My partner came home from school tonight with a story of the young ex-student who visited to show and tell a liver transplant scar and to thank her year six teacher (my partner) for the belief in herself that she learned just four years ago. She said my partner was the most memorable teacher that [...]
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I was interested to see Dorothy’s post about searching (and tagging) On the other hand the same teacher instinct was apalled by how little progress we have made teaching people how to search in a way that will return the information they are seeking. Particularly using appropriate key words to refine our searches. I have been constructing [...] Friday saw a trip into town with Artichoke to see and hear Richard Stallman talking about Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks. RMS (as he likes to be known) was very engaging and spoke passionately about why there should be dramatic changes in global copyright law. The lecture theatre was packed to [...] This looks great: You play a secret agent infiltrating a top-secret neuroscience research facility. Your mission: to track down and root out the Nanobots that have invaded the brains of the scientists there. If you fail, the Nanobots and the secret entity that spawned them will take over the Earth, reprogramming the human brain into docile [...] Check out this site for some animations made by some local kids. They’ve been using Pivot Animator to create some crazy amazing little stories. There is a bit of a story to this website. The project started when some kids were introduced to Pivot Stickfigure Animator by their teacher. They were so excited by the software [...] From Harold Jarche, after commenting on an article about e-learning 2.0: My final comment on all of this is that almost any technology can be a learning technology. It’s how it’s used, not what is used. What’s the difference between a conference room and a classroom? What is the difference between a CMS and an LCMS? [...] What does a computer user really need to know? I’m talking about the checklist of skills here that mean that a person can operate the piece of silicon in front of them. This question is regularly thrown at me by schools that are doing their planning and want to know what skills they should be teaching [...] Back in 2000 I used a blog as a collaborative tool to develop a piece of work about the relationship between chaos theory and curriculum development. Last weekend, my collaborator found the link and I had another look. There were a couple of ‘ouch’ moments but on the whole I’m happy with the work that [...] And from the “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail” (Abraham Maslow) file comes this little story. This little program saved my wife and I a lot of of grief and emotional trauma while on vacation. Read on. I am a PopSci reader and linked to [...] |
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