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"Appropriate Uses of Modern Technology" is a topic
that every teacher in a public school–whether beginner or veteran–needs to understand as the school year begins in his/her district. “Appropriate Uses of Modern Technology” is also the name of the latest American Federation of Teacher‘s “Classroom Tips” brochures that will be distributed freely to the union’s hundreds of thousands of teachers and school support…
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SOUR '日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro)' = teachers, observe!
Kathy V., a colleague and instructional hero of mine, shared this example of the power of collaborative construction via web 2.0 tools and I’m very grateful.. The creators are all under 21. Ask yourself as you watch it, educator: What corrollaries does it have for your instruction? A corrolary I take? That teachers need to…
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Lincoln v. Douglas 2.0 –why not?
Freedom-loving persons would not have wanted to do this one year ago, with George W. debating, but now, with eloquent president Obama, a golden opportunity for brand USA has been handed us by the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. From July 4th’s presstv: Addressing Iranian heads of medical universities on Saturday, President Ahmadinejad offered to…
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From the "Sloppy Floyd Building" comes confirmation
that the public’s sense of reality is located on-line. We know this because Georgia politicians, who trade on the public’s sense of reality, are vigorously defending their “brand” on-line. (James H. “Sloppy” Floyd was a state representative in Georgia from 1953-74. Apparently the state has named office buildings in his name). The Georgia Governor’s campaign…
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Who needs a press corps anymore?
The current US administration is riding the wave washing out the old fourth estate, leaving an ominous vacuum. In place of the dying newspapers, Obama’s websites and social media fill in the gap with status updates on proposed reforms, domestic and foreign affairs, and news of the family dog. Perhaps a benign-seeming president like BO…
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#Iranelection and Chicago, 1968: the revolution is being televised (this time)
What an amazing spectacle, because of the web the largest political show ever: actual revolutionary battles that the people(the crowd, the mob, the mass of us, this time mediated by the web) are, so far, winning. Clay Shirkey (the author of Here Comes Everybody) meets the barricades. “Here we come!” the mob of Iranians seem…
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School 2.0, OK–but now Christianity 2.0?
Back in 1803 the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, wanted to do something other than merely receive divine intelligence (in the form of the canonical bible, for his time the King James version of the scriptures). He wished to interrogate and comment on the “word of God” to mankind, a rather modern…
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A quintessence of American urban culture: Chicago Blues Fest 2009
There’s so much in the Chicago blues that I love! Let me count some of the ways: 1) the way blues celebrate the down side of life, which balances things aright; 2) the way blues are so dirt-simple to play, sing, and create; 3) the way blues give sacrifice a song; 4) the way blues…
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Sure. We've saddled them with debts, environmental degradation, and other seemingly insoluble problems,
…but we’ve also given our children–the next generation of humans–some powerful means to learn, what has been called education 2.0. Good thing, since it may be the only way human civilization can get smart enough to solve the gi-normous problems we old folks are bequeathing them! I’m talking again (having posted about ithere and here)…
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