Monthly Archives: February 2009

Expanding the boundaries #expbound

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Shannon Smith

I’m sitting in the room at Expanding Our Boundaries (#expbound)  in Toronto.  The 2 day event, co-hosting by OTF and ECOO, is facilitated by Will Richardson.  Gearing up for the event, I connected with some of the other attendees through various … Continue reading →

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Education'n'Technology'n'Change – Oh My!

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Shannon Smith

In the March 2009 issue of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Journal Educational Leadership, Douglas Reeves writes about 3 challenges of Web 2.0.  Reeves is the author of several books on assessment and educational leadership, and could be considered an authority … Continue reading →

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I've Been Tagged

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Shannon Smith

Well, actually, I was tagged twice in the fb “25 Random Things” meme.  The second tag was from a colleague with whom I will travel to Toronto this week to attend a reading conference.  Since we are sharing accommodation I … Continue reading →

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Attention in the Connected World

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Shannon Smith

In a Wired.com interview, Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted:  The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age suggests that, This degree of interruption (in the connected workspace) is correlated with stress and frustration and lowered creativity. That makes sense. When … Continue reading →

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facebook is as facebook does

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Shannon Smith

In his online article on Newsweek.com, Steve Tuttle journals his decision to quit facebook, after finding that he had wasted countless hours on the social network site: When I think about all the hours I wasted this past year on … Continue reading →

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What is the Purpose of Learning? (reframing the question)

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Shannon Smith

What is the Purpose of Education? This conversation sprang out of the Friday night panel at Educon 2.1 (no, I wasn’t there in person…) and continues to reverberate around the web.  This morning Karl Fisch blogged “What is the Purpose of … Continue reading →

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