technology

In my job as the assistant director of the Graduate Teacher Program I attend many workshops and meetings on how to improve learning in the undergraduate classroom. Recently, it seems I can't attend a meeting without someone saying: “we should be adding technology to the classroom because our undergraduates grew up around technology so they expected it everywhere." Furthermore they say: "our undergraduates are more tech savvy and skilled than we are. Read More »

I have enjoyed photography as a hobby for about 30 years now. I am almost entirely self-taught, though by this point I have read a fairly large number of books and magazines and have taken a couple of short classes. I often marveled at the changes in camera technology over the last 30 years. Many of these changes have often been touted as game changers. I don't know how many game changers I've seen in the last 30 years but one thing they all seem to have in common is that they were gone as fast as they appeared. Read More »