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  • Everything from Kinder

    If you have time, take a look at Alan Kay‘s 20 talk at TED. He uses etoys in the video and shows how many of us, especially in higher ed (my 2 bits) make things more complex than we need to in order to get anything done when it comes to teaching students. Starting with…

  • Walls

    The Learning Technologies Center at the U of Manitoba has an interesting post on the use of wikis at their institution and it deals with a topic that I just navigated this morning. It does seem that instructors want control of material – as much to protect positions of privilege, but perhaps to avoid having…

  • Video assignments

    I’ve posted before as to how technology has made many production enterprises far more accessible now than they ever were before. Now here is a story out of the New York Times about how k-12 kids are taking to video production. While I don’t agree that every kid wants to go into film, I do…

  • NMC – New Horizon 2008

    You’ve gotta respect the people who walk the walk and talk the talk. One of these groups is the New Media Consortium (at least at first blush). They have taken their Horizon 2008 report and dumped it into Comment Press to make it a living and interactive document. They see collaboration technologies as one of…

  • Scaffolding

    Tomorrow’s Professor has a good post on scaffolding that I think many higher ed instructors should really pay attention to. K-12 teachers are more apt to make use of the technique, so it’s no wonder there is a large transition for many students. Without the scaffolding it is often difficult to get students to “get…