Tag: Cool Papers/Articles/Resources
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Was Dewey already on School 2.0?
Helping my wife tonight on her paper, she came across this quote from Dewey (1916): From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in school comes from his inability to utilize the experience he gets outside… while on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning in…
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Kids on GTA
I got this from EdTechLife, but here is the direct link. To me, it seems that the kids feel that they are desensitized to the events in the game and that in some manner they are immune to it’s influence. Granted, it’s difficult to see what the impact might be, but to my mind, the…
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It Spams Shots Shoots & Leaves
Well this is a multi-part quick post – the first part is just noticing the difference between the spams that are caught between the first part. It seems that there are no spams that SK has caught that Akismet hasn’t – so why have both? Just in case (I dropped the extra later after a…
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JSB – Use Web 2.0 to fix education
C|Net has a nice little writeup talking about John Seely Brown’s comments at a recent MIT event. One of the things that he suggests is that we look to the sharing and apprenticeship model rather than the hording/mastery model that we have now to make education more authentic. He also notes that the rise of…
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When your gadgets blog
This was put out a few weeks ago, but I’ve just now got around to it. The Escapist writes about how there is a system that allows Xbox 360s to have a “voice”. In the article, the author, Mur Lafferty mentions that this is possibly a slippery slope to give machines voices. I don’t know…