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You mean we can trust our students?
Trust them not to be immediately do evil and cause administrative problems? Well, yes, and according to this New York Times report, , their socializing on-line is EXACTLY the preparation they will need in order to sharpen up their needed 21st c. skills. …[our young people’s] participation [in online communities–myspace, etc.–] is giving them the…
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Collaboration of separate noises = ?
= music! What a nice reminder of the beautiful results of human interaction for a common goal!
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Just back from Google Teacher Academy
in their Manhattan office space, and before I sleep, let me record some impressions. There is palpable excitement around a promising suite of apps from Google. Where’s the evil? The folks who ran it and the educators attending were spirited and capable. Where’s the evil? Some really great folks. And the huge office? Bright and…
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first impressions of the Google-sphere
I was fortunate last night to attend a book release party/discussion at Google’s Chicago office. It was for the Harvard-based Beckman Center for Internet & Society’s Digital Natives study. Who are these comfortably online souls? The book does a good job shining light on them. Besides getting to consort with all sorts of very smart…
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"The more you collabapp, the less you e-mail."
I like this NYTimes article on becoming more productive with wikis, etc.: We need a new term to describe “hosted collaboration application with a wiki” because that’s a lot to type each time. How about collabappiki? Better yet, how about collabapp? If your job requires you to interact with co-workers and track what happens, you’ll…
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Wikis are left brained, Blogs are right… right?
Here’s a quick visual test of your brained-ness.Which way do you see her move? And which are you working more: wikis or blogs?
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We might call them "telescopic" wikis
or something like that: wikis that function as filters and perceptual “lenses” for collaborative knowledge construction between globally-partnered classrooms. Does a classroom of learners on one side of the planet require a “close up” on a hard-to-see subject on the other side? This edu-wiki provides a microscopic view. Or do students, in order to understand…
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a 21st century transaction
Teacher-Do this wiki. Student– Do I have to? Who would wiki? I mean, if they didn’t have to? The answer I and other “wiki-vangelist” teacherswant to give is that that people will wiki because the wiki is the best tool for the job. As naturally and frequently as they now pick up a pen or…
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Good tech is invisible
I love how Carla Beard puts it in the NCTE Council Chronicle of September 2008: …as we use technology more, we notice it less. For example, we think less, “My students are blogging” and more, “My students write regularly for an authentic audience.” At that point, the technology has become fully integrated. She quotes David…
The Wikiness 