Archive for March, 2008
A Vision of K-12 Students Today
“We expect to be able to create, consume, remix and share information with each other.”
“Teach me to think, to create, to analyse, to evaluate, to apply. Teach me to think”.
Although it drawing both from Michael Wesch’s A Vision of Students Today (here) and the now legendary Karl Fisch’s Shift Happens (here) this video […]
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Peer Reviewing Blog Entries - The Good and The Bad
Via Blog vs. Peer Review Update: Interactivity Brings Some Surprises by Jeffrey R. Young.
A great little piece on the use of blogs to journalise research progress. Noah Wardrip-Fruin, an assistant professor at the University of California, has been posting a draft section from his forthcoming book, about analyzing video games, every one on a […]
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If I were president
Via Vicki Davis’s blog a nice little video of primary school children engaging in an exercise in which they have the opportunity to be creative and, as Vicki observes, “envision themselves as making a difference”.
Download Video: Posted by cshively at TeacherTube.com.
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Way-new collaboration
Another wonderful TED talk. This time we have Howard Rheingold talking about about how the future world will be dominated by collaboration, participatory media and collective action. He cites Wikipedia as “an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.”
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A powerful idea about teaching ideas
Well I have a bad case of blogging guilt at the moment. Basically I’ve been busy working through ePortfolio resources as part of an upcoming StudyNet project and while I’m not working on that I’ve been co writing a paper on the future of MLEs, (plus I’ve been to Crufts).I’ve got a few things to […]
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