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Faithful readers of this column know that I occasionally will ask authors of books I find interesting to answer a few questions. I am always grateful for these very busy people that take the time …
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November, 2018
October, 2018
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27 October
Tim Holt’s 10 Questions: ‘Future Wise’ Author Dr. David Perkins
Everyone that reads this column knows that – on occasion – I like to interview authors of books that I think my readers should give consideration to. One such book is Future Wise: Educating Our …
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20 October
Tim Holt’s 10 Questions: Sparking Breakthrough Ideas
Warren Berger is author of “A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas.” As many of you know, I love to ask authors of books I am reading, about their thinking …
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13 October
Tim Holt’s 10 Questions: Rewiring Education
John Couch is a former (and FIRST) Apple VP of Education and has written, along with Jason Towne, an excellent primer for anyone that wants to understand how tech can be used properly to transform …
January, 2019
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15 January
Op-Ed: We Need To Treat All of Education As If Computers Exist
Have you ever heard of the app “PhotoMath?” PhotoMath allows anyone with a smartphone or tablet to write out a math problem, point their device at it, take a picture, and the app will solve the …
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8 January
Op-Ed: Where are You Learning to Be Uncomfortable?
“There’s only two things I despise: Those who are intolerant of other people’s cultures… and the Dutch.” —Nigel Powers, Goldmember When I was a much younger man, still in college, I was a bartender at …
December, 2018
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31 December
Op-Ed: The Problem with Learning Technology is Professors That Don’t Understand It
Kirstin R. Wilcox, Lecturer at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is one in a growing long line of higher ed educators that refuse to wrap their big brains around how to use educational technology. Writing …
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25 December
Op-Ed: Jane Pollock PhD. The i5 Approach: Using Technology to Teach Thinking
Several weeks ago I approached Jane E. Pollock, PhD, author of the book “The i5 Approach” and asked if she might write a short guest blog, in lieu of my typical author interviews. She graciously …
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18 December
Op-Ed: What If Educators Had To Face The Press After Testing?
After every professional football game, a press conference is held, where the coaches and select players go in front of the sports reporter and do a dissection of the game. This happens as well in …
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11 December
Op-Ed: On Television, Reality Isn’t So
I am beginning to see a pattern develop that perhaps we can share with our students. Maybe, just maybe, these shows are fake. Reality may not be reality, at least on television. On television: Ghost …
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9 December
Twenty-Two UTEP Student-Athletes to Graduate This Week
Twenty-two past and present UTEP student-athletes will graduate from the university on Saturday, December 15. The list includes 12 representatives from the football program, six from track & field, three from soccer and one from …
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4 December
Op-Ed: The Catch 22 of the International Children’s Digital Library
Chances are, you have never heard of the International Children’s Digital Library. The ICDL is an online repository of books for children ages 3-13, written in over 50 languages. The library has over 4000 books. …
November, 2018
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27 November
Op-Ed: What’s Your Mindset?
In 1998, a group of professors at Beloit College in Wisconsin created a list of experiences that the incoming freshmen class had always had in their lives that their professors may or may not have …
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20 November
Op-Ed: Why Do You Think Criticism Is Hate?
HATE:VERB hates (third person present) · hated (past tense) · hated (past participle) · hating (present participle) feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone). Before you read this, let me make this perfectly clear: I …
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13 November
Op-Ed: You Can Do This With Technology
Whenever you hear someone say that laptops or tablets in education are just “gizmos” just give them this list and ask: How many of these things can students do without tech? See a van Gogh so …
