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  • Marshall McLuhan’s Tribes and Our Echo Chambers

    A quote that Brain Pickings dug out suggests that Marshall McLuhan didindeed predict Social Media: These new media have made our world into a single unit. The world is now like a continually sounding tribal drum, where everybody gets the message all the time. A princess gets married in England and — boom boom boom!…

  • Ken Robinson – Draining the font of creativity

    THE ELEMENT: HOW FINDING YOUR PASSION CHANGES EVERYTHING SIR KEN ROBINSON (VIDEO) SEPTEMBER 30, 2009 from terrytalks on Vimeo. Another interesting talk by Sir Ken including something on the declining value of a degree and the aesthetics of math and how we should look to a more organic model of human development and away from…

  • LG and txt education

    It is nice to see when a company tries to get out ahead of an issue that it knows could be problematic with it’s products. The brewers and distillers do this with drinking and driving, the pharmaceutical companies do this with drug interactions and now cell phone makers are starting to do it with txting.…

  • Mini Games

    I spotted this on OLDaily – and looking at the conclusion… Mini-games are fast becoming an effective and relevant method to deliver game-based instruction. They should no longer be considered as just simple quiz-style games embedded in a conventional course to break up the monotony of the information. While they certainly can be included in…

  • The forest for the trees

    I wonder what Sir Ken (Robinson) would say about this? It seems to me that this sort of thing happens far more often than we might think. So many kids think different, or on scales that are not obvious to adults that there are likely at least one of these in every grade level in…