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Archive for March, 2010

Photo courtesy of kharied on Flickr As we continue to teach students how to seamlessly embed quotations into their writing, it occurs to me that we have developed a new way to cite our sources, namely online and using hyperlinks. The hyperlinked citations are much more than an attribution of cited sources; they are also: [...]

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Derek Sivers received a standing ovation at TED for this talk about leadership. This really made an impression on me. I realised that, yes, it’s the first follower who plays a crucial role, he publicly shows everyone how to follow. This is so true, and I can speak from experience when I say this. Last [...]

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Howard Rheingold knows what he’s talking about when he says we need to teach our kids to be crap detectors, critical examiners of what they find online. No, not censorship – Howard recommends teaching kids to be detectives and investigate the authority of what they read online. Our kids need skills more than they need [...]

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“The real problem is not adding technology to the current organization of the classroom, but changing the culture of teaching and learning”. Alan November in “Curriculum21″ by Heidi Hayes Jacobs (found on Flickr in Great quotes about learning and change) I want to share with you a teacher’s evaluation of a ning as learning and teaching platform [...]

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How did your presentations go? People have been asking me this since last Friday when I faced two groups of people and talked about my experiences with nings, flickr (and briefly blogs) in the classroom, and how these things can create learning communities. Well, I’m not sure how I went, to tell you the truth. [...]

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