Tryggvi Thayer, Ph.D.
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Category Archives: Information Society
Youth and ICTs: Response to a criticism of Thai tablet PC program
Veena Thoopkrajae has an article on The Nation criticizing a plan to give all Thai grade 1 students a free tablet PC. Thoopkrajae claims that there are more pressing issues in Thai education and that the tablet PC program is … Continue reading
Creating old meaning: When new concepts are repurposed to mask an absence of change.
Michael Fullan (see The New Meaning of Educational Change) argues that the key to educational change is the creation of new, shared meaning to define novel contexts that help us address issues of concern. Through the decades we’ve seen a … Continue reading
Bits and pieces from around the web
Here’s a quick summary of interesting things that I’ve been posting on my facebook page recently that are no less relevant to this blog. Here’s an interesting article looking at the Summerhill School through the experiences of former students. The … Continue reading
Norwegian professor says that teachers must be on Facebook to understand students
Legislators in Missouri, USA, recently passed a law that forbids teachers from socializing with students using social web sites. Meanwhile, Arne Krokan, a Norwegian professor specializing in technology and society, claims that teachers must be on Facebook if they are … Continue reading
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My response to Clay Shirky regarding his claims about news as a public good
Clay Shirky recently published an article on his blog about the impact of information technology on news publishing. As is often the case with Shirky’s writings, it’s been causing considerable waves on the Internet. Basically, Shirky’s point is that there … Continue reading
The Delphi survey method: Towards a cheap, “quick & dirty” approach for educational organizations
In this article I describe my process of discovering the Delphi survey method for technology forecasting and future planning. I draw from some of the available scholarly literature to describe how the Delphi method has evolved. In particular, I discuss … Continue reading
