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Old Man Dragonfly: Henry Louis Gates; a long over-due post
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006. Henry Louis Gates; a long over-due post. Certainly not current news, but still bouncing around in my mind, is the Academic Lecture on September 14 th. Which Henry Louis Gates gave. I have to admit, the lecture was not what I expected. In preparation for hearing him speak, my classmates and I read the 2 nd. And 3rd chapters ("Barriers to Equity" by Kathleen Fulton and Robert Sibley, and "Factors of the Divide by Karin M. Wiburg. Toward Digital Equity ed. Gwen Solomon and others.
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Old Man Dragonfly: Second Life
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Sunday, November 19, 2006. A recent CNN article by Grace Wong. Explored the excitement of educators stirred up by Second Life classrooms. Wong describes the birth and rapid fire of online classrooms:. Gives an even more vivid description of what this first Second Life Harvard classroom is like:. While a somewhat realistic representation of the real world in vertual space strikes many as exciting, Wong points out that,. Some are skeptical about how much of an impact "Second Life" will have on the educatio...
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Old Man Dragonfly: Retrospection
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Sunday, November 19, 2006. In one last tribute to David Warlick, a compliment he received. From a conference attendee really struck a chord with me:. He kept saying how right my address was, that it wasn’t about the stuff, it wasn’t about the technology, that it was about the information, that the kids figure out the technology for themselves. They need us to teach them how to work the information. November 17, 2006 at 10:58 am. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Creative.Thoughts.Uncensored.: November 2006
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." -Alfred Whitney Griswold. Tuesday, November 28, 2006. YA Booklists, Awards, Teen Read Week, and More! OK This article is really cool because it incorporates something I had no idea existed: Teen Read Week. Teen Read Week is a week completely dedicated to teens and young adult books. View my complete profile. YouTu...
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Old Man Dragonfly: Semantic Web
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Sunday, November 19, 2006. Has anyone else started to notice words underlined in blue popping up all over the place? Call it tagging, call it tangent provoking, call it Semantic Webbing, whatever you call it, it brings exciting prospects. As Andy Carvin writes,. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the physicist who developed the web 17 years ago as a way of sharing knowledge with his colleagues. The Semantic Web and the Online Educational Experience. November 3, 2006. By Andy Carvin, 11:12AM. View my complete profile.
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Creative.Thoughts.Uncensored.: September 2006
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." -Alfred Whitney Griswold. Sunday, September 24, 2006. Pop Fiction No Match For Classic Literature. Kathleen Modenbach, EducationWorld.com "Voice of Experience" contributor. For the complete article click the link below:. Http:/ www.nea.org/classmanagement/ifc031209.html. By the time this article ends, Modenbach ha...
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Creative.Thoughts.Uncensored.: October 2006
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." -Alfred Whitney Griswold. Sunday, October 22, 2006. Schools Fail To Teach Classics. London, it seems, has the best articles on classic literature. What does that say about us? Anyway, this article makes really good points arguing that teachers should teach the classics. I think the answer is as simple as it is com...
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Creative.Thoughts.Uncensored.: December 2006
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." -Alfred Whitney Griswold. Sunday, December 03, 2006. Battle of the Books". The problem with "problem" young-adult fiction. What are we trying to accomplish? In the end, we must start at the begining and rethink this thing we call education. Posted by uncensoredthoughts at 4:22 PM. Teacher Talk. About YA Lit".
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Old Man Dragonfly: Possibility Thinking
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Sunday, October 22, 2006. To the common question, "what does this actually look like in schools? Has constructed his many ideas and visions for Web 2.0 technology in public schools into the format of an entertaining story entitled, " A Day in the Life of Web 2.0. In his blog, 2 Cents Worth. He describes his article as "a miandering. Tour of a handful of applications of read/write tools in the culture of a school.". Could serve to make what happens in the classroom more public follows:. Is worthy of other...
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Old Man Dragonfly: Google for Teachers proves a disappointment so far...
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Sunday, October 22, 2006. Google for Teachers proves a disappointment so far. Andy Carvin's October 13th article, " What's Up With Google For Teachers? In PBS teacher sources' learning.com caught my attention today. Apparently Carvin is not the only one who thinks that Google for Educators. Some of the responce comments painted the problem in a little less sinister light. Jeremiah McNicoles, for instance, explained " I honestly think Google starts most of their Google Labs projects off in this way. Harga...
