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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Ethics, Respect & The Connected Classroom
As we move (willingly or otherwise) towards learning environments that embrace the use of digital devices such as handhelds, ipods and mobiles, a certain initial uneasiness is not out of order. Thinking carefully about the merit of anything that we, as educators, … Continue reading
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Tagged ethics, Howard_Gardner, mobiles_in_education, respect, Vygotsky
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An iPhone for Every Learner?
On the Horizon: The Personal Web The just published Horizon Report 2009 suggests that The Personal Web is on the horizon for adoption within 2 – 3 years. Fifteen years after the first commercial web pages began to appear, the amount of content available on … Continue reading
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Tagged mobile_devices, social_networking, The_Horizon_Report, the_personal_web
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The Experience of Crowds
I came across this insightful little video created by Will Richardson to illustrate how social networking and web 2.0 tools have changed the way that current events stories break , become aggregated and refined using tools such as, in this … Continue reading
Student Technology Leaders
As the Computer Contact Teacher (read jack of all things wired and wireless) at my rather large K-8 school, I have started to recruit Intermediate ( Grade 7 and 8 ) students to perform some of the basic troubleshooting that … Continue reading
2 Resolutions and 3 Moments
2 Resolutions: Only 1 Counts Despite my skepticism, I made 2 resolutions for 2009. Maintaining this blog and learning more about digital literacies is one. The other has to do with my treadmill. Enough said. 3 moments … Continue reading
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Tagged digital immigrant, digital literacy, google docs, skype, social networking
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