About Mr. Mahoney
Princess Diana and Rambo!
What could Princess Diana and Sylvester Stalllone have in common? They were both involoved in traffic collisions.
Prior to enteing the field of teaching, Mr. Mahoney had a successful career as an expert witness in the courts on the causes of traffic collisions. He worked as a media consultant for NBC's Today Show on the Princess Diana Crash. He has also worked for Sylvester Stallone on a traffic collision between him and a member of the paparazzi
He uses the knowledge he garnered in the private sector to stress the importance of developing job skills in the field of technology, math, and writing.
Technology Qualifications
Master of Science: Education - Information Technology
Masters's Thesis: “Alternative Cognitive Devices and the Lack of Development of Higher Order Thinking Skills as Measured by the Reduction in Common Measures of Intelligence, Knowledge, and Learning”
Recent Publications:
Mahoney, Robert E. (2010). Do Students Need to Memorize Facts in the Digital Age? Point/CounterPoint, Learning and Leading with Technology, February 2010, pp. 8-9
Recent Presentations:
- Western Oregon University, Brown Bag Lunch Series, 2009. Developmentally Appropriate Technology Acquisition
- Western Oregon University, MS in Ed: Information Technology Summer Institute 2009. Is Technology Interfering with our Ability to Learn
- Adjunct Instructor: Western Oregon University 2008
- Award for Academic Excellence WOU School Of Education, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 2004