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Federal Election 2008: Where’s education?
“A Vision of Students Today” offers a sobering portrait of an education system that is deeply disconnected from today’s students and the realities of a wired world. Oversized classes, missing resources, under-staffing and a crisis of educational significance are just a few of the problems facing educators and students today. Is education working? Relevant? Meaningful? Ask [...]Howard Rheingold unveils Social Media Classroom
I, along with many other educators, have been eagerly awaiting news of Howard Rheingold’s radical new social media / virtual communities course at Stanford. What makes this course so different is the focus. Instead of stand and deliver lecture format, Rheingold’s students will direct their own learning through student-led inquiry and cooperative projects: “Within less than [...]Cory Doctorow on privacy
Author Cory Doctorow talks about privacy and technology and “what’s at stake if the persistent erosion of privacy continues unchecked.” Doctorow’s talk is part of a panel presented by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom at ALA’s 2008 Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. (via Boing Boing) Learn more: Cory Doctorow and organisations like the Electronic [...]Lively: Google gone wild
My avatar and my private Lively room Next to iPhone mania, Google’s Lively generated the greatest amount of buzz in my little corner of the social media universe this weekend. I got my first view via friends Flickr galleries, which conveyed a lot about their apparent demographic. In a nutshell, Lively is a virtual world - similar [...]Edusurfing with PMOG
This is PMOG, an online game that allows you to earn data points, level up and create thematic “missions” from your web surfing. You can also create portals from one page to another or drop some loot or a mine on a page for another PMOG player to discover. All you need is a [...]Profile Information
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Gettin' good gear: Play, pedagogy and engagement in World of Warcraft
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Hope my comment in your post wasn't too agressive....
Vincent