by brholland | Feb 4, 2015 | All Topics, Learning Commons
I just had another post published on Edutopia today. It’s a follow up to the one on 21st Century Libraries from a few weeks ago. The interesting thing about this one is how I wrote it. In many ways, I didn’t! Thanks to some excellent connections, I...
by brholland | Jan 15, 2015 | All Topics
As promised, here’s an announcement about my latest post: 21st Century Libraries: The Learning Commons. It was published last night on Edutopia. A Little Backstory… In November, I had the great opportunity to represent Edutopia on a speaking tour across...
by brholland | Jan 14, 2015 | All Topics, Learning Commons
Libraries have existed since approximately 2600 BCE as an archive of recorded knowledge. From tablets and scrolls to bound books, they have cataloged resources and served as a locus of knowledge. Today, with the digitization of content and the ubiquity of the...
by brholland | Dec 23, 2014 | All Topics, Future Learning
A call to action has been issued: schools and districts need to innovate. This statement is often accompanied by an assertion that teachers need to integrate technology as well as transform instruction. But what does this innovation actually look like? As 2014 comes...
by brholland | Nov 4, 2014 | All Topics, Higher Ed
Recently, a number of articles have surfaced reporting the ineffectiveness of note taking with laptops, in keeping with the findings of Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer detailed in The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard. These authors assert that when students used...