Category: Teaching
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Twittering out
There has been much digital ink spilled on Twitter, and this is not likely to be seen above the noise of everything else that is out there, but I have noticed something interesting in the critiques of both Twitter (CPU, and C|Net) and the Semantic Web (OLDaily) combined with some thoughts as to the differences…
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IT vs IT revisited, ID emerges
Some time ago, when I started my position here in the Faculty of Science, I wrote about the difference between Information Technology and Instructional Technology. This topic came up again this week in conversations on campus with various colleagues and I mentioned that I’ve started to use the term ID (Instructional Design) within the Faculty…
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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…
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Write a quick Blurb
As much as people would like to think that going digital is the be all and end all wave of the future, I still think that for at least another decade or so that there is a real need to create paper. But just as the web has allowed people to publish digitally what they…
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Will Wright, Montessori and toys
GU has a bit part on Wright’s comments from SxSW: I went to Montessori school till 5th grade, and Maria Montessori, her idea was if you build toys and let kids play with them, they explore and discover the principles of the world around them by themselves. The games I make I think of in…