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Ben Thompson wrote a new post, Course 2 Final Project AUP, on the site Teacher Thompson 1 week, 2 days ago
For the final project an impromptu cohort formed at Taipei American School to brainstorm, collaborate, and create a new AUP for grades 3-5. Rock Hudson, Michelle Lawgun, Andrew Vicars, James Couch, and Rick Monge […] -
Ben Thompson commented on the post, Google Drive controversy, on the site Tackling the Technology World 2 weeks, 2 days ago
I read Google’s Terms and Agreements for googlesites a few years and was under the impression that content produced in Google’s suite of apps like googlesites and google docs was not considered one’s own […]
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Ben Thompson commented on the post, My Husband is a Pirate, on the site Tackling the Technology World 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Rocka,
Here’s some of my recent original thoughts about piracy (some might seem familiar):
14 years ago I left New Zealand to come to Taipei. The only experience I had of Asia before Taiwan was a 48 hour […]
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Ben Thompson commented on the post, Copyright in a Friction-less Web, on the site New Mistakes 2 weeks, 2 days ago
I like how you turned Zuckerberg’s words on his head. Although I understand your grandfather’s horror at learning that musicians are robbed daily, I also wonder about the questions you asked:
“By constantly […]
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Ben Thompson commented on the post, The Higher Ground, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Julie,
Actually, I see the corrosiveness of living against the law coming from issues of pirated content, but also from the nefarious practices of tracking of our online lives by Google and the like and the […]
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Ben Thompson commented on the post, The Higher Ground, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Brad,
Sure, iRip. People are pretty cavalier about duplicating music. I used to record my friends albums onto cassette tapes. I had hundreds of tapes. Using iRip is the digital equivalent but the volume and […]
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Ben Thompson commented on the post, “The Death of Education, The Dawn of Learning”, on the site Riding On Our COETAILs 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Clint,
Right on. The messiness of collaboration is where the wisdom will grow. Education is as much about the social interaction of people working together as it is about obtaining knowledge. Dewey and Vygosky […]
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Ben Thompson wrote a new post, Getting Lost, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 weeks, 2 days ago
When I was an undergraduate at Vassar College in 1990, I remember reading about hyperlinks. Keep in mind that in 1990 there was no email yet, I had not yet used the internet yet, and computers were used by […]
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Ben Thompson wrote a new post, It Takes a Village to Raise a Bully, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Catchy title, eh? What I am realizing as I see, read, and watch so much about cyber-bullying is that bullies exist within communities. It was reassuring to watch the Frontline documentary “Growing Up Online,” and […] -
Ben Thompson wrote a new post, The Higher Ground, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Here’s a “joke” my wife told recently:In Hong Kong everything is allowed unless the law doesn’t allow it.
In Singapore everything is not allowed, unless the law allows it.
In Taiwan everything is allowed […] -
Ben Thompson wrote a new post, Digital Empowerment, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 weeks, 2 days ago
(Course 2, Week 1)Googling Myself
Reading for this course, of course, got me curious about my own digital footprint and its resonation on the internets. As an international educator, it really is not a […]
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Ben Thompson wrote a new post, The Queasy Compromise, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 weeks, 2 days ago
The Rub
Watching Eli Pariser’s TEDtalk about how Google and Facebook track our interests, purchases, and meanderings on the web was something I had become aware of a while back. Like many I initially […]
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Ben Thompson wrote a new post, Course 1 Final Project: Memoir Writing, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 months ago
This course has included both the building of blogs and networks as well as reflecting on our work as teachers. For my final project I am focusing on a unit that asks students to do something quite similar. I […]
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Ben Thompson wrote a new post, Be Less Helpful, Go Slow, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 months, 1 week ago
As I watched Dan Meyer’s video, I reflected on a converasation I had with a colleague the other day. We are teaching the same science unit, and he asked if I had given the assessment yet. I admitted that I […]
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Ben Thompson commented on the post, Shaping the Classroom for Tech, on the site Full Court Press 2 months, 1 week ago
Jack-
I agree with you that we “don’t see many of those teachers in the international setting.” I taught in Texas for ten years and saw a few. I think what breaks a lot of teachers and causes them to be […]
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Ben Thompson commented on the post, My Role, on the site My Journey Through CoETaIL 2 months, 1 week ago
Shane,
I was reading your post, and when you wrote about using technology to cheat on assessments it reminded me of something funny. In fifth grade at Taipei American School, we use the Califonia FOSS science […]
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Ben Thompson commented on the post, Patient Problem Solving in Real Life, on the site Behind the Closed Door 2 months, 1 week ago
Hey Tara,
Remember when we tried to get your students to create videos about language usage at Lincoln? I think that was some attempt to be authentic and give students something real to do, to reflect on, and […]
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Ben Thompson wrote a new post, The New Things, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 months, 1 week ago
So much of what I read in Marc Prensky’s Adopt and Adapt: Shaping Tech for the Classroom rang true with what’s been going on at school lately. As I read, I noted several scenarios that fit with the middle […]
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Ben Thompson wrote a new post, My Digital Infants, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 months, 1 week ago
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Ben Thompson wrote a new post, Skeptical, But Open, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 months, 1 week ago
I am at a point where I am skeptical about the claims that digital tools and connectedness are a radical paradigm shift in how we learn. I am open to the idea that there may be something inherently […]
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