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Category Archives: technology in education

Thoughts on online learning in K-12

Along with some colleagues, I toured around two different implementations of online learning in the K-12 system. In both cases, they have experienced substantial increases in the number of students that they serve. The growth in online learning among K-12 students is burgeoning and ready to cause some real changes in the way that we [...]

Seymour Papert injured in motorcycle accident

I’ve just read this post from Andy Carvin about Seymour Papert – Andy Carvin’s Waste of Bandwidth: Prayers for Seymour Papert. Seymour Papert was hit by a motorcycle and “gravely injured” while in Hanoi for a conference. According to a report at boston.com, the accident on Tuesday left Papert, 78, in a coma. An e-mail [...]

Blogs as tools to support a Community of Inquiry

I’m reading a paper right now entitled Comparing Weblogs to Threaded Discussion in Online Educational Contexts by Donna Cameron and Terry Anderson, published in the November edition of the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning (thanks to Stephen for the pointer to this). When I write that I’m reading it right now, I [...]

Wikibookwiki – a hybrid publishing model

Just saw this via Brian Lamb: Stewart Mader has published a book Using Wiki in Education, which has some interesting sounding (I haven’t actually read the book yet, so this is one of those Read The Fine Article reviews) case studies of wikis being integrated into a variety of settings. Stewart’s publishing model is an [...]

New EdTech Posse Podcast

Rick, Alec, Heather and I were sitting around a table at the SACE conference, and I had a recording device. Here’s the post at the EdTech Posse blog (I apologize in advance for the noise): EdTech Posse Podcast 2.2 – SACE conference conversation

Wireless PCs Motivate Students Says Study – Technology News by TechWeb

I saw this on Digg – Wireless PCs Motivate Students Says Study – Technology News by TechWeb Students are self-directed and get highly personalized instruction with their own computers and Internet access, according to The Center for Research in Education Policy at the University of Memphis, which released results of a report on the subject [...]

Protecting the children … from their right to communicate!

If you listen right now, you can hear that the edublogosphere is buzzing in outrage at the U.S. congress’ proposed Deleting Online Predator’s Act (DOPA). I found out about it from Will Richardson (Congress Targets Social Network Sites), but Stephen, Danah and Raj have mentioned it as well. (and on Kairos News, and Bryan Alexander). [...]

No webmail for you!

I just saw this via Darren Cannell – District blocks e-mail sites In an effort to promote achievement, which students say does the exact opposite, the school district shut off access this week to Web sites that offer free e-mail service, like Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail. The crackdown was sparked by concern that some students [...]

TLt 2006: Applying Learning Theory: The Media Challenge

Daniel Mittleholtz is presenting about Multimedia Learning Theory (Mayer), and how media should be applied to provide optimum retention of information. (Daniel has a MLT blog, as well as a podcasting blog). Started with an overview of the presentation and a slides summarizing Multimedia Learning Theory. problem of engaging learners online. We use e-mails and [...]

Wiki-ing the research process

A grade 11 biology class that I teach has been involved in an interesting project that I’ve meant to pass along to you. The course objectives include a study of classification of organisms and a study of some basic ecological principles. I wanted to combine these two into a long term project for the course [...]