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  • Another new adventure: So you wanna be a leader?

    By Christopher Dawson | May 6, 2012, 1:26am PDT

    It’s time that teachers learned to stop selling themselves short. Announcing some very cool professional (and personal) development!

  • Coursera: The new face of higher education? [Video]

    By Christopher Dawson | May 3, 2012, 7:37am PDT

    Kirsten Winkler and I interviewed the founders of Coursera late last week; the two hd

  • More video for you: Ed News Ticker and the money game in education

    By Christopher Dawson | April 26, 2012, 11:35pm PDT

    Video from my new bi-weekly wrapup of interesting ed tech stories with Kirsten Winkler

  • Tablets in education (Video)

    By Christopher Dawson | April 26, 2012, 11:16pm PDT

    Most Wednesdays, I run a live webinar on WizIQ, usually on some ed tech-related topic. I tend not to post the recordings here since there is definitely a commercial element to them (I wouldn’t be much of an evangelist for the company if there wasn’t). However, this week’s webinar ended up being a pretty good [...]

  • Adobe nails the value question with Creative Cloud and announces scholarships to boot

    By Christopher Dawson | April 25, 2012, 7:47am PDT

    Adobe released important research on the value of creativity worldwide; at the same time, they put their money where their mouth is, making Adobe’s Creative Suite much more affordable for schools and students.

  • Battle Royale: Sports vs. Tech - who should win?

    By Christopher Dawson | April 18, 2012, 11:30pm PDT

    The athletic director for our local school district recently took some heat for the sad state of our high school’s track. It was, in fact, some well-justified heat. While you could never tell it from my ever-widening profile (not my Facebook profile or my digital reach, but my physical profile), I ran track in high [...]

  • The Intel Studybook: What an education tablet should be

    By Christopher Dawson | April 10, 2012, 9:00am PDT

    I can almost smell the holy grail…the right hardware, the right ecosystem, the right price. Intel has hit a home run with its Studybook.

  • Video: Talking about rote memorization vs. understanding with iGeneration's Charlie Osborne

    By Christopher Dawson | April 9, 2012, 11:22am PDT

    Last Friday, I had the chance to chat with our own Charlie Osborne, who writes the iGeneration blog here on ZDNet. We talked about her recent post on “The future of education: Memorize or analyse?” on my weekly Edukwest C12 webcast:

    The full episode (episode 3) will be available shortly (including the Blog of the Week [...]

  • Dell's Wyse and Sonicwall acquisitions: Good news for schools

    By Christopher Dawson | April 5, 2012, 12:20am PDT

    Will HP, Apple, Lenovo, and the other major OEMs step up to match Dell’s growing edu ecosystem? And, btw, thin clients are so not dead.

  • My new weekly show for K12 educators

    By Christopher Dawson | March 27, 2012, 1:59am PDT

    More webcasts for you!