Carolyn Foote wrote this week about the new Pew study on the effects of technology on teen writing. An article about the study in eSchool News (free subscription - well worth it - required) pulls out a few details that for me, at least, suggest some weird thinking. The “news” that
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Category Archives: 1to1 laptop
For the Roses: My Latest Position on Classroom Blogging
May 1, 2008 – 5:29 am
Student Project Blog as “Business”?! Podcast with Two PLN Class Students
April 22, 2008 – 1:22 am
Jaeho and Younsuk were gracious enough to give me a half hour of their time this Monday night for this Skype interview about the Basketball Without Borders blog and podcast project. I’ll go ahead and re-embed the video interview I shot with them directly after their Skype interview with their college basketball hero KJ […]
Beyond RSS: Using Alltop.com to Teach Writing
March 29, 2008 – 3:13 pm
This is the excellent foppery of the world.
–Edmund, in Shakespeare’s King Lear
Remember last summer those Korean Christian missionaries who came up with the bright idea of spreading their gospel in, of all places, Afghanistan? Sure you do. It was all over the news for a couple weeks. They were taken hostage by the […]
Basketball without Borders Slam Dunk: Networked Learning Class Update and Video
March 25, 2008 – 2:16 pm
It’s been about six weeks since my last update on the ten-week-old Networked Learning class I created with the help of so many of you in the initial Open Thread post and Twitter. Students are still grading themselves and justifying it - and showing the same fondness for grade inflation as so many […]
Podcast: Three Schools Discover the 21st Century!
March 22, 2008 – 1:07 am
One for the MiniLegends
[Update: I was out of the loop preparing for my wedding when Australian Al Upton’s MiniLegends and Qatar’s Jabiz Raisdana got hit by two shockingly reactionary hammers. Since this podcast features Noel Thomas, an Australian high school principal representing all that is most forward-thinking and impressive about Australia’s educational system, I’d […]
