Frank Catalano
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Seattle, WA, United States
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Attitudes About Homeschooling May Get Unexpected Boost From a Year of Remote Learning
Remote instruction may have raised acceptance of school that happens at home. STEM courses in higher education need labs, but that doesn’t mean labs ... → Read More
How Library Closures Hurt Adult Learners as Kids Doubled Down on Digital Reading
Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational ... → Read More
Remote Learning Is Here to Stay, Raising Concerns About Teacher Training and Data Privacy
Online learning efforts may remain even when the pandemic fades away. Teachers’ confidence wavers in using edtech for instruction. Perhaps (not) ... → Read More
Pandemic Spurs Changes in the Edtech Schools Use, From the Classroom to the Admin Office
Top reported teachers’ apps have adapted to meet pandemic purposes. Home may be the new classroom, but instructional approaches are slower to change. ... → Read More
Surveys Find Districts Are Using More Edtech Tools — and Teachers Are Bearing the Costs
“Virtual” learning may be on the upswing—corporate VR learning, that is. Teachers are paying out of pocket for edtech tools while using more of them. ... → Read More
Learning Loss Is Everywhere. But How Do the Reports Compare?
Learning loss is everywhere—and so are reports detailing the setbacks. As some schools reopen, edtech product use declines. And “non-traditional” ... → Read More
Edtech Reports Recap: Video Is Eating the World, Broadband Fails to Keep Up
The broadband gap isn’t only a problem for remote learning. “Early childhood” videos on YouTube nearly all have advertising. And as video dominates ... → Read More
Edtech Reports Recap: Pandemic Priorities, Campus Survival and Tech Gaps
The pandemic as an opportunity in higher education—and as a measure of continuing gaps for K-12 students. Plus, your fourth grader will exceed you. All ... → Read More
Who’s Zoomin’ Who? Remote Education Conference Woes and Wows
I have literally seen one future of education conferences. And I hope, for all of our sakes, it’s not the dystopia I’ve viewed through Zoom. Three ... → Read More
‘Back to School’ Hijinks and Lessons for the Education Industry
About 1,200 adults in uniform went “Back to School” yesterday. No, not to their wooden desks, blue books and plastic seats. But to BMO’s annual ... → Read More
Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Opinionated Guide to Changing Edtech Industry Conferences
ASU GSV. SIIA. SXSW EDU.No, these are not scattered arrangements of alphabet blocks from an especially precocious early learning classroom. They’re ... → Read More
Analysis: Is Higher Ed Ready for the Tech Expectations of the Teens of 2022?
One overused catchphrase in education is that learning should be “student-centered.” But what if we took that to its logical conclusion and also made ... → Read More
Turning Steve Jobs’ life into opera: Balancing man, myth and the technology that changed everything
It was not the project that Mark Campbell had been dreaming about. “It was actually Mason Bates, the composer, who suggested the idea of Steve Jobs as an opera,” recalled Campbell, a librettist whose earlier work received a Pulitzer Prize in Music. “And I went, ‘Oh God, no.’ Because my impression of… → Read More
Returning to journalism, 30 years later: Can the profession’s standards survive its disruption?
Many people don’t have a clue how journalism works. Journalists may have less access to events and their newsmakers than the general public does. All this for a career with limited job options. Those are the headlines from my recent temporary return to full-time journalism after a several-decade… → Read More
Hands-on with Bottomless coffee: Can the internet really keep refilling a caffeine addict’s endless cup?
In my home, we’d rather run out of toilet paper than fresh coffee. The former can be replaced by facial tissue. But nothing adequately substitutes for the latter as a kickstart to our get-up-before-dawn day. So when I heard of Bottomless’ solution to home caffeine deprivation, I had to give it a… → Read More
Geared Up: Alexa from end to end, a hot-selling Elon Musk keepsake, and more crazy moments of 2018
A voice-activated microwave. A smart toilet. And a flamethrower … not. Those products represent a handful of the highlights for our Geared Up gadget geeks from 2018. → Read More
John Legere all but confirms T-Mobile TV’s launch will be delayed to 2019, and promises ‘real, live’ 5G
T-Mobile CEO John Legere is outlining how he sees 2019, and it’s a vision of 5G, taking on cable and satellite TV, and continued jabs at the company’s mobile competitors. In a blog post Thursday morning, Legere unveiled his “top 10” predictions for the year ahead. Perhaps the most significant was… → Read More
Interview: NYPL’s chief digital officer says public is better off when libraries are ‘risk averse’ about tech
First: It’s not just about digitizing books. That’s the biggest misconception that the public has about the role of digital technology in libraries, according to the chief digital officer of what is arguably the world’s largest public library. New York Public Library’s Tony Ageh was recently in… → Read More
Amazon reports ‘record-breaking’ holiday season with its own devices selling ‘millions more’
If you bought an Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote, or Echo as a gift — or received one — you’re not alone. Amazon says those are among its best-selling Amazon devices this holiday season, a season in which it now says customers bought “millions more” Amazon devices than last… → Read More
Analysis: Microsoft, Google, Apple — why is Amazon the lagging tech giant in the classroom?
What’s surprising is how inconsistent and even inept Amazon can be when it comes to directly addressing teachers and students with technology for learning. It’s almost as if the company doesn’t realize that educators’ memories, just as students’ educational careers, are long. → Read More