Tag: Risk
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Sim school (Melanie Zibit, David Gibson, Bill Halverson)
I decided to try to make notes for this conference on my phone and then use Bluetooth to send them over to the laptop for final prep before I post them online. It seems that even though it’s a bit slower, I’m taking down the important points, as opposed to everything when I’m typing. It’s…
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Safety nets
I had a one on one help session with one of the sessionals today and over the course of the discussion there were a few interesting points – one that she wants to be on a Mac, but thought they were too expensive until I told her about the mini, two that she can see…
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Dec05/Jan06 Innovate Online
The new edition of Innovate is online. This time around there are three interesting articles, the first (Carolyn Rude-Parkins, Karen Hughes Miller, Karen Ferguson and Robert Bauer) looks at the US Army’s implementation of games and simulations in their AC3-DL course for Captains. This is similar to the game Full Spectrum Warrior, where any “Joe…
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Thinking outside the box
This weekend, my wife and I watched Born into Brothels – a powerful documentary showing a literal snapshot into the lives of children born to the women of Calcutta’s Red Light District. Through the movie, the filmmaker, Zana Briski commented that “she was not a teacher”. True, in the normal sense she was not –…
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Catching up to Kindergarten
Technology Review posted an article today that talks about how young student are getting online. These kids are as young as three years old! If this is not a wake up call to many of those teacher training institutions who are still talking a slow road to technology integration into their curriculum, this is a…