The LB Chronicles by Lawrence Burke, Ed.D

Technology

  • The Design and Evaluation of Teacher Professional Development Programs: 6 Steps towards an Integrated Values Based Framework

    by Lawrence Burke Abstract: This article explores the traditional concept of teacher professional development through the filters of controlled, dependent and uncontrolled variables. Controlled variables within the teaching profession determine the outcome of all teacher professional development programs. Dependent variables… Continue reading

  • Cursive Writing as Self‐Identity in an Age of Digital Determinism

    by Lawrence Burke A 21st Century Context In the 1997 Sci‐Fic classic Gattaca key themes and ideas around reproductive and design technologies and their effects on the societies of the future are explored. The manipulation of our DNA is now… Continue reading

  • The 21st Century Digitized Panoptican

    by Lawrence Burke Humanyze is a data analytic company. Its mission is to monitor employee’s work day through the use of digital technology. Designed at MIT, The Humanyze Badge Platform allows employers to monitor their employees every second of every… Continue reading

  • Technology: How much is too much?

    by Lawrence Burke One of the more comic technology items introduced in 2013 was the iPotty. A simple device was attached to a toilet training potty for very young children. They could play with apps and Google away while waiting… Continue reading

  • Education, Power & Wealth

    by Lawrence Burke The subsummation of 21st century education into an advanced capitalist framework reaches its Zenith in Jose Ferreira’s recent polemic on The Hollywoodization of Education. Ferreira is CEO of Knewton, a self-described ‘adaptive learning company’. It’s actually a… Continue reading

  • Backyard Brains often Lack Intelligence

    by Lawrence Burke Backyards conjure up lots of images of recyclable materials and storage space or nicely cultivated lawns and gardens as a place to relax and enjoy the labors of the day. On the other hand Backyard Brains creates… Continue reading

  • The Decline of the Open Society

    by Lawrence Burke The ex-CIA employee, Edward Snowden who exposed the extent to which the security agencies of the United States of America and her allies intrude on the lives of their citizens raises the specter of the decline of… Continue reading

  • Education Technology and Mental & Physical Health Disorders

    by Lawrence Burke The relationship between internet usage and learning through a computer or mobile device is elementary. While there may be differentiation in the assignments or tasks undertaken (personal as opposed to specialized) the media interface is identical. For… Continue reading