Education and technology

I came across this video of Sir Ken Robinson talking at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference in 2006 about our current education system and the effects he thinks it has on kids' creativity. Even though he is talking about lower education, I think his views are relevant to college- or graduate-level science teaching because it is at this point that students are challenged (often for the first time) to think independently and creatively about scientific ideas.

How do we plan to evaluate students in our classrooms while also fostering creativity? If anyone has good ideas about how they plan to do this or good stories about how their professors did this in the past, please share!

I am really interested in how technology can be utilized in the classroom, especially in the context of a college-level biology class. And I'm talking something other than powerpoint presentations, people. Here's an example of a class blog , made by Darren Kuropatwa, a high school math teacher in Manitoba. After each class, he has one student summarize what they learned that day and post it on the blog. He has gotten a lot of good feedback from students who benefited from reading other students' explanations of math concepts. I wonder how a similar blog could work in a college-level biology class? How would you change his model?

Finally, here's the Online Education Database's collection of their top 100 education blogs .