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Middle school teacher turns classroom into a RPG
Richard Incorvia is a teacher at the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment’s middle school who likes video games. He decided to turn his class into a role-playing-game. I’ll leave it up to him to explain as he does … Continue reading
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What makes a “future-oriented” policy? Towards a framework for identifying and analysing policies.
I have often emphasized the need for future-oriented policies in education as a response to rapidly increasing change to the extent that if I were to be asked, “Tryggvi, what are you all about?”, that would be the gist of … Continue reading
The important little things…
This is EASSy, the submarine cable that at long last gave East Africa a modern connection to the Internet in July, 2010. It has a capacity of 3.84 terabits per second. It is the highest capacity system in Sub-Saharan Africa. … Continue reading
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Sorry about unpublished comments
I just realized that a number of readers had commented on posts over the past few months and that their comments weren’t published. My system tagged them as spam and I didn’t see them. I get an incredible amount of … Continue reading
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Ubiquitous computing in education – really?
The January, 2010 edition of the Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment is dedicated to research on U.S. 1:1 (or one-to-one) laptop programs, i.e. school programs that supply a laptop to each and every student and teacher in the school. … Continue reading
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Educational change is cultural change
George Siemens, at the Connectivism blog, has written an interesting article that highlights several of the difficulties associated with open approaches to education. Siemens focuses on the policy changes needed to make open resources viable for education. There are especially … Continue reading
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