This video is a little slow and repetitive … but in 3 minutes it gets the message across: online learning is not correspondence learning on a computer. (Or … it should not be!)
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A Vision of K-12 Students Today
I think the kids could be a little less I’m-a-very-sad-refugee-and-can’t-smile, but overall I like the message of this video:
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Sony Reader in use in K12 schools
This is interesting, particularly as a test for e-ink; however, it is worth noting that the VitalSource Library has been delivered on over ~400,000 computers in K-12. The Library includes over 2500 classics from literature, history, and the arts, as well as a dictionary (Oxford or Houghton-Mifflin) and, depending on the version, thesaurus or...
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This is smart: School sign-ups via Google Docs
Very smart idea from Charlene Li for all those school sign-up sheets we get bombarding our home:
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Intelligence in a Sea of Data: Teaching and Learning in the Google Generation
This is a 2700-word paper for ETEC 533, a course in my Master of Educational Technology program at UBC. Excerpt: But when just about anything anyone wants to know is a simple search away, what, specifically, constitutes education in the age of Google? And, is it enough to know about, without knowing how, or...
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Finito!
Today I finished the last requirements for the current course in my master’s program: a 2-part, 4000-word paper. Phew! This semester has been a long, tough haul, with a lot of work for school, and a lot of work for work. I’m looking forward to breathing a bit this summer as I don’t have...
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Triumph
Triumph Originally uploaded by johnkoetsier My daughter Gabrielle won her school’s spelling bee this past week Thursday. I was in Winnipeg for a quick business trip, but my wife Teresa took pictures and our son Aidan (4) took video. The really cool thing beyond Gabrielle winning is that she’s in the lowest grade of...
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Unbelievably busy
Well, I haven’t gotten around to doing anything at all on my new combined blog in the past week or so. Part of the problem is the new job and the tremendous workload as I transition out of the old and squeeze into the new. Another part is the two courses I’m taking for my...
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