The main purpose around my time with the kids was to talk, but more importantly, listen to what they had to say about living in a social media-rich world.

Below are some of the newest features that Eanes ISD will be taking advantage of in order to optimize the use of these tools for learning.

In the spring of 2015, our district passed a bond which included over $5 million for a line item called “Student Mobile Device Initiative.”

After a one year hiatus, I'm excited to return to the School CIO summit. T

I can’t give up meetings completely, but I also noticed within my tenure as an administrator that I spend less and less time on campuses.

Today, I sent home the following letter about sexting and cyberbullying via a couple of different apps that we’ve become privy to here.

This past week wrapped up the spectacle that is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

A School will try a Self-Driving Bus

In January of this year, I made a set often more predictionsthat I thought were sure to go wrong in 2015(remember, “bold” is in the title). Now for the moment of truth, let’s see how I did.

We still have a lot of dinosaurs walking the earth in education, namely the major textbook companies. What is going to happen to them?

What excites me about this year’s event (this Friday, November 6th) is the way the team is ramping up the interaction.

This year, more than ever it seems that the "Big 3" textbook companies are committing digital murder while letting districts deal with cleaning the blood-splattered data off the walls.

The last few challengesare especiallygeared toward real-world problem solving and will hopefully make a dent in those“Tech Problem-solving” stats in the future.

The rise of apps like Meerkat and Periscope have caused me to be both excited and skeptical of their use in education.

San Andreas: Is L.A. falling into the ocean or is it just a device roll-out gone wrong?

Take the site visit portion ofEduCon, the playfulness andinteractionof iPadpalooza, the story sharing of an EdCamp, and sprinkle in some engaging Keynote speakers and you have iEngage.

It’s starting to feel a bit like public ed is a frog slowly boiling in a pot of water.

After some back and forth with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the commissioner, last spring we were granted the ability to pilot using iPads as graphing calculators during the state assessment.

Irecently returned from a trip to the Youth Education & Technology Integration (Y.E.T.I.) conference and let me tell you, this was true greatness manifest in a conference.

Innovation is an annoying pest. It infects organizations and makes people uneasy because it’s usually accompanied by adisease called “change.”

"Live long and prosper." These famous words were often spoken (with accompanied hand salute) by Leonard Nemoy’s most famous character, the cerebral half-Vulcan Mr. Spock.

The latest in hidden photo-sharing apps could potentially cause trouble with our youth down the road, especially in the area of “sexting.”