Tag: K-12
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JSB – Use Web 2.0 to fix education
C|Net has a nice little writeup talking about John Seely Brown’s comments at a recent MIT event. One of the things that he suggests is that we look to the sharing and apprenticeship model rather than the hording/mastery model that we have now to make education more authentic. He also notes that the rise of…
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Download RR Tycoon for free
Sid Meier has got to be one of the greatest game designers ever. His games are ones that could very easily be used as a resource in the classroom (a classic COTS type game). If you want to get the railroad game that started it all, click to download. Just a note, the site is…
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FLOSSing in School – Innovate Online
Gary Hepburn and Jan Buley‘s Innovate article (Getting Open Source Software into Schools:Strategies and Challenges) on open source is a pretty good read as it matched off and supports much of what I believe to be the issues involved with bringing any new systems into schools. My position goes a little something like this… One…
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Online Predators
The presentation that I put out a few days ago went over very well, but as with any first run presentation, there was more information than was needed and so as a result, I’ve tweaked (Predators) it just enough to produce this pared down version that is focused on predators (bullies and perverts). Hopefully it…
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Cheap Video Production
I’ve mentioned this before, but there are more and more companies out there offering what amount to disposable video cameras. The most recent of these, Pure Digital (noted in my previous post as well), offers a camera that will record to flash memory. And at around $200 it could be a very cheap way for…