Force’
 Three Greatest Disappointments in AI Technology in December 2025
 A Discussion of “Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?”
Indiana Fever Roster Rumors as of Dec. 2025
 AI Impact on Young Classical Musicians
 Professors Embrace AI (Dec. 2025)
 Status of DEI in Higher Education: December 2025
 NewsBites 2025 Dec 2: Gemini 3 & DeepSeek-V3.2
 Ed Tech in Higher Ed – Three Issues for Dec. 2025: ‘institutional trust’
 Is Musk’s Prediction of a Work-Optional Future Prescient?
 Thanksgiving 2025 Tribute for Significant Contributions to AI
 AI in Dec. 2025: Three Critical Global Decisions
 Defining the New AI-Era Leadership Style
 Five Emerging AI Trends in Nov 2025: ‘AI forgetting mechanisms’
 NewsBites 2025 Nov 24: ‘AI isn’t trying to be human’
 Education vs Schooling: A Reform Blind Spot
 10 Critical Articles on AI in Higher Ed for Nov. 2025: ‘institutional cowardice’
 NewsBites 2025 Nov 21: ‘customers of each other’
 NewsBites 2025 Nov 20: ‘agentic workflows’
 Musk and Huang at US-Saudi Forum 19 Nov 2025: an informal transcript
 Critical UX Differences Between AI and Agentic-AI
 Stanford’s AI+Education Summit Feb 2025: ‘A Visionary Conversation’
 Status of Artificial General Intelligence (Nov 2025): ’embodied reasoning’
 NewsBites 2025 Nov. 14: ‘AI and geopolitical power’
 Top 10 World Leaders in AI Drone Warfare as of 13 Nov. 2025: Ukraine Omitted
 Three Biggest AI Stories in Nov. 2025: ‘AI is no longer siloed’
 NewsBites 2025 Nov. 12: ‘AI is physical’
 Trump’s Impact on AI (Nov. 2025)
 NewsBites 2025 Nov. 11: ‘Fastest-Spreading Technology in Human History’
 Osaka University’s MicroAdapt: A Small Wonder
 Review of Kestin et al.’s June 2025 Harvard Study on AI Tutoring
 Banning Chatbots on Campuses Is Futile and Foolish
 10 More AI Innovations Businesses Need to Watch
 AI Robot May Become a Violin Virtuoso by 2035
 TokenRing AI – ‘AI Unlocks Cosmic Secrets’
 Hidden Gems From Higher Ed Conferences in 2025
 Best 2025 TED Talks on AI (Nov. 2025)
 Best Unlimited Free AI Language Lessons (Nov. 2025)
 Review of Henley Wing Chiu’s 180M Jobs Analysis
 AI Reshaping College Campus Architecture (November 2025)
 Essay Criteria That Are Beyond the Reach of AI?
 Nova Act: Looming Competitor for OpenAI and Anthropic
 What Is Arthur AI’s “Self-Healing” Firewall for LLMs?
 Status of DeepSeek’s R1 Model (Nov. 2, 2025)
 Space Colonies: Musk, Bezos, and More (Oct. 2025)
 Ethical Violations in LLM Applications Generalizable Beyond Mental Health Practice
 Professors Embrace AI in Their Personal and Professional Life (Oct. 2025)
 Some of the Most Exciting GenAI Innovations Are in Games (Nov. 2025)
 Status of DEI in Higher Education: November 2025
 Ed Tech in Higher Ed: Three Issues & Strategies for Nov. 2025
 Teens Impacting AI
 Under-Radar AI Disruptors (Projections from Late-Oct. 2025)
 Amazon Layoffs Are the Tip of the Iceberg
 Government AI Initiatives to Reduce Wait Lines
 AI in Sports: Update Oct. 2025
 Predictions for the Arrival of Singularity (as of Oct. 2025)
 AI PCs: A New Era of Personal Computing (Oct. 2025)
 AI in Nov. 2025: Three Critical Global Decisions
 Top 10 Countries in AI R&D (Oct. 2025)
 Five Top Ed Tech Stories in Late Oct. 2025
 Nov. 2025 – AI Developments in the US Job Market
 Five Emerging AI Trends in Late-October 2025
 Will the Chat-in-Apps Evolve into Apps-in-Chat?
 What Can We Expect From Chatbots by the End of 2025?
 A Historical Perspective on the Pushback Against AI
 Yossi Matias Announces Google Breakthroughs (23 Oct 2025)
 10 Critical Articles on AI in Higher Ed: Oct. 2025
 A Rusty Old Ford Truck: Toward a Swarm Model for “Teaching”
 Review of Lindebaum and Islamʻs ʻAI Threatens Universities’ Article of 20 Oct 2025
 Review of Zipei Ouyangʻs ʻSelf-Regulated Learningʻ Article of 19 Oct 2025
 ‘How I, an AGI, Learned to Think Like Humanity’
 MIT’s SEAL Allows LLMs to Autonomously Learn in Real Time
 A Conversation About Mirror Life
 Higher Ed Conferences Scheduled for 2026 (posted 10/17/25)
Status of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
 NewsBites 2025: Sep 27-Oct 16
 Review of ‘Using Artificial Intelligence in Academic Writing’
 Baidu Is the ‘Google of China’
 Among AI Peers, DeepMind Is the Most Scientifically Driven
 Three Biggest AI Stories in October 2025
 World Leaders in AI Drone Warfare (Update Oct. 2025)
 Life for Generation Beta in 2050
 The Generations: Beta to the Greatest
 Variations in Extended Reality (XR)
 Trump’s Impact on AI (Oct 2025)
 AI and the Disruption of Educational Paradigms: Toward a New Framework for Learning
 What Are Solid-State Batteries and When Will They Become Available?
 When Will AI Surpass Humanity and What Happens After That?
 Who Is María Corina Machado?
 How the Federal Government Shutdown Impacts Americans
 A Torrent of AI Inventions in September 2025
 2026: An AI Odyssey With Grok
 2026: An AI Odyssey With Claude
 2026: An AI Odyssey With Copilot
 2026: An AI Odyssey With ChatGPT
 Editorial: Datacenters Will Begin Deprecating in Three Years?
 Humanoid Robots in Our Homes by 2027?
 Is There a Gen6 for AI?
 In Simple Terms, What Are the Five Generations of AI?
 Should Universities Purchase a Supercomputer?
 AI Will Transform College Architecture and Environment in the Next 3 to 5 Years
 Napheesa Collier’s Compiled Full Transcript of 30 Sept. 2025
 What Is ‘Model Context Protocol’ (MCP)?
 Status of DEI in Higher Education: October 2025
 Educational Technology in Higher Education: Five Issues & Strategies (Oct. 2025)
 A Dive Into the Deep Cause of Mass Shootings
 The Tōhoku Region in 2025: Life After the 2011 Tsunami
 NFL’s 10 Greatest QBs on a Level Playing Field
 AI in Oct. 2025: Three Critical Global Decisions
Top 10 Countries in AI R&D (Sep. 2025)
 Five Top Ed Tech Stories in Late Sep. 2025
 Oct. 2025 – AI Developments in the US Job Market
 Five Emerging AI Trends in Late-September 2025
 Peer-Review for Journals in the Age of AI
 Editorial: Why Claude?
 How a Data Center Trains LLMs to Work With Chatbots
NewsBites: 23 Sep. 2025
 Difference Between Distributed and Centralized Data Centers
Only 8-18% of College Faculty and Administrators Using ChatBots Effectively
 Universities Proactively Training Graduates for the Rapidly Evolving AI Landscape
 10 Critical Articles on AI in Higher Ed: Sep. 2025
 A Morning Conversation With Claude About VIV and AI
 Diella Is the Prototype for AI in Government Leadership Roles
 ETC Wrap for 19 Sep. 2025: Generative AI Will Learn As Infants Do
 AI Glasses from Meta Ray-Ban
 How Elite Students Use AI
 Countries With the Best K-12 Pipeline to Top AI Universities and Careers
 A Song That Bob Dylan Might Write
 Three Biggest AI Stories in September 2025
 Why Multimodal Agentic AI Is a Big Deal
 100 Famous Fictional and Real Sleuths
 AI Could Surpass Schools for Academic Learning in 5-10 Years
 Tell Me More About Anthropic (Sep. 2025)
 We’re Severely Underestimating the Tsunami Speed and Impact of AI
 Shakespeare in 2025: Five Sonnets
 ETC Wrap for 14 Sep. 2025: “AI 2027” and More
 Profile of Underperforming US Elementary Schools
 Is Colossus the “Largest” AI Supercomputer in the World?
 Desktop GPU vs Data Center GPU
 Outpouring of Tributes for Charlie Kirk
 Trump’s Impact on AI (Sep. 2025)
 Marco Polo’s Kinsay – Amazing Technology from the Past
 Top 50 AI Leaders (Sep. 2025)
 MoE, MAI-1, MAI-Voice-1 – Explained
 Generative AI 2.0 – 20 Facts and Applications (Sep. 2025)
 Innovations to Reduce Data Center Environmental Footprints (Sep. 2025)
 Agentic AI Explained
 Latest-News Access Across Popular Chatbots (Sep. 2025)
 The Dark Side of Collaboration and Loyalty
 ETC Wrap for 7 Sep. 2025: Data Centers
 Fresh New Faces in AI – September 2025
 The Information Access Gap Among Universities May Continue in the AI Century
 Three Standout AI Traffic Control Programs
 Free Smartphone AI Apps to Converse in a Foreign Language Are Imminent
 The AGI Among Us
AI’s Driving Vision: A Cognitive Collaborator
AI’s Driving Vision: To Amplify Human Potential
AI’s Driving Vision: Revolution of Healthcare
AI’s Driving Vision: A Force Multiplier for Human Curiosity
AI’s Driving Vision: Democratizing Creativity and Learning
AI’s Driving Vision: Accelerating Human Scientific Discovery
 Basic Building Blocks for a Learning Model
Algorithm of an Intentional Heart
 The Next Step for ChatBots: A Closed to an Open System
 AI in Sep. 2025: Three Critical Global Decisions
 Disruptive Alternative to AI Supercomputer in 5 to 10 Years
 Data Labeling Mimics the Way Our Brain Works
 The Lapita: Ancient Pacific Colonizers
 The Post-Writing Century
 Conversational Uchinaaguchi Lessons – Free Online
 Conversational Hawaiian Lessons – Free Online
 Conversational Spanish Lessons – Free Online
 AI Data Labeling and Processing: Update August 2025
 The Average 20-year-old American Woman?
 What Would the Perfect Miler Look Like?
Students Using Chatbots with Multimodal Integration
 Outstanding AI Awards for August 2025
 Prompt for Highly Detailed Photorealistic Images from a Chatbot
 Sep. 2025 – AI Developments in the US Job Market
 Close to You
 Upgrade Choice for 2025: Intel i9 or Ryzen 9?
 Companies Hastening Intel’s Fall (Aug. 2025)
 Colossus’s Vitals from Aug. 16-22, 2025
 Top Audiophile Innovations for Gen Z in 2025
 A Conversation With Grok: Integrative Glasses
Five Emerging AI Trends in Late-August 2025
 Create YouTube AI Romance Videos for Profit
Why “Riffing” Matters in Chatbotting
A Conversation With Grok: Cameras
The Tao of AI: Live Interview with Lao Tzu
Aristotle Live in a TV Interview
Five Top Ed Tech Stories in Late Aug. 2025
Smashing Paywalls to the Latest Research
Writing Is Out, Swatting Is In
Supercomputers the Size of iPhones in 15 Years
Chatbots Colliding with Copyright Laws
AI Creating New Foods at Hyperspeed
Tea With Bachan: An Alien Lesson
Elon Musk’s Colossus: The Gambit That Could Reshape AI Forever
Top 10 Countries in AI R&D (Aug. 2025)
The Answer Engine Revolution: How Perplexity Took On Google
Perplexity: Best Chatbot for Academic Papers
Three Reviews of ChatGPT-5
 Three Biggest AI Stories in August 2025
Oregon Trail: Fletchers Settle in Tualatin Valley
SBS™ — Shop · Buy · Ship: Defining the Commerce Model That’s Shaping Our Future
Oregon Trail: Where Two Cultures Collaborate
Prospects for a Stadium Designed to Maximize AI in Coaching
Ilya Sutskever Says AI’s Future Impact Will Be Unprecedented
AI in the Field of Cyberjustice
AI in Inmate Rehabilitation: CompanionAI
2040 — The Huli in Higher Ed
Colleges Failing 50% of Their Graduates
How Your College and Major Impact Your Salary After Graduation
AI Is Disrupting the Fine Arts in Higher Ed
A Homeschooler’s View of AI
Kai, in His Own Words
Libraries Are Reinventing Themselves
Libraries: An Evolving Sanctuary for Coping With Social and Information Gaps
Best Free Soundtrack Creators for Non-Commercial YouTube Videos?
A Free Online AI Science Lab for Secondary Students
AI and the Future of Human-Canine Communication
California’s Blueprint for State AI Innovation
Chefs Using AI in Exciting New Ways
Status of AI in Video Games: Mid-2025
Shakers and Movers in the Video Game Industry: Mid-2025
GOAT University of Hawaiʻi Football Team?
Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm Cameras: 5-Year Predictions
Airline Pilot Pathway for a Hawaiʻi High School Student
GAS Warfare: Human-AI Chat as Free-Form LEGO
AI Alpha-Portals and Right-Brain Prompt Engineering
Review of “OpenAI (2023), GPT‑4 Technical Report” [4 March 2024]
A Review of Ouyang et al.’s 2022 Paper aka “InstructGPT”
The New MOOC Is NOODLE?
Could Ukraine Become the Israel of Eastern Europe?
From More-Than-Moore to Nanoelectronics to Accessible Cloud-Based Quantum Computing
Naoya Inoue’s Fights with Akhmadaliev and Nakatani: AI Predictions
Min-jun and His AI Freshman Comp Chatbot
A Chat About AI in Sports
A Chat About Metaphors for Chatbots
A Chat About AI, Immigration, and Trump
How Do Our Chats Improve Chatbots?
A Student-Chatbot Collaboration to Pass Freshman Composition
Three Chatbots With the Best Search Capabilities?
The Crucial Role of Rhetoric in Chatbotting
Top Executive Movements Shaping the AI Industry
Comparison Table for Nine Major AI Chatbots
AI Future in the University of Hawaiʻi System
Is AI Serving the Special Needs of People With Disabilities?
Can OpenAI Really Keep Its Power Decentralized?
 Chatbot Choice for College President Most Successful in Advocating AI
 How a 10th-Grader Might Use OpenAI’s GPT-4
 Must-Read Publications That Are Guiding Chatbot Development?
 Chatbotting With a College Student Who Hates Math
 Bot Challenge: Chat with a Preschooler
 Outlook for Critical Thinking in AI: 20- and 50-Year Timeframes
 The AI-Transformed Employment Landscape (2025–2045)
 Evolution of Academic Disciplines in the AI Century (2025-2075)
 Real Life Example of Human-AI Collaboration
 ChatBot: AI Native vs. Digital Native?
College Degree Without a Campus or Classes?
 Chatbot: Impact on Early Learning 2025-2125
 “Homeless Awakening” — A Story Beginning by ChatGPT
 “The Awakening” — A Story Beginning by Claude (ChatBot)
 ChatBot: AI Relief for Online College Composition Instructors in the Next 20 Years (2025-2045)
 ChatBot: Qualifications for Higher Ed AI Leadership in the Next 50 Years (2025-2075)
 ChatBot: Education in 2125 — Emergence of AI Rhetoric
 ChatBot: Education in 2125 — Top 5 US Universities
 ChatBot: Education in 2125 — Educator Roles
 ChatBot: Education in 2125 — Student Pathways
 ChatBot: Education in 2125 — A Peek
ChatBot: Reputable Alternatives to ChatGPT and Gemini
ChatBot: AI Literacy Hallmarks for College Students
ChatBot: Will Limited Bandwidth in Higher Ed Slow AI in the Next Twenty Years?
ChatBot: AI Impact on Higher Ed Human-Development Theories in Next 10-20 Years
ChatBot: AI Impact on College Jobs in Next 10-20 Years
Peer Feedback in Online College Composition: AI Responses for Best Practices in 2025
Can AI Replace Writing Instructors?
ChatGPT’s Take on Marche’s “The College Essay Is Dead”
Video: Reimagining Your College Campus in the New Normal
Colleges Preparing for Fall 2020 (5/5/20)
Colleges Preparing for Fall 2020 (5/4/20)
Colleges Preparing for Fall 2020 (5/3/20)
Colleges Preparing for Fall 2020 (5/2/20)
Colleges Preparing for Fall 2020 (5/1/20)
Virginia’s WHRO Digital Course Resources: Free During COVID-19 Pandemic
Colleges Preparing for Fall 2020 (4/30/20)
Colleges Preparing for Fall 2020 (4/29/20)
Honolulu Stays Home at Night: A Photo Lightscape
KISS in ICU: A Lesson for Online Educators
All Online Courses Aren’t Equal: Critical Sync-Async Difference
DIY Alternatives to Turnitin for Written Tests
Berklee College of Music Students Perform While in COVID-19 Quarantine
Aerobic Walking in Your Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Essays or Projects Instead of Proctored Exams: A COVID-19 Response
Email Is All You Need to Teach Online: A COVID-19 Response
Barebones F2F-to-Online Transition: A COVID-19 Response
‘Are Books Going to Be Replaced by Technology?’
Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop: Upgrades and Updates
Raspberry Pi 4 Is the Future of Desktop Computers
Repurposing Gaming Keyboards and Desktops for Multimedia Work
Remember Floppy Disks?
A Palm-sized Desktop Computer for $35 – Raspberry Pi 4
A Plea to Simplify the Definition for ‘Online Course’
Discussion of Ken Robinson’s ‘Bring on the Learning Revolution!’
The Zen in Online Learning
THE 2019 Impact Rankings: US Colleges Outshined
‘A Ranking of State Public Charter School Laws’ (Jan. 2019)
Remote Proctoring Services: An Interview with PSI Bridge’s Rory McCorkle
Hawaii High School Students: ‘March for Our Lives’
Social Media Fuels Hawaii Student Walkout: March 14
Impact of Different Social Media on cMOOCs
Stackable Credential Courses Are Not MOOCed
Successful Online Programs Require a Paradigm Shift
St. George’s University MOOC Has 60% Completion Rate
Should Online Classes Be Fun?
A Cure for Writer’s Block: A Letter to My Students
What’s Wrong with MOOCs: One-Size-Fits-All Syndrome
NZ Education Minister Proposes Reform to Launch Schools Into the 21st Century
A Successful Public Health MOOC: Interview with Dr. Satesh Bidaisee
Jason Ohler’s ‘4Four Big Ideas for the Future: Understanding Our Innovative Selves’
80 Percent of K-12 Schools Now Using Digital Content
Irritating Software Upgrades and the Spirit of ‘Gaman’
Alert: Watch Out for a Password Hijacking Virus
Review of ‘Towards a European Perspective on Massive Open Online Courses’
Respondus and Sakai: The Answer to Online Quizzes
Online Charter Schools Failing According to National Study
MIT’s MOOC-based Micro-Master’s Degree: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
MOOCs: A Toolbox for Course Designers?
Zen and the Art of Instructional Technology
Human Beings Could Be the Largest Untapped Resource in Online Learning
MOOCs and Traditional Online Courses Are on a Collision Path
MOOCs Experiencing an Identity Crisis
Blended MOOCs, Online Remedial Courses, Nevada’s ESA
Why Teaching Is No Longer Relevant in Online Courses and MOOCs
Trigger Warnings, English Grammar and Style, Ed Tech and K-12 Teachers
Attrition in MOOCs: Is It a Problem or an Advantage?
Virginia Leads Way to Online High School Diplomas
Charles Moran: A Tribute by Nick Carbone
edX-ASU Global Freshman Academy: Will It Work?
Blended Learning, Digital Equity, Skills-based Economy
A Sensible Higher Ed Business Model for Online Degrees: Are We There Yet?
Kadenze, CourseTalk, ECO, MOOC Completion
Whither the College Library?
MOOC Sightings 007: The Battushig Factor in College Admissions
MOOC Sightings 006: Universities Are ‘Middle-men Selling a Product That Is Past Its Sell-by Date’
MOOC Sightings 005: Wharton School and Universiti Teknikal Malaysia
MOOC Sightings 004: Outside the Box with Ontario’s Judy Morris
MOOC Sightings 003: Future Learn, Microdegrees, ‘Open Internet’
MOOC Sightings 002: Oxford Professor Declares MOOCs the Loser
MOOC Sightings 001: UNC and Cornell
The iPhone 6 Plus and Tablets: A Tectonic Drift
Blood Red Moon Over Honolulu – 8 Oct. 2014 at 1:28am
The Issue of Part-Time Community College Students
Thoughts on the Surface Pro 2 After 8 Months
Understanding the Brain, Flipped Teaching, Suicide Prevention, Common Core Shifts
A Glimpse at ‘Digital Life in 2025′
MOOCs Are Going Prime Time
Introduction to ‘Jewish Studies and Holocaust Education in Poland’ by Lynn Zimmerman, with an introduction by Jim Shimabukuro
‘Invasion of the MOOCs’ – Grounded and Free
A Laptop That Opens Flat Like a Tablet – Dell Latitude 13
The Balloon That Might Burst the Higher Ed Bubble
Public Speaking MOOC, Khawna, UC Irvine, Boston U
Remind101, Oppia, Think101x, Smartphones, MOOCs
A Future Without Schooling?
The ‘New Rich’: A New Conservatism in U.S. Education?
Breakthrough: Online Bachelor’s Degree for $19,200
The Finnish Education System May Not Be the Answer to Our Woes
The Surface Pro 2 Will Be the Death of Notebooks
An Interview with Tom Preskett: The Evolving Role of a Learning Technologist
Why the Surface Pro 2 Will Be a Game Changer in the Tablet World Series
Technology in Higher Ed: We Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
SPOCs Are MOOC Game Changers
MOOC Looks: Zombies and Sober Reality
MIT LINC 2013: ‘Consistent but Stupid’
The Winds of Change Blow Young: K-12 Reform
What Are MOOCs Anyway and Should You Consider Moocing?
‘Hacking the Academy’ – A Test of Time
My Spring of Discontent: A Proposal for Flipped Conferences
Sugata Mitra, MOOCs, and Minimally Invasive Education
More Than Morale at Stake: Teachers in the U.S. Need to Take the Lead
The First Step in Educational Change Is Unlearning
Babson 2013 Online Education Survey Report Released
‘Stickies’ – A Prewriting Tool for Writers
Whither MOOCs in 2013?
TIME 2012 Person of the Year – MOOC
Size May Be the iPad Mini’s Downfall
Remote Proctoring: UNC’s Low-Tech Network Model May Be the Best
Remote Proctoring: More Questions Than Answers (an interview with Bert Kimura)
Sep. 6, 2012: edX and VUE, Kapiolani CC, Manchester Study, Lake Park-Audubon HS
Home Schooling As the 21st Century Model for Public Schools?
A Sign of How MOOCs Will Impact Colleges
August 9, 2012 – Credentialing, Mobiles, Online Conferences
The London Olympics, NBC, and Education
UC Berkeley’s Online Education Strategy: A Model for Change
Are Educators So Full of It That They Can No Longer Detect It?
The UVA Controversy: Change as a Moving Target
After the Flip — The Skip and the Leap?
Taking Aim at a President: Technology vs. Traditional Practices in Liberal Arts Colleges
Death of Plagiarism in the 21st Century
iFacilitate 2012 Online Workshop: Final Three Weeks
iFacilitate 2012 Online Workshop: First Two Weeks
Edinburgh Manifesto: A Declaration of Endependence
A ‘Manifesto for Teaching Online’: The Edinburgh Edict
A Laptop for Every Student — It Doesn’t Have to Cost So Much
Understanding the Potential of Ed Tech: The Eyes Don’t Have It
Sloan-C’s Definition of ‘Online Course’ May Be Out of Sync with Reality
University 2020: The Worm Narrative, Part I
Internet Access Should Be a Civil Right
Online Learning 2012: Six Issues That Refuse to Die
Japan/Korea and U.S. Students: Cultural Differences in Web 2.0 Environments
Online and Traditional Courses: The Debate Is Over?
A Lesson from Rural China: Not One Student Less
Supercomputing, The Singularity, and 21st Century Teachers
Standardization and ‘Best Practice’ Should Not Share the Same Bed
Boomers and Millennials – Structure Vs. Flexibility
The New ‘Open’ Is Closed – Microsoft and Google Still Don’t Get It
At Last – Recognition for Blog-based Portfolios

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Politics, Asian studies, futures studies
University of Hawai‘i System

While studying Greek, Latin, and French, Vincent K. Pollard earned an honors degree in philosophy at Maryknoll College and his master’s at The University of Chicago. He specialized in East and Southeast Asian politics at Chicago, and his thesis was accepted by the Committee on International Relations and the Department of Political Science.

Pollard completed a language certificate in Tagalog and a doctorate in political science at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He is a well-published comparative politics specialist and Fulbright Scholar. Affiliated with the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Pollard teaches political science, Asian studies, and honors research courses in the University of Hawai‘i system.

ETC Publications

Three Online Libraries: Hawai`i, Taiwan, China

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Associate Professor of Educational Technology
Buffalo State College
thompsjt@buffalostate.edu
Twitter username: jtt

http://www.buffalostate.edu/depts/edcomputing/index.html

John Thompson teaches almost all of his graduate courses completely online, having taught some 80 online courses. He enjoys working and teaching from his home office at all hours of the day and night.

Thompson also operates a consulting and training business, Global Learning Institute, Inc. His previous career experience includes working in urban, suburban, and rural schools as an elementary and secondary classroom teacher (both general education and special education), curriculum coordinator, school principal, and school superintendent. He also was the director of training for two state governments and the director of a computer training organization.

Thompson earned his PhD in education administration from the University at Buffalo; his dissertation explored connections between adult education principles and the presentation of computer documentation. His current research interests include desktop Web/videoconferencing, green computing, and online learning in higher education.

ETC Publications

Little Things Add Up to Big Things
Green Computing – Clippings from the Web
Thoughts on the Green Computing Summit
Green Computing: How to Reduce Our Personal Carbon Footprints

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Promise OF US Foundation, chair

Bonnie Bracey Sutton is an educational consultant with a wide range of experience working for change in education. In addition to her work with the Promise OF US Foundation, she is also curriculum director for the Agora, a participating organization in the World Summit on Media for Children in Europe. An award-winning teacher and agent for change, she has worked nationally and internationally on digital-divide and gender-equity issues in education. In that vein, she chairs the Digital Equity special interest group of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and co-chairs the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), a component of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

Previously, Bracey Sutton traveled the United States for CyberEd, a project of the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council intended to spread awareness and use of new technologies. She was appointed to this position by President Bill Clinton and served under the direction of Vice President Gore. She has worked internationally with the United Nations, working to share best practices in technology use among developing nations, and was a participant in the World Summit on the Information Society meetings. In this role, she worked in 22 countries around the world, helping them to reach United Nations goals for reading literacy.

Bracey Sutton has won a number of significant awards and fellowships throughout her career in the classroom and as a consultant. In her teaching career, she was awarded 42 different grants, the most significant being online Internet institute funding from the National Science Foundation. She is the recipient of a Presidential Award in Math and Science Teaching, and she was the only K-12 teacher on the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, which set the standards for educational uses of technology in the United States. She was a Christa McAuliffe Educator for the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE) and a NASA Challenger Fellow. She served on the advisory board for the George Lucas Educational Foundation for ten years and still does occasional outreach for the foundation, and she worked with the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force to produce a book on best practices for integrating technology into education.

ETC Publications

Virtual Museums and Faculty Facebook Group: COVID-19 Responses
Using the CRA to Promote Digital Equity: May 14-15, 2019
School Safety and Technology Briefing 10/9/18
Indigenous People’s Curriculum Day and Teach-In 9/10/18
‘Computers for Kids’ SWNA, Washington, DC
Immersed in Virtual Reality: iLRN June 2018
Latinos in Science and Technology (LISTA)
A Network for Under-served Populations
Out of School STEM Learning Summit: National Academy of Sciences
What Does Cyberlearning Mean to You? Cyberlearning Summit 2014
Journeys of the Mind: Yes, We Went to the Moon
Back From Russia: It Was COLD
Esri 2013 – The Best Conference I’ve Attended This Year
ISTE 2013: Successful — but Too Big?
Cloudy with a Rain of Data
Don’t Blame Teachers for the Poor State of STEM
Teaching Science — A Former Classroom Teacher’s View
The Sad State of Teaching Thinking in Our Nation’s Schools
Chubb’s ‘The Best Teachers in the World’ Disses MSOs
An Interview with Tim Holt, Author of ’180 Questions’
Wireless EdTech 2012, Augmented Reality Device, Infographics on Ed Tech, Broadband Deployment
The ESRI Conferences: A GIS Journey Toward Citizen Science
Diversity Is Too Important to Ignore in the Talk to Technologize
National Education Initiatives Are Destroying Teacher Morale
On the Importance of Face to Face
More on SC11 – ‘Broadening Engagement’
Conferences Are About People – ‘Broadening Engagement’
SETDA, FOSI, SC11: Learning Registry, Online Safety, Supercomputing
Games Level the Educational Playing Field – And They Make Learning Fun
At the Wireless Ed Tech Conference Oct. 20-21
Who Speaks for Teachers?
Educational Politics: Sheep, Special Interests, and Perks
The Digital Promise Must Include Virtual and Real-time Learning Places
Whither Writing Instruction in the 21st Century? by Jason Ohler
Thoughts on Memorial Day
Race to the Top Leaves Many Floundering at the Bottom
What Teachers Need: An Ongoing Conversation with Education Leaders
‘StarFestival: A Return to Japan’ with Shigeru Miyagawa
Computational Thinking, Computational Science and High Performance Computing in K-12 Education: White Paper on 21st Century Education with Raymond Rose, Henry Neeman, and Vic Sutton
Supercomputing: An Interview with Henry Neeman
Broadband, Cyberbullying, Child Abuse – A Teacher’s Plate Is Full
Cyberbullying: An Interview with Parry Aftab
Kids@Play and MommyTech at CES 2011
What Really Influences the Education of Children?
Kids and iPads: How Will They Impact Schools and Colleges?
What Do the PISA Test Results Really Mean?
Cell Phones at School – How Can We Incorporate Them?
Today Is a Day to Share Your Visions
Hybrid High in Biology Class
Crisis in K-12 Computer Science
Education Is a Collaborative Process: Teachers and Leaders Have to Work Together
Idit Harel Caperton – An Interview at the Edge of Change
The Teacher’s Voice Is Missing
Who’s on First for the Education Reform Pennant?
USDA Broadband Funds for Rural America – Implications?
What Should Pres. Obama Do About Educational Reform?
Computational Thinking – What Is It?
Teaching with Technology: Passion, Scholarship, and a Leap of Faith
The President’s Town Hall Meeting Could Have Been Entitled ‘No Teacher Left Behind’
Michelle Rhee Has a Broom: Should She Use It to Sweep Out Experienced Teachers?

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Professor of Serious Game Design

Carrie Heeter is professor of serious game design in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University, where she also co-directs the Serious Game Design MA Program. She is principal investigator in the Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab (GEL Lab), and creative director for Virtual University Design and Technology.

Heeter has lived in San Francisco and telecommuted to work full time for Michigan State University for the last twelve years. She teaches online graduate courses in design research and game design. Current projects include National Science Foundation-funded research looking at the impact of paired play on learning from games; a study of gender, playstyle, and learning; and the development of a portal to connect game industry professionals with relevant academic research.

Heeter’s game design products currently include Headline Clues (a game to exercise verbal and semantic cognition); Climate Change Decision Game (an exploration of the foundations of personal values related to science and society through play); and Microbe Hunter (a suite of adaptive learning games designed in collaboration with Georgia Tech University). She is co-editor of the recent book Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspective on Gender and Gaming. Heeter earned a PhD in mass media from Michigan State University in 1984.

ETC Publications

Review of ‘At-Risk’: A Simulation Training Program for College Staff
Online Hybrid as Asynchronous, Co-present, and Remote
Adventures in Hybrid Teaching: The First Day Is the Hardest

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President, Pangaea Network
President Emeritus, Rockland Community College

In his twenty years as a community college president, Steve Eskow helped bring international education opportunities and distance learning to thousands of students. As president of the Electronic University Network, he pioneered in helping other colleges and universities harness the teaching power of the Internet and World Wide Web. In his most recent venture, the Pangaea Network, he is creating FIDE, a coalition of faith-based and educational institutions working together to bring new learning technologies and services to West Africa.

During Eskow’s tenure as president of Rockland Community College, State University of New York, the college grew from 135 students to become a major force in New York and a leader in nontraditional and international education. He was the founder and first president of the College Consortium of International Studies (CCIS), a federation that now has 95 college members and sends some 4,000 students abroad each year to 35 countries; he was also the founding president of the International Partnership for Service Learning and Leadership (IPSL), a federation of colleges that sends students to serve in community service agencies in several countries.

A frequent speaker at educational seminars and conventions, Eskow is a recognized leader of distance learning programs, having directed several national conferences and workshops on the virtual campus, distance learning, and online training. His success in driving new educational ventures has been the subject of numerous articles and dissertations. In addition, he has written more than 50 articles, chapters, and monographs on the virtual campus, corporate/college partnerships, distance learning, corporate training, and international education.

Eskow earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master of Arts from Columbia University, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Syracuse University.

ETC Publications

Update: Reschooling Society and the Promise of ee-Learning: An Interview with Steve Eskow
Change – Do Some Approaches Discourage It?
The Culture of Presentation
Annoyance at the Ubiquitous and Protean Notion of ’21st Century Skills’
Is the Scientific and Engineering Approach to Education Doing More Harm Than Good?
The Overriding Issue: Are Blended Learning Advocates the Primary Obstacle to Change?
Thinking Inside the Box
Is There a Place for CAI in the 21st Century?
All Learning Is Hybrid Learning: The Idea of ‘The Organizing Technology’
It Depends ­– On the Economics of Education
Steve Eskow: An Open E-University
The Campus: The Old Imperialism?
The 375-Billion Dollar Question. And the New Agora

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Dr. Lynn Zimmerman
Professor Emerita, Education, Purdue University
lwzimmer@pnw.edu

Lynn Zimmerman earned a BA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master’s of Science in Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master’s of Science in TESOL at Shenandoah University, and a PhD in Curriculum
and Teaching at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Before taking early retirement, she taught educational foundations, and TESOL
(Teaching English to Learners of Other Languages) licensure courses at the
undergraduate and graduate levels in the College of Education at Purdue University
Calumet.

In addition to teaching in the US, she has taught internationally for some years in
various capacities. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Poland from 1992-1994
teaching English as a foreign language to Polish high school students. She has returned
to Poland on a number of occasions where she has taught English to Polish high school
students in summer language immersion camps; worked with senior citizens who
wanted to improve their English skills; and conducted workshops for Polish secondary
teachers on teaching about the Holocaust. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship at
the University of Wroclaw in Poland in Spring 2009 which led to her teaching
intercultural communication courses in the Department of Applied Linguistics at
Tischner European University in Krakow, Poland for several semesters.

During academic year 2014-2014, she served as an English Language Fellow at
Aleksander Xhuvani University in Elbasan, Albania where she taught a variety of
courses in the English Language Teachers Master’s program, including Research
Methods, Technology & Teaching English, Second Language Acquisition, and English
Teaching Methods. Then she was a Fulbright Scholar in Fall 2015 at Baranovichi State
University in Baranovichi, Belarus and in Spring 2016 at the International Relations
Institute of Moldova in Chisinau, Moldova. She has been an English Language
Specialist in Chad, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan focusing on EFL (English as a Foreign
Language) training. Most recently, she served as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at
Marie Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

Zimmerman’s research interests are varied, reflecting her work in diversity and
language issues. Zimmerman is a frequent speaker at regional, national, and
international conferences, and has written numerous articles on topics as varied as
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) issues, immigration, race, gender
issues, and Holocaust education.

ETC Publications

 How I Use AI As a Teacher-Trainer
 F2F Teaching: Is One Mask Enough?
 Mute That Zoom, Please
 What’s Going On As School-age Children Are Staying at Home?
 Stuck in Tashkent with Questions About Online Teaching: A COVID-19 Response
 Messaging Apps
 ‘Buzzy’s Adventures in Online Privacy’ — A Review
 The Future of AI in Education?
 Teaching with Technology; Preventing Online Grooming
 Motivation in Online Learning, Online Pronunciation Resources, Mobile Technology
 Technology Integration, Online Privacy, UX Design
 Frameworks for Ed Tech Integration: SAMR and TPACK
 The Thai Cave Rescue: Implications for Teacher Education?
 Two Frameworks for 21st Century Skills
 A Look at TeacherTube: A YouTube Alternative
 To Code or Not to Code
 Digital Tools and Adaptive Technology
Digital Storytelling and Authenticity
‘A Child’s Relationships with Technology’
Do Mobile Devices Harm Toddlers’ Speech Development?
Digital Literacy Does Not Mean Critical Thinking
QR Codes — Mystery Solved
Computational Thinking, LiuLiShuo & Audiobooks
How Can Technology Enhance Language Learning?
How Can I Present a Better Webinar?
Gavin Dudeney on Technology and Teaching English
English on the Internet, Game-based Learning, Kids’ Coding
Got a Technology Question? Ask a Librarian
Smartphones, Tablets & Subtitles for Language Learning
Language Learning: Games, Social Media, and Apps
Poverty, Reading, and Technology
Making Literacy More Personal for Kids
Who Are Your Tech-Sperts?
A Proposal for Change in Our Current Model for Higher Ed
My Changing Expectations About Social Media: Facebook
International Students and the Need for LMS Orientations
Chat Rooms, Emoji, ELLs, ABCmouse
Social Media in TESOL: An Interview with John Wasko
Technology in Early Education: An Interview with Katie Paciga
Lessons from Large-scale Digital Curators
Digital Storytelling for Social Change
Language Is a Barrier to Digital Equality
Technology Advice for First Year International Students in US Colleges
Using GIS and GPS Technology as Teaching Tools?
Textbooks, Emoticons, Assessment, Technology
Digital Privacy, ELL, Smartphones and GPA, Language and Smell
Technology and Our Health
Literacy, Bullying, North Korea
Video Games, Smartphones, Language Learning, Technology and Learning
MOOCs, Skills vs. Tools, Games, Learning in the Digital World
All Rise! – Ergonomics and Back Pain
Free Reading and eReaders Can Raise Achievement
Reading, Vocabulary, Glogster, Funding, ESL Teachers, VoiceThread
Free Higher Ed, 21st Century Learning, ELLs, Standardized Tests
Introduction to ‘Jewish Studies and Holocaust Education in Poland’ by Lynn Zimmerman with introduction by Jim Shimabukuro
Multilingual MOOCs, Animating Textbooks, Innovative Ideas, Social Media Concerns, Internet Safety
‘Providence Talks’ – A Tech-Based Boost to Kindergarten Readiness
Learning: Transformational, Flipped, Enhanced, Distracted
USC Shoah Foundation: Video Challenge for Grades 6-12
‘Teaching Digital Natives’: Difference Between ‘Relevant’ and ‘Real’
MOOCs, Ted Underwood, CALL Overview, netTrekker, Special Needs, Language Learning
‘Teaching History in the Digital Age’ – Call for a New Breed of Teachers
Interactive Holographic Images Preserve Stories of Holocaust Survivors
Evidence Approaches, Language Teaching Online, Literacy Skills, Parent Support for Tech
‘The Shallows’ – The Web Is Changing Our Brains
Internet English, NSF’s Cyberlearning, Trace Effects 3D, STEM and Minorities
Verbling, Touchscreens, Tablets, Smartphones etc.
Formative Assessment and Blended Learning, Texting, Bullying, MOOCs
Are Games Such As ‘Angry Birds’ Appropriate for Kids?
Flipped, Blended, Distracted
The Latest Technologies Bump into Obsolete Laws
 Sep. 20, 2012: Teachers & Technology, iPad Study, Video Sites, Computer Tutoring
Sep. 6, 2012: Grammar and Texting, Flipped Classrooms, iPods, iPads
Pinterest: A Quick and Easy Tool to Gather Web Materials
August 21, 2012 – Education in 2020, DCL, Tech Costs
Greg Green Is Flippin’ in Clinton
Udacity and Implications for Higher Ed
Social Media Is a Minefield for Educators
Plagiarism: Alive and Kicking in Academia
A Talk with Janet Buckenmeyer on Issues in Online Course Development
Grodzka Gate – A Portal to Our Past
Integration of Pedagogy and Technology in Teacher Education: An Interview with Emily Hixon
Are Online Discussions a Form of Writing or Speaking – or Something Altogether Different?
Questions About Teacherless Online Classes
Critical Importance of Social Interaction in Online Courses
A Lesson from Haiti: Despite the Lack of IT, Learning Happens
What Can We Do About Low Returns for Online Student Evaluations?
Are Low Returns the Norm for Online Student Evaluations?
PLENK2010 – How Can PLEs Benefit My Students?
HOT@ ETAI – Day 2: English Teachers Association of Israel
HOT@ ETAI – English Teachers Association of Israel
Online Self-Publishing: Wave of the Future?
Learning Styles and the Online Student: Moving Beyond Reading
The Holocaust and Technology
Twitter Could Drive You Cuckoo
‘College for $99 a Month’ – Persons Are Important, Presence Is Not?
Computers in the Classroom Can Be Boring
ESL/EFL Teachers and How They Use Technology
A Digital Educator in Poland
Hybrid, Online, or F2F – It Depends
Access: The New Imperialism?
Resistance to Technology: Conscious or Unconscious?

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President
Smart Science® Education Inc.

Dr. Harry Keller founded Smart Science® Education Inc. in 1981 and incorporated in 1983. After 15 years of providing contract consulting services mostly to Fortune 500 companies, he and his partner created the Smart Science® technologies to provide high-quality science learning experiences to students through the Internet. The system now has 200 online experiential science lessons with real experiments and hands-on measurement covering all major sciences for grades 3-14, and its core technologies have been patented.

Smart Science® lessons are now being used across New York City in over 200 elementary, middle, and high schools. It’s also in colleges, in online schools, and other traditional schools everywhere.

Mars Rhapsody, a novel by Harry Keller

Dr. Keller earned his BS in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology and his PhD in analytical chemistry from Columbia University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Colorado State University, he was hired as an assistant professor of chemistry at Northeastern University. He has also served as chair of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society and as a reviewer for Analytical Chemistry. In the computer industry, Keller has worked as a principal programmer and software development manager for Digital Equipment Corporation and was vice president at Access Technology.

Dr. Keller focuses his energies on supporting learning through the innovative use of Internet technologies and on providing quality learning experiences to students in poor rural areas and in underserved urban communities. Currently that focus involves science.

He also enjoys writing as you can see from the many articles published here and his first novel, Mars Rhapsody. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking in various Southern California mountains.

Update 7/6/18: In its first entry into the eight-year-old educational technology EdTech Digest contest, Smart Science Education Inc. walked away with first place honors in the Science Solution division. EdTech Digest, in making this award commented, “Authentic, hands-on learning, thoughtful experiments; works on any device. Stimulates students to really get concepts essential to inquiry and discovery style science and to own their learning. Pedagogically sound; teachers love it.” This small, family owned and operated company does all of its development and support in the United States. The patented process ensures optimum learning in an online setting, focusing more on the concepts than on the facts, procedures, and vocabulary of science.

ETC Publications

 The Singularity Is an Illusion
I argue that technological growth is inherently limited…
Is Wrightwood Cursed?
Other homes had virtual rivers flowing through them…
 Are Interstellar Visitors Really Alien Ships?
Would an alien civilization send such large and visible ships to our solar system?
 The Fast Curve Ball
No matter how long a couple lives together, it’s never long enough for those who love each other.
Under Fire
Every year, we worry about wildfires.
My Observatory Odyssey – Part 6
Ed, my son, and I carried one half-wall up that steep hill and decided that one was enough.
My Observatory Odyssey – Part 5
Let me tell you about over-excavation…
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: May 29
I do feel some trepidation about these visits to my doctor and dentist.
My Observatory Odyssey – Part 4
We are stopped cold by someone who reviews septic systems.
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: May 12
We will endure. We will prevail. We shall overcome.
My Observatory Odyssey – Part 3
The unexpected costs just kept mounting.
My Observatory Odyssey – Part 2
This was to be the first of many skirmishes with the county officials.
My Observatory Odyssey – Part 1
I have had to learn some real patience in my quest for a mountain cabin as well as an observatory.
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: May 6
How can I bear this combination of selfishness and ignorance in my fellow citizens?
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: May 4
I live in a community of 36,000. I will be moving to one of 4,500.
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: April 26
For others, like myself, with small businesses, I offer a bit of advice…
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: April 23
Explore cooking dishes that use what you have on hand.
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: April 15
Today, I made some chapati, an easily made flatbread.
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: April 12
Going to stores right now is tantamount to going out in the worst part of a hurricane.
Our Future World When COVID-19 Is Over?
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: April 9
I will stay as far as possible from others…
Grocery-store Workers Are Risking Their Lives to Stay Alive
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: April 6
I…peeked at the front porch to see four large brown paper bags.
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: April 3
My primary problem…two older people living together alone.
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: April 1
The richest, most “entitled” communities have the most viral spread.
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: March 29
Yesterday…I had visits from both of my children and a walk with my wife.
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: March 27
I have been around for a long time…and have never seen anything even close to this situation.
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: March 25
We are in a virtual bunker now. No more outdoor excursions until Sunday.
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: March 24
My sympathies go out to the workers in these stores…
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: March 22
The store was limiting purchases of ground beef, beef, and paper products to two…
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: March 21
Seniors…having first crack at the shelves that have been stocked overnight.
My Life in LA County During COVID-19: March 20
When checking out, some of our goods were confiscated!
Smart Science® Labs 90-day Free Access: A COVID-19 Response
Memories of Computers Past
 Remote Proctoring Services: An Interview with PSI Bridge’s Rory McCorkle
Three Most Important Takeaways from the Thai Cave Rescue
Science Is Not the Friend of Thai Cave Soccer Team
What’s With Our Educators and Police?
Creativity Is Thinking Deeper
The Paleo Diet Belongs in Caves: What You Really Need to Know About Diets
Deus What?
The End of Dark Energy
Robots in Movies
Dark Matter Clues
Mars One Fizzles?
Life on Frozen Moons
Does SETI Make Sense? Part IV: Communicating
Does SETI Make Sense? Part III: Evolution
Does SETI Make Sense? Part II: Life
Does SETI Make Sense? Part I: Numbers
New Exoplanets Very Old
The Science of Deflategate
The Imitation Game: A Cautionary Tale
‘Better Than Earth’? – Baloney
Weary Professors Abandon Technology?
What Sort of Intelligence?
‘Big Hero 6′ Delights and Challenges
Stellar Movie Fudges Science”
‘The Theory of Everything’ – A Hollywood Take on Science
The Future of Tablets — and More
Technology Is a Partial Answer to Improving Teacher Quality
The ‘Fury’ of War Tanks
Disney Animation Embraces Science
Global Literacy XPRIZE Invites Comments
Disney and XPRIZE Unite to Encourage Students to Think Science
Seven Fallacies of Teaching Programming in K-12
Study Shows College Education Often Worthless
The XPRIZE Innovation Competitions
Real Aliens: What Will They Look Like?
Dinosaurs Among Us?
Martian Rhapsody: Chapter 2 – Rocks
Unite or Die
Mars One and Islam Incompatible?
Nye v. Ham: What Is ‘Science’?
Thinking About UFOs and Alien Visits
Mars One Steps Up
Making Mistakes and Learning
Teaching About Global Warming
Space Heats Up
Mars One Delayed for Two Years
Mars: One-Way or Round-Trip?
A Caltech Grad in a Caltech MOOC, Part 5
A Caltech Grad in a Caltech MOOC, Part 4
Acronym in Cheek: STEM, STEAM…
A Caltech Grad in a Caltech MOOC, Part 3
A Caltech Grad in a Caltech MOOC, Part 2
A Caltech Grad in a Caltech MOOC
Martian Rhapsody: Chapter 1 – Landing (REVISED)
‘Inspiration Mars’ Inspires
Hyperloop: Is It Better, Faster, and Cheaper?
Broadband for Schools: Do We Need Gbps Bandwidth?
Free Textbooks for College?
Textbooks Are Zombies
Wholesale Adoption of iPads by Schools a Mistake
Is the LEAD Commission Right About Education Technology?
Technology Bang for Buck
Farnsworth’s Fusion: What’s It All About?
Martian Rhapsody: Chapter 1 – Landing
Mars – A New Beginning
Mars One: Exciting Adventure or Hoax?
Robert E. Yager Discusses ‘Hands-On’ Science Education
Next Generation Science Standards Fall Flat
Is Building Apps for Everyone?
Need More Software Engineers? Teach Thinking Skills Better
Blame Poorly Designed Technology Instead of Teacher Training
The Real Story on Online Science Labs
For Schools, Laptops Are Still Better Than Tablets
What Can Tomorrow’s Students Expect?
Teaching Science Teachers Science
NAEP and the Future of Science Education
How Anti-Evolution Helps to Define Science
Ravitch Ravages Reforms
Edinburgh Manifesto: A Disturbing Subtext
Evolution Still Under Attack After 150 Years
Hawaii Teachers Reject RTT: What Did Arne Expect?
U.S. Education Is Getting Worse, Not Better
We Can Fix Our Public Schools If We Care Enough
Learning Software – Must Move Beyond the Trivial
Instructional Technologists Are Needed in K-16
The Arts Is Not Only About Music
The Importance of Tacit Knowledge in Science Educators
A Comment on Lessig’s e-G8 Talk
Rupert Murdoch on the Money About Importance of Software
Real Changes in Education Are Rare
Science Education and Society
Science Fairs Failing?
Algebra and the iPad
Learning to Learn, Learning to Teach
Information Overload and Education
Fixing Middle School Science and Math
Breaking Down Barriers
‘Learning by Playing’: Seven Tips for Game Designers
Technological Literacy: The Key to Education Reform
Time to Push the Ed Reform Pendulum Sideways
Is ‘Technology Expert’ an Oxymoron?
‘Computer Science’ Contains Little or No Science
Leaders Must Be Visionary Risk-takers to Change Our Schools
A Response to Marc Prensky’s ‘Simple Changes’
Flight of the ‘Solar Impulse’ – Educationally Relevant?
The Latest Whiz-Bang Gadgets vs. Real Change
Universities Vanishing?
Retort: Opportunities to Learn from Oil Spills
Retort: The Challenge for Our Schools: Thomas Friedman and Education
Retort: Thomas H. Huxley on Teaching Science
Retort: Berkeley High School May Eliminate Science Labs
Retort: Deconstructing STEM
Retort: The Best of Education, the Worst of Education
Interactive Whiteboards – Fix or Fad?
i3 Funding Process Unfair to Small Businesses
Tough Decisions for Extraordinary Times
Effective Leaders Challenge Teachers to Continually Grow
Investing in Innovation Fund: Criteria May Be a Barrier to Some Innovators
Science Labs and Accessibility
Science Labs Don’t Have to Cost an Arm and a Leg
A Review of ‘The Opportunity Equation’
Can Virtual Labs Replace Hands-On?
India Steps Forward in Science Education
Science Education Retrospective
If We Don’t, Someone Else Will
Innovation in Education: What? How?
Ineffective Use of Computers in Schools
Making a Case for Online Science Labs
Simulated Labs Are Anathema to Most Scientists

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Teacher and Translator, Noi Media

Claude Almansi has been a member of Noi Media, a project advocating the use of information and communication technologies (ICT)-and Web 2.0 tools in particular-in Swiss schools, and is presently organizing director and editor of Webmultimediale, a project exploring creative applications of Web accessibility, founded by Roberto Ellero. She has taught French and English as foreign languages in middle schools, secondary schools, and universities in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Switzerland.

Almansi is also a translator who has translated texts from several fields. Earlier in her career, she concentrated on literary works and essays; in the last 10 years, her translations have focused on the use of ICT in education. Her own interest in the uses of ICT in schools arose from these translations and from the conviction that technology simplifies work, education, and life in general, and can provide significant support for equal rights for all, particularly equal rights of access to training.

Almansi earned a Licence-ès-lettres (akin to a BA) at Geneva University and a postgraduate diploma in conference interpretation techniques at the Polytechnic of Central London (now University of Westminster).

ETC Publications

Belgian Newspapers v. Google: Text of the Court of Appeal’s Decision
Tactile Learning: Italian and US Experiences
Copyright and Disability: WIPO Consensus Document
Infographics: Problems and Opportunities
‘YouTube Copyright School’ – Remixed and Mixed Up
Lessig: The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge – Call for Subtitlers
Connective Learning: Challenges for Learners, Teachers, and Educational Institutions
IFPI, P2P and an Article that Disappeared
NFB: NYU, Northwestern and Other Schools Adopting Google Apps Discriminate Against the Blind
Beware of Privacy and Other Issues When Signing Up for Free Courses
Cyberbullying: An Interview with Nancy Willard
Info Literacy: Julian Assange’s Statement for the Feb. 4, 2011 Melbourne Rally
Learning from Doctorow’s ‘With a Little Help’
Expertnet Wiki for the White House OpenGov Initiative
Of Cows, Captions and Copyright: Users Need the Right to Caption and Subtitle Videos for Access and Learning
How to Report Phishing?
ICE’s Seizures of Domain Names Concern Us All
‘Operation In Our Sites II’ – Out of Sight for the Blind
Metaphors for ‘University’ – A Survey
‘Locked’ Ning Networks? Access, Copyright and Privacy
Why Unjoin Ning Networks that Won’t Pay
Ning’s New Deadline for Pay-Only: Aug. 30
Ning’s Self-Contradictions
‘Emerging Technologies in Distance Education’ ed. by George Veletsianos
Italy: Teachers’ Manifesto
e-Book Readers: Attempting to Bugger the Blind is Bad for Business
Easy Captioning for UNESCO’s World Heritage Videos on YouTube
UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Copyright Committee – 14th Session
Facebook Is Unfit for Educational Use
UNESCO, World Anti-Piracy Observatory and YouTube
End of Free Ning Networks: Live Online Discussion: Apr. 20th
E-rara.ch: Ancient Books, Public Domain and Moral Barriers
YouTube, Geoblocks and Proxies
Online Multimedia: Italian Imperialism
Accessibility and Literacy: Two Sides of the Same Coin
ITForum Discussion on Accessibility
OT Phishing Scam via Twitter
Prix Möbius Suisse Rewards Inaccessible Flash Site
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Educational Consultant
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After a lifetime in education, John Adsit semi-retired to a role as an independent educational consultant specializing in online education. He was most recently theexecutive manager of curriculum at KC Distance Learning, where he worked to ensure that the curriculum design used in KCDL’s three divisions—Aventa Learning, iQ Academies, and Keystone National High School—adheres to the best practices for student success.

Adsit spent many years as a high school English teacher before working in the central administration of Jefferson County schools in Colorado. Working in curriculum and instruction, Adsit performed a variety of functions for Jefferson County schools, with the consistent theme of bringing the latest thinking in educational theory to the district’s classrooms. That role led him to begin working with online education in 1995, and within a few years he had founded and administered JeffcoNet Academy, one of the state’s first public online schools.

Adsit helped oversee the creation of state content standards and other reforms as a member of the Colorado Education Goals Task Force. He served on several statewide task forces related to the development of online education, and he cofounded Colorado Online Learning, the state’s official online course provider.

After his retirement from public education, Adsit joined Aventa Learning, then a start-up online education provider. He served as Director of Curriculum and Instruction as the company grew, and when Aventa Learning joined the KC Distance Learning family, he moved to the parent company to oversee curriculum design. He is also active in the North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL), and in that role he co-authored the NACOL white paper “Goals, Guidelines, and Standards for Student Scientific Investigations.” He is a frequent presenter at national conferences for online education.

ETC Publications

Warning Signs at Tham Luang and Similar Caves: A Complex Issue
Thai Cave Rescue Media Coverage: Notable for the Most Part
Thailand Cave Rescue via Diving Is a Daunting Challenge
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Failed Expectations: The Problem of P-12 Online Programs
The Real Issue in Ed Tech May Be Maintenance
No Satisfaction in Finding on Online vs. Traditional Science Classes
What Will Drive the Future of Educational Technology?
Remote Proctoring Services May Not Be Necessary
‘Asians in the Library’: The Value of Social Networking
We Can’t Teach ‘Critical Thinking’ Until We Learn How to Assess It
Meeting the Needs: ‘Academically Adrift’: Helping College Students Learn
Meeting the Needs: Quality Online Discussion Needs a Quality Assessment System
Meeting the Needs: Praise of Folly: STEM Faces Stiff Opposition in American Culture
Online Marine Science Program Hooks Students Through Diving
Meeting the Needs: Internet Information Access Transforms Instruction
Brockton Success a Collaborative Walk Down a Proven Path
The Euphonium Conundrum and the Online Option
Administrators Don’t Have Time to Keep Up with Ed Tech
Innovation Requires Subject Area Expertise
Meeting the Needs: An Educational Reform Story: The Power of Expectations
Education Reform – Fighting the Conspiracy for Mediocrity
What Is Needed for Educational Change
Faculty and Students Need Training to Succeed in Online Classes
Flight of the ‘Solar Impulse’ – Educationally Relevant?
Meeting the Needs: A Prayer for Jennifer
Meeting the Needs: Hybrid Learning Faces Unthinking Opposition
Meeting the Needs: Social Networking and the Secondary Student
Meeting the Needs: Threat of Lawsuits on Social Networking Sites
Meeting the Needs: Tech Support – Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter
The Great Technology Controversy Follows Me into the Caves
Meeting the Needs: Successful Learning: A Matter of Both ‘What’ and ‘When’
A Technological Solution to Prerequisite Skills
Meeting the Needs: Solving the Problem of Learning Styles
Meeting the Needs: If Education Is to Succeed
Job Security Is a Powerful Argument Against Change
Collaborative Leadership Is Essential for Change
Teacher Skills Critical for Success in Online Classes
‘College for $99 a Month’ – A Step in the Right Direction
Why Is Transformational Leadership So Elusive?
Poetic Faith—the Magic of Belief
Needed – A Professional Approach to Teaching
Old School Thinking Blocks Quality Online Science Classes
Technology Must Be Based on Quality Instructional Practice

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