Category: Resources
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Technology or Unions – which is the problem?
I saw this story pop up on WSJ in my reader this morning and then I noticed it in Growing Up Digital as well. Liberating Learning (Moe, T.M. and Chubb, J.E.) claims that technology might be the way to get around many of the “blocks” that have been put up with regards to change in…
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Quit working, start daydreaming!
On the heels of the WILB work that I couldn’t find a reference for, I find another interesting study that blows a hole in the “time on task” mantra. Kalina Christoff and a team of collaborators at UBC recently published a paper – Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to…
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C-61 in Canada – A YouTube Documentary
C-61 died with the last election, but it might raise it’s ugly head again as the government has basically stayed the same. This is a great look at the issue in 11min 20secs. Thanks to Harold Jarche for the heads up (via twitter). Digging around my RSS reader (yeah I still do that old RSS…
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Making use of the intimacy of cells – for intimate purposes
This is an interesting way to look at using txting to teach. The BART (Be A Responsible Teen) project is trying to use txting because: “Right now, with the face-to-face method we have been using, kids come in for one and a half to two hour long sessions,” Cornelius [Judith Cornelius, Assistant Professor of Nursing…
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Photo and Audio merge in the cloud
Aviary, a cool online image editor/creator has picked up DigiMix. These, together with Jaycut or Jumpcut (now owned by Yahoo!), it seems that there is no longer a need for schools to invest in these basic editors.