I was recently reading a post in the excellent blog The Tempered Radical, which was quoting another teacher as saying other teachers “…believe that you can’t truly know someone unless you have face-to-face opportunities to get to know them.” The post questioned that belief, and wondered if that was primarily because online relationships were generally [...]
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Posted in Policy, Practice, Theory on Dec 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
Okay, (now you know it’s Alice writing) since there was a mixup with authorship, I wanted to say that this post will be from both Michaele and me whatever the credits come up with…This starts from an email I got from Michaele today about phonics based instruction, and the [...]
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Posted in Research, Theory, Web 2.0 on Dec 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
Well, the title was definitely my style in, Wonder If This Is Going to Work, a post that Larry Ferlazzo recently had me assist in adding to the blog. The problem was that although the original post was put up with me as the author for only a minute or two, it went out on [...]
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I’ve posted in the past about my feeling skeptical if an engaging curriculum utilizing technology would be more beneficial to students than an engaging curriculum without extensive tech use. I’ve also shared, though, about how I am certainly open to be proven wrong, and that I hoped to teach two classes of the same [...]
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Posted in Practice, Theory, Web 2.0 on Dec 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
The Smart Mobs blog announced that a book chapter by Howard Rheingold titled “Using Participatory Media and Public Voice to Encourage Civic Engagement” was posted online by MIT Press this week. The book, Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth, is alsoavailable online.
One of the most common claims for using [...]
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