Rethinking School

I attended my favorite conference, Educon, this past weekend.  There was an interesting set of sessions talking about design thinking in schools, and how we could re-imagine the way schools and classrooms are designed, so that they would promote the skills we say we...

The Future of Mobile Computing

This probably should be entitled the future of hands-on computing, but the two are closely related. After playing with the iPad for a few days now, and experimenting with different apps, I think this does present a big step forward in mobile computing, and how this...