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Tag: K-12

  • Mickey gets another friend

    Well, yesterday was a holiday, so I missed this, but it seems that Disney has noticed that for all it’s branding, it’s own social networking sites are really not flying that high. The solution – like many others have done in the past – is to buy something that is working (GN). This thing is…

  • Teachers porn and popups

    One of the things that happened to me once when I was teaching an introductory computing class over in Education was a student, when searching for images for her website entered a “classically confused search term” – and this before safe search – and she hit a site that fired off a flurry of popups…

  • Teams

    One of the things that happens quite a bit in the K-12 world, but not really in the higher ed world of education is teamwork. This is odd as students grow up learning how to work in teams and then when they hit the work world, they will again be required (for the most part)…

  • Cyberbullying vs Predators

    I found this via OLDaily, and thought that it was something that is worth mentioning. There are hundreds of cases of predation vs millions of cyber-bullying. This is something that is present not only in K-12, but in higher ed as well. So why are we looking away? Are we really that calloused to bullying…

  • More Jobsian fallout – Post 1000!

    Dale Hill has written his two bits on the comments made a few weeks ago by Jobs and Dell. Here is a clip that I think hits the core argument: Dell also blamed problems in public schools on the lack of a competitive job market for principals. Neither one of them brought up the fact…