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The Myth of the Digital Native

Friday, October 20, 2006

I’m sitting at my kitchen table doing some marking (mid semester marks are due in 2 weeks), and I’m listening to and watching David Warlick in his keynote address to the K12Online Conference (thanks to Dean for the link). I like a lot of what David says, and I respect his thoughtfulness in the field [...]

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Presentation Screencast: Personal Learning Environments – Live at Edinburgh

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Graham Atwell has published a screencast of his presentation Personal Learning Environments – Live at Edinburgh. There’s just so much I like about his presentation, but two main ideas stand out in my mind: A personalized learning environment is not an application. It is a suite of services which could be, I suppose, web based [...]

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By the way, Stephen seems to be back(ish)

Monday, May 8, 2006

I meant to mention this earlier, but it seems like Stephen is back somewhat from his hiatus. Given the hysteria around web based e-mail accounts, MySpace and other threats to the educational orthodoxy, the timing couldn’t be better. Its good to have you back, Stephen. We need all the help we can get, now more [...]

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Best of luck, Will

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

I could sense a growing disturbance in the force for some time now, and here is the first (and probably not the last) manifestation: Weblogg-ed – Reinvention Chapter 2 – I Quit In a nutshell, Will Richardson has quit his day job to pursue his muse, wherever that may lead him. Will, I am happy [...]

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