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Category Archives: Collaborative Interaction
What if your school blew up?: The Little Becky approach to school reform
One of the most debilitating aspects of today’s educational environment is the fear of failure. No, I am not talking about students, I am talking about teachers and administrators. There is a constant fear of losing jobs, funding, the chance … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative Interaction, Educational Technology, Real Ed Tech Solutions, School Change, Web 2.0
Tagged del.icio.us, Digg, Diigo, education, Educational Technology, Hoover_Institute, innovation, Innovation3, ISU, learning, learning_architecture, McLeod, MIT, MSU, Negroponte, Ning, OLPC, OMAET, Pepperdine, Peters, Postrel, Pownce, reform, Twitter, UStream, web2.0, YouTube, Zhao
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My Message From The Future
I was having my morning tea, reading my feeds, and following my Twitter stream when @markwagner linked to a blog post he wrote in ’07 and asked what message we would send from the future to the principals of today … Continue reading
Freshman Year 2.0: Introduction
I have been re-reading the book Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins and it is as eye-opening the second time through as it was the first. I am struck by a concept that seems to keep coming back to forefront of … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative Interaction, Educational Leadership, Educational Technology, Higher Ed, School Change, Web 2.0
Tagged Abilene Christian University, ACU, Bustillos, Convergance Culture, education, Henry Jenkins, iPhone, Laporte, learning architectures, Morrisett, re-imagining education, reform, Technologies of Freedom, textbook, ThisWeekInTech, TWiT, Twitter
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Redefining School in the Age of Web 2.0: Update
Well, it’s been a few days since I began this process of explaining an idea of how a higher ed learning environment might look if it allowed itself to be influenced by the latest in technological hardware and facilitatory web … Continue reading
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Tagged education, Educational Technology, iPhone, iPod, Kindle, laptop, reform, technology, web2.0
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Redefining School in the age of Web 2.0
“The situated nature of learning, remembering, and understanding is a central fact. It may appear obvious that human minds develop in social situations, and that they use the tools and representational media that culture provides to support, extend, and reorganize … Continue reading
Open access and Web 2.0 tools
I recently read an interesting review (at EducationPR) of the book, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship by John Willinsky. The book discusses the idea of “open access” and the effect it will have … Continue reading
Teachers should be anonymous . . .
My friend Paul Baker quoted me in a post about an article at eSchool News discussing Ohio’s “warning” to teachers to avoid social networking via the Internet. The article doesn’t suggest limits, it seems to be a suggestion of complete … Continue reading
Social Annotation as learning tool
I came across a website almost two months ago, Diigo and decided to take a look today, maybe it is just me, but it sparked a number of exciting thoughts about potential educational applications . . . Simply put, Diigo … Continue reading
