Workflow- Social Media School Teacher (8)
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Dharmesh wakes up a little late. After a quick shower, he skips checking email, but goes right to his RSS reader to see updates of where the students worked within the social network. Luckily, Ning (and lots of services) send new activities out via RSS, so they’re easy to track. It looks like Margarite has added more YouTube videos to the video section, and Franklin has written a blog post about the town’s historic water ...
A wiki of educational software (1)
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After my post about moving to a new school and having a Mac for the first time in 10+ years, I received more suggestions of software that I needed then I ever thought I would. I’m still going through the list and of course installing and uninstalling software as I try things out and find what I really need. I was asked if I would create a wiki to keep track of all the cool ...
Will Russian Scientists Clone Baby Siberian Mammoth? (1)
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Disrupting Class. How disruptive innovation will change the way the world learns. Clayton Christensen, Michael Horn & Curtis Johnson. (1)
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Image via Wikipedia Disrupting Class. How disruptive innovation will change the way the world learns. Clayton Christensen, Michael Horn & Curtis Johnson. 2008 ISBN 9780071592062. Rocket Builders most influential author, Christensen, with his co authors has taken his theory of disruptive innovation and focused on the education sector. The authors do not lay blame but with Christensen’s laser sharp analysis, peel back all the root causes of public perception and changing goal posts for education ...
What Do You Need to Save For Your Child’s College Education? (2)
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One question I often get from new and expectant parents is how much they should be saving each month for their child’s college education. Obviously, if you’re looking at paying for college eighteen years down the road, there are going to be a lot of unknowns: how will college funding change by then? How much will tuition go up? How will parent contribution expectations change? Even with those kinds of variables, you can still come ...
China Universities: Pouring Shit Into Students’ Minds (2)
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Earlier this week, some Chinese noticed a strange piece of news on Tsinghua University’s website: “Tsinghua President Gu Binglin — China university education is pouring shit into students’ minds.” Clicking that link led to the following news article and interview: [English Translation] “Yesterday afternoon, Tsinghua University principal Mr. Gu Binglin expressed his worries about current university education conditions during an interview with a student reporter. He indicated straightforwardly that the university education system is in ...
61 Reforms to C-61, Day 49: Education Harms - Lessons May Require DRM (1)
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The conditions attached to the lesson provisions do not end with destroying lessons that use the exemption at the conclusion of the course. There are two provisions that would appear to encourage (or possibly even require) the use of digital rights management to control the further distribution of these lessons. Section 30(5)(b) requires teachers to: take measures that can reasonably be expected to limit the communication by telecommunication of the lesson to the persons referred ...
The Ultimate Legal Technologist (from ILTA) | Knowledge Management (1)
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ILTA - August 26, 2008 1:30 pm These are my notes from the program. [Since I am taking paper-free notes and because there is free Wi-Fi here, I thought that I’d add the notes to the blog. Disclaimer: my notes are rough, so forgive the typos.] From ILTA: Title: The Ultimate Legal Technologist Description: We discuss the value of legal or IT expertise as a foundation for legal technologists, specifically in the field of practice ...
More ILTA Coverage | Knowledge Management (1)
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Today is the last day of ILTA. I’ll be covering a couple of sessions later. There are so many great programs here that it’s impossible to attend all of the ones that you’d like. That’s why I am very happy to see that several people are sharing their notes and thoughts about the sessions. Many people have expressed appreciation for this, so I want to make sure that everyone knows of some of the other ...
Learn 35+ Languages for Free in iTunes (3)
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I was just browsing iTunes for poignant Morrissey covers when I discovered nearly a thousand free language courses on iTunes. 926 courses to be exact. Holy Moleskine, Batman! The extensive library of courses span over 35 languages, from Arabic to Yiddish. Each course comes as a convenient podcast which you can subscribe and put on your iPod or iPhone. To get the entire list of language learning podcasts, hit the browse button on the lower-right ...
The Time Will Be Now (1)
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[So this is a little something I wrote the other day when I was in "creative" mode. Personally, I think it might be a good start for a message to accompany photos or video like this, but in (brief) video form.What do you think: Too cheezy or just cheezy enough to be good? You can be honest, I can take it. Just between you and me, one thing I really don't like about this post ...
The Collaboration Continuum (2)
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After some very helpful comments on my last post, I have revised my collaboration continuum to reflect the need for some pre- and post-assessments, as well as consistent professional development and an emphasis on learning and assessment: I still couldn’t think of different terms to define the continuum, although I don’t like the fact that “dependence” could have a negative connotation even though “full collaboration” is a good thing - we want to have more ...
What makes Beth Kanter a successful social networker — TechWag (2)
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Beth Kanter is one of the few people who has taken the idea of mission, combined it with blog and other new media tools, and then started teaching non-profits on how to take these tools and use them to reach their goals . Those goals can be as simple as raising awareness, to using new media, blogs, wiki’s, and video to help raise funds for a cause. With the focus on helping non-profits, Beth has ...
VizThink Europe Discount Code! (1)
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I know many of my readers would really enjoy the conference VizThink Europe, and the conference is coming up quickly. The Europe version is in Berlin, Germany this year on October 12-14 at Crown Plaza Berlin City Centre. We'll have lots of opportunities for hands on experiences, learning from industry gurus, and networking with your visual thinking peers. We'll be bringing a few of your favorite facilitators from San Francisco with all new content, plus ...
Eight Great Back-to-School iPhone Apps [Back To School] (34)
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If you're headed back to school this semester with an iPhone or iPod touch in your pocket, you're in luck: The iTunes App Store is filled with applications to make your life easier as a student and as the hip young college type you are. Whether you're hitting the books or the bars, keep reading for a closer look at eight of the best back-to-school iPhone and iPod touch applications. (Not headed back to school? ...
Young 'dreaming of living abroad' (1)
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I had a really wonderful morning today that very quickly turned (1)
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I had a really wonderful morning today that very quickly turned bittersweet on me. Today was one of my days to do sex ed outreach to the street kids at the temporary teen shelter in the International District. The group was all girls this morning, which pretty much never happens. I don’t mind teaching when boys are part of the group, but the mixed-gender group with this particular population really makes a big difference. I ...
Ohio college students get discounts on electronic books (1)
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Ethnographic research informed Intel’s Classmate PC (1)
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The design of Intel’s new Classmate PC with its full touchscreen support, is based on observations and research collected about the way that the computers are used in real-world classroom settings., reports ars technica. In a video published by Intel on its YouTube channel, one of the company’s ethnographers describes some of the background research behind the new design of the device, which is aimed primarily for education in emerging markets. Intel looked closely at ...
Assessing Network Building (4)
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So lately I’ve been talking and thinking more and more about this idea of a “performance standard” that reads something like “Students create, grow and navigate online personal learning networks in safe, effective and ethical ways” and what that would mean in a NETS type framework. For instance, students: locate, identify and evaluate potential mentors or teachers online communicate with co-learners clearly and effectively in a variety of modes share work online using a variety ...
