Marie Bjerede
Marie Bjerede is a writer, speaker, and champion for education transformation. She believes people acting as independent agents can collaborate to get more done and live happier lives. She's seen, first-hand, how technology co-evolves with that model. She thinks a lot about how students, citizens, and employees can take ownership of their work and create force multipliers for productivity, creativity, and happiness. Marie has spent a quarter century in the wireless communication industry working in many roles -- from embedded software coder to leadership geek to education advocate. From this front-row seat to the wireless revolution, she's seen mobile broadband bring the transformative potential of the Internet to industries and communities. But she's also watched as schools have been left behind. With her wireless communication background, she's now challenging technical, economic, social, and systemic obstacles.
Don't get stuck in Edu 2010
A literal adoption of the National Education Technology Plan could undermine future tech use.
The National EdTech Plan aspires to bring together the best of what we know of teaching and learning with the very best technology has to offer in 2010, yet we can be certain that technology will offer even more in 2012, 2015, and 2020.
Educational technology needs to grow like a weed
Want to scale education reform? Plant a tech seed and help it flourish.
Iterative development and feedback loops have lifted the software world. Now it's time for educational technology and reform to benefit from the same techniques.
iPad 3G and the vacancy of the connected textbook
The iPad 3G takes a small step toward fulfilling the promise of connected textbooks, but there's a lot more work to do.
The 21st-century textbook
Future textbooks could improve update cycles and create feedback loops
With new technologies constantly coming on-line, and with states like California, Texas, and Oregon allowing digital curriculum to replace printed curriculum, the question arises: what will textbooks look like in the coming years? Here's a few clues.
Cell phones in the classroom
Surprising field studies suggest cell phones could be effective learning tools
Guest blogger Marie Bjerede examines field projects that are studying the educational use of cell phones. In one limited example, 50 percent of students doing lessons by cell phone had higher math proficiency than classmates who learned the same material from the same teacher.