technology – Mechanical Sympathy

Which Digital Overlord Do you Bow To?

February 10, 2019 By Timothy King

I'm pretty handy when it comes to technology, but the past week has really underlined for me just how proprietary digital technology has become. In the past seven days I've had to root my phone and I'm still struggling to free the magazines I have purchased from the clutches of Apple.…

what’s in your digital toolbox?

December 29, 2018December 29, 2018 By Timothy King

Originally published on Dusty World, March, 2014. This week we're off to the On The Rise elearning Ontario conference in Mississauga. I'm presenting Tuesday on how to avoid the pitfalls of a single online learning environment by building a diverse online digital learning ecosystem. I'm aiming…

Machines That Challenge

December 9, 2018 By Timothy King

Tim's Motorcycle Diaries I've been taking a break from writing on work over the holiday and have instead been writing about my new love: motorbikes. In the last post I wrote about mechanical empathy and how a machine that challenges you can also encourage growth; this resonates with technology and…

Living in an Information Rich World

December 5, 2018 By Timothy King

The other day I had a senior high school student who has been conditioned to be helpless say, "How am I supposed to know what aperture is? You're supposed to teach us!" Aside from the fact that this student has evidently won photo competitions and got an 81% in grade…

#edtech I.T. Management

November 22, 2018 By Timothy King

Welcome to 2010, kindof...We're back in school again and it's been a bit of a #edtech mess. Over the summer our board upgraded to Windows 7 (so now we're only one iteration behind the most current operating system). In the process the entire network was rejigged to fit this new…

Coding Is A Hands-on Skill

November 13, 2018November 14, 2018 By Timothy King

Originally published on Dusty World in July, 2013 - WIRED caught up to me in 2017 with The Next Big Blue Collar Job Is Coding. I'm frustrated at how computer science seems to own coding. In Ontario it is now an orphaned subject unto itself. There is no way someone without…

Skills Canada Nationals

June 5, 2016January 14, 2017 By Timothy King

I've never been on a provincial team before, it's quite the experience. In addition to the unnatural process of leaving school, getting on an aeroplane and flying away from the classroom in early June, it also puts you together with all the other gold medalists, some of whom you lost…

Driving Your Own Learning

May 1, 2016January 14, 2017 By Timothy King

This quote was used in a presentation I gave in 2013. The revolution is sneaking up on us, changing our habits and how we think and learn without us even realizing it. Recently a number of people have told me something along these lines: "I don't have to remember anything…

Digital Amplification of the Mega Self

August 30, 2015January 13, 2017 By Timothy King

I've finished Crawford's The World Beyond Your Head, and I've been ruminating on it for a couple of weeks. Crawford makes a number of educational criticisms in this philosophical treatise that attempts to free us from Enlightenment thinking gone mad. This post is on how digital economics amplify and feed off…

Notifications Off

January 26, 2015January 13, 2017 By Timothy King

While away in the States recently I turned off notifications in the various apps on my phone to save on data, and then turned off notifications entirely when I got home, I found I was enjoying the silence. In that silence I started thinking about operant conditioning and just how…

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