Tag: Social Learning
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Real stab at School 2.0 – from the UK
I got this link from Michael who pointed out that there really isn’t that much noise out there for the school that is really practicing what many of us have been thinking in terms of School 2.0. Knowsley Council in Merseyside is opening the school/learning centers from 7 am until 10 pm on the weekdays…
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Docs/Scribd – The Facebook App
I didn’t get the welcome screen, but they say that it’s not meant for plagiarism, but to help share work that has already been done and that is only taking up space on drives. According to it’s homepage blurb: Facebook Docs is a library of schoolwork where anyone can contribute. Over 50,000 documents have been…
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Hole in the wall computing
I just saw this on Daily Planet – The Hole in the Wall – some amazing work is being done there. Looking at constructivism and all manner of social learning. There is also a PBS story about it online as well as a Business Week Online story there available as well. Kids will teach themselves…
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Ideas of surveillance
+++This post started out on my phone and has been trapped in the back end of my database for the weekend – I’ll come back to it when I have time+++ Friday, I took in this really interesting lecture by Meyrowitz, as well as a small panel afterward, who talked about how reality and it’s…
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Storytelling in Health Sciences
This was (and still is) a pet project of mine – to get storytelling in some manner into Science, and now it looks like there is a team that is actually doing the exact same thing. Dr. Jean Clandinin and Dr. Marie Cave have done some interesting work and I really tip my hat to…