A techie’s view

My Thanks …
My thanks go to Chad Sansing (web site: http://classroots.org, twitter: @chadsansing ) for prompting this post.
His tweet was “what would make school relevant? what would happen school divs were portflios? what if we standardized authenticity?”
For people less acquainted with school divisions (like me!) he went on to explain “what if schl systems purposefully [...]

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My Thanks …
My thanks go to Tomaz Lasic (blog: http://human.edublogs.org , twitter: http://twitter.com/lasic) for prompting this post.
“I Have Had Kids Tell Me …”
Tomaz’s original tweet was “I’ve had kids tell me I suck as teacher because ‘I don’t teach them anything’ (i.e. tell them the ‘right’ answer). Think sunshine!” which set me to thinking very [...]

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OR: Memories of being a Computer Numbskull
The title of this post was chosen as a reminder to myself of the impact of information technology on my own reality in perhaps much the same way as it may have just had upon you, dear reader. It was this: “What on earth is going on?”
Having been in [...]

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