When technology disengages students from active learning

Technology is always advancing, and it’s tempting to think that advancing technology always presents opportunities for education. I think that’s reasonable in principle, but in practice? In practice, advancing technology often disengages students from the work of active learning — especially when the technology provides a convenience. Consider presentation software, like PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation…

Educational Remixing

There is so much content available on public sites. Students use YouTube as much as any other site to figure things out and deepend their understanding. But we (university educators) are tempted to think of ourselves as instead of YouTube instead of in addition to YouTube. It turns out that instead of creating content of…