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Platform for Participation = Media Literacy
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009Michael Wesh’s video ethnography “A Vision of Students Today” has made the rounds in the ed tech circles for some time but an explanation of how it came to fruition is detailed in his 2008 lecture given at the University of Manitoba. If you’re interested in media literacy, student learning, web 2.0, or education, [...]
Academic Affairs Technology Plan at Keene State College
Thursday, December 18th, 2008After laboring over the academic affairs technology plan for over a year, through many iterations, we’re finally done. Or at least done until its annual review.
Have a peek. You might be surprised to learn that it’s not about technology. Really, it’s not. It’s about learning, teaching, and work.
Go on, have a look.
Keene State College Academic [...]
Answering the “so what”
Thursday, November 27th, 2008I’ve never fully embraced the “digital natives/digital immigrants” label of Marc Prensky but I’ve used it often to describe the differences between young, tech savvy students and the their older less plugged-in teachers. It was an easy label to adopt because, on the surface, it made sense. Walk across a college campus and you see [...]
One-on-one with Tim Berners-Lee
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Okay, so it’s not really one-on-one but YOU do have an opportunity to get involved and ask questions to experts such as Tim Berners-Lee about net neutrality, democracy and the role of the web. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is hosting a June 11th ‘08 interactive debate on the future of the web in which YOU [...]
Net neutrality documentary
Monday, May 5th, 2008Melanie McBride posted this video documentary about net neutrality that needs a broad audience – hence I’m cross-posting it here (though it’s a slightly different version). The video, “Humanity Lobotomy: Net Neutrality Open-Source Documentary”, is 11 minutes long and contains information that is of interest to all internet users.