Kevin Gaugler | January 31, 2010
The other day Wesley Fryer had some wonderful comments on his blog about my thoughts on the iPad. I figured I would repost his ideas here along with my response. How do you feel about Apple’s gated model of distribution? Will it ultimately imped access to information and consequently teaching and learning? Wesley Fryer: I [...]
Kevin Gaugler | November 23, 2009
At the ACTFL09 conference I gave a talk entitled “The Technology of Classroom 007: Mobile Computing and Language Instruction”. In it I described a classroom at Marist College, room 007, where I occasionally teach. The irony of its number lies in the fact that it is a basement room, underground with no windows. I therefore [...]
Barbara Lindsey | September 21, 2009
For many of us, these past few weeks marked the beginning of a new academic year. As students returned to campus they brought with them their mobile phones, those ever-present, always-on devices that have become the bane of many an instructor. A few of our faculty, not unlike elsewhere, have suggested an outright ban on [...]