David Carraher presents some valuable ideas; his Quicktime map attempts to integrate a number of players into an educational feedback matrix. JH _______

Weblogs In Education - Part II. There are barriers separating teacher education, curriculum development, and research about learning and teaching.

When I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago, some folks asked me to clarify my views about how these separate activities might be united.

Here are some "thoughts about an online course" (.mov 600 kB)--sketches about how a course in math or science education might be structured to address these concerns. The part about the weblogs comes near the end.

Sorry for being abstract. In the coming weeks, I'll try to think about specific implementation ideas for classrooms. [David Carraher] [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online]

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Good list of presentations from the Cetis Pedagogy Forum launch meeting in April.

[elearnspace blog]

Organizational learning.

Organizational Learning is No Accident makes an important point: effective learning requires time to reflect...and our "right now" form of communication (email, IM, etc.) doesn't allow reflection time...making it difficult for people and organizations to change (time being an important component to acclimate to changes).

[elearnspace blog]

My hypothesis is that blogging or any other disruptive technology tool may be appropriate for educators to put their thoughts and ideas onto digitial paper. We need more voices from the field of teachers who successful despite tbeing oppressed by politicians who have no notion on how to constructivetly help educators in the field nor about how children learn.