Monthly Archives: September 2010
New technologies initiatives: questions to ask (Chris Lehmann)
Image: ‘Army Guard Father, Son Fly Together‘ on Flickr here Moving forward with new technologies in education is a main focus of all schools now. Or it should be. As with everything, leaping in blindly is not the best way … Continue reading
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What do you know about vodka and Matryosha dolls?
The origin of words and the culture and history behind them are fascinating. Jenny Luca sent me to the Words of the World website today and I’ve been having fun learning about my Russian cultural background. From Nazi to Chocolate, … Continue reading
Filed under 21st century learning, language
Nicholas Carr at The Wheeler Centre: We’re drowning in the shallows
Last night I attended a talk by Nicholas Carr at The Wheeler Centre. One of the world’s most ground-breaking and thought-provoking writers on technology and its impacts talks to Gideon Haigh. The celebrated journalist and author of The Shallows, presents his … Continue reading
Filed under debate, internet, network literacy, Social media, teachers, teaching, technology, Web 2.0
Are schooling and learning synonymous?
I’m adding a post about a post added by Will Richardson who added a post after he read a tweet by Alec Couros. Yeah. Will starts out like this: Yesterday, Alec Couros went “Back to School” to “Meet the Teacher” of … Continue reading
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TinEye – a revolutionary image search engine
There’s no doubt about it, TinEye is a great find for image use: TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, … Continue reading
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Fantastic Voyage
This has been cross-posted from Fiction is like a box of chocolates. Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 science fiction film written by Harry Kleiner based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. Isaac Asimov was approached by Bantam Books to write … Continue reading
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The world needs all kinds of minds
I agree with Temple Grandin, the world needs all kinds of minds. We should stop celebrating normal and worrying endlessly about what doesn’t fit within that normal. Temple’s ability to verbalise her own autism has broadened our understanding of what … Continue reading
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Art is…
My sister has worked for 3 years on a body of work – almost every Saturday afternoon and one day a week – which is currently being exhibited at fortyfivedownstairs. I admire my sister’s talent, dedication and intelligence as an … Continue reading
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