Category: Teaching
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It’s always been about communication
One of the things that we know for sure is that technology is something that moderates power. Largely the technologies that do the most moderation are those that deal with communication. So when we think about those who don’t have access to technology, we usually look at those that don’t have the money. But what…
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Jobs gets rotten apples
It seems that there are more people annoyed at Jobs’ comments about teacher. California teachers are now demanding an apology. From the MacNN article: “Let me do the same. How well could a business — say, a computer company — operate if you paid its professional employees so poorly and put them in work environments…
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Drop the “e”
This is somewhat relevant after the webinar this afternoon, about how we should really be looking beyond the technology (nee chrome) to see how the means actually delivered the “meat” that is learning. I’ve mentioned before that one of my peeves is the whole e/i/(d)igital prefix on things, but then it struck me that there…
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Outsource to help integrate
Many people are in the situation that they have to or want to build something that they can plan, but not build on their own. In the eLearning realm, that might be quite a bit of stuff. A colleague (now in the UAE) sent out on my alumni list Getafreelancer.com. While this might not be…
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Jobs, Dell ruffle feathers
I saw this come up today, Jobs and Dell shared a stage in Texas and told their audience that unions and poor principles are the roadblock (Wired) to better schools in terms of technolgy advances. I haven’t seen the full article yet (I’m writing this while I’m waiting for some pictues to dump), but one…