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Do You Blog?
My friend Sandra sent me this article, a good one about how high school students are incorporating weblogs into their lives. Will comments on it as well, in a post at Weblogg-ed.
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Mobile Gaming Will Change the Way We Teach
....Mobile gaming promises to blur the traditional boundaries of education even more than traditional gaming already has. The concepts of immersion and group work will be altered in interesting ways, and teachers will be able to create projects and assignments that provide learners with apprentice-like experiences in which they learn by doing in contexts that have real import.... [Xplana]
Oh, wow. This is really stretching for me, probably because I'm not really into computer gaming much (beyond solitaire, that is). But I jump at anything that claims to "change the way we teach." Maybe it's true in this case, but I wonder if it will happen in my lifetime.
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Worthy Webpages: My Weekend With The Fairy Books of Andrew Lang
[Xplana]
I loved this story of a teacher using the web to create a resource for her class. She didn't just put up a webpage with lists of links, but rather gathered, used, expanded material already available online and came up with something more complete. (It's the kind of fiddling and crafting that I really like to do.) Then, after 30 hours of work, she reflects, "[I]t's not just for me, and for my students - it is for everybody. It's on the open Internet. And is it an improvement on what was available on the Internet before? Absolutely! And is it the ultimate site? Absolutely not! Of course this should be a dynamic website, database driven, connected with other folklore and fairy tale research tools and indexes. And I surely hope that some graduate student out there might just grab this stuff and run with it - there's enormous potential here, that's for sure. But for now, I've got something my students can use. For me, it was already worth it."
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Zoom Into Maps
Another excellent online exhibit from the Library of Congress: Zoom Into Maps. Part of a special Learning
Page aimed at teachers, this interactive exhibit features information literacy tools and rich primary source maps.
Maps help us make sense of our world. A sampling of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division's 4.5 million treasures has been digitized and is available in Map Collections: 1500 - 2003. This activity introduces historical maps from the American Memory collections. A graphic organizer, for analysis and note taking, and a set of guiding questions for each type of map have been provided.
[Linnea's Liblog]
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Reflective and Self-organized learning
Personal Webpublishing as a reflective conversational tool for self-organized learning
Quote: "This paper suggests that personal Webpublishing technologies and practices can be conceptualized as a reflective conversational learning tool for self-organized learning. Beyond the examination of the theoretical basis for such a claim, initial ideas for specific learning environment designs on the basis of a "conversational framework" are presented."
Comment: I've just skimmed this article...printed it for detailed reading tomorrow. The most difficult aspect of writing a good article/paper is getting a "fresh concept" - one that is relevant to current happenings in the field...but goes beyond simply rehashing existing dialogue - it must extend it. Sebastian's got a winner here... [elearnspace blog]
My comment: This is just what I've been trying to talk to colleagues and teachers about. Now to find time to read and think about the whole article.
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