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a mashed up medium but a cogent message…
…and so a person doesn’t notice the medium. Aren’t those the best sort of communications media, the ones you don’t even notice? Technology…it's all around us…http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=technologyits-all-around-us-1200694491932122-3&stripped_title=technologyits-all-around-us View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web2.0 digital) I think this show might work well with a general education audience–especially one using Vista (though Mac gets its…
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Ideas come first, then the media and the tools
Digital storytelling–like any kind of storytelling–requires a narrative first, an idea. As this engaging video points out, the media and tools are relatively unimportant. D’uh. You’ve got to have the something to communicate before you can think about its packaging. It’s the same thing with learning: you need a question first. Everything–the student’s growing skill…
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Were it not for web 2.0 technologies, would Barack have won?
This post by the respected author of We are smarter than me, says “no way.”More evidence for the affirmative side in the debate over resolved: that educators should begin harnessing the communicative and learning power of these tools for/with our students.
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"…there is no surer way to bring an end to schooling…
…than for it to have no end” –Neil Postman What Postman is saying, i think, is that without an agreed-on end (transcendent purpose) for education, education ends. That if you remove a satisfying conclusion to the narrative of people’s endeavors, they will peter out and eventually cease achieving, end of story. I think i would…
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another little piece of my philosophy
on teaching, or “pedagogy.” You can tag this “on knowledge construction” (accrual), which I maintain begins and then begins again (persists) in the simple human act of inquiry. My back up here comes from Paulo Freire: Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry humans pursue in the world,…
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Catch a falling knife… if you dare
The economy is tumbling, with no end in sight, and I’ve been looking for answers that the non-economist like me can understand. Why has this system failed us? One good answer comes in Michael Lewis’ “The End,” published in the December Conde-Nast Portfolio. Twenty years ago, things could have changed for the better, he writes.…
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some education quotations
The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.” – William Gibson courtesy of Doug Johnson: It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum. Woodrow Wilson The only completely consistent people are the dead. Aldous Huxley If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child.…
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"Ex abusu non arguitur in usam"
Or, the abuse of a thing is no argument against that thing’s use is a hard proverb to keep in mind, especially amidst what one considers extreme circumstances. When a person perceives him/herself as threatened, putting a situation in proper perspective can be tough. When a coordinated team of teenaged terrorist attacks Mumbai, targeting American…
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a poetic defence of music in the basic curriculum
Nancy Flanagan reminds us why music has been there since the time of Plato’s Republic: it makes us think better. Once again, researchers—this time at Harvard—have presented us with scientifically-based evidence that studying music makes you smarter. Or to be more precise, studying music improves verbal ability and visual patterning completion.
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