Category Archives: Networked Learning

Networked Learning Class Reflection 1: Basketball without Borders Project

June 21, 2008 – 1:30 am

That Networked Learning elective “English Seminar” class I taught last semester ended two weeks ago. (Sift through the archives for related posts.)
For new readers or simply people not tuned in here during the last six months, here’s a recap: Ten students of mixed grades (9-12, ages 15-18), each with a MacBook laptop (the school is […]

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An Old Prophecy Confirmed? On the Uses and Abuses of Laptop Learning

May 29, 2008 – 4:10 am

In my third month of writing here about 21st century education, way back in March 2007, I put the pom-poms down, stopped cheerleading, and started thinking about all the ways schools can kill the learning that is possible when students have a simple laptop and a blog. This snippet from a post from back […]

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Unschooly Students on Teachers Teaching Teachers

April 28, 2008 – 6:34 am

I promised in an earlier post to give the link when Teachers Teaching Teachers posted its podcast with students weighing in on “How to Be Unschooly” in blogs, Twitter, and more. Consider it done. It is so worth a listen.
There’s something to say, too, about the back-story on this. Soojin, the Korean student who […]

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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 […]

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Fear-Based Curriculum: A Language Arts Tragedy (More on Teaching Lolita)

April 15, 2008 – 6:39 am

Extending my last post on why I think Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita should be required reading at some point in high school language arts classes:
In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Oedipus kills his father, then marries and impregnates his mother: we teach this parricidal, incestuous, antique “classic” to 14-year-olds.
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the prince’s uncle murders his brother […]

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