Kevin Gaugler | March 13, 2010
On March 12th I presented a plenary session at the MAALLT-SEALLT 2010 joint conference, in which I shared my thoughts on the concept of thirdspace, the university and teaching as we know it. I first began thinking about thirdness in the context of Spain’s transition from a dictatorship to a democracy and the fiction it [...]
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 | January 27, 2010
Before Apple’s big announcement today, I made a prediction that Apple’s device would disrupt the textbook industry and consequently education, particularly language education, as we know it. Apple has built its iPad on the same popular platform that runs both the iPod Touch and the iPhone and has added a bookstore to its iTunes application [...]