About Me

 

Brief Bio: 

I’m Mark van ‘t Hooft and I work for the Research Center for Educational Technology at Kent State University. I provide technical support for the AT&T classroom (our research lab), but most of all I research the impact of technology on teaching and learning. I have been active in the area of mobile learning since 2001, when our center was a national research hub for the Palm Education Pioneer Project. In 2005 I was a founding member (and current chair) of the Special Interest Group for Handheld Computing (SIGHC) of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).

More recently, I have become very interested in the idea of ubiquitous computing for teaching and learning. As a former social studies and language arts teacher, I’m especially interested in ubiquitous computing in these two areas. For more information about my work (publications and presentations), please see this page.

As you can tell from my educational experiences, I’ve been quite a few places. I hold a B.A. in American Studies from the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands (yes, I am Dutch ), and an M.A. in History from Southwest Texas State. I received my doctoral degree from Kent State University in 2005, with a dual major in Curriculum and Instruction, and Evaluation and Measurement.

In my ’spare time’ I enjoy anything that involves working with my hands (woodworking, gardening, camping, scale modeling, model trains, my LEGO collection), computer games, soccer (I’m a lifelong PSV Eindhoven fan, and of course the Dutch National Team!), and working with the local boy scout troop.

Why the Title?

Of course I had to come up with something clever . The title means the thoughts in this blog are ubiquitous because:

• they deal with ubiquitous computing for teaching and learning;
• they span a wide range of ideas within the realm of ubiquitous computing;
• I tend to come up with them whenever and whereever;
• they will hopefully be read by many people.

So there you have it…

Disclaimer:

Opinions and reflections published here as posts are entirely those of the author. Discussion posts, signed by others, belong to the signed authors. The content here does not reflect the opinions or thoughts of anyone else, including my employers.

Last updated 03/31/08