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True = Solution ....Does it help you accomplish your goal?... - dfw
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Red Dead Redemption... - dfw
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I had a teacher tell me, a while back, that his son paid for his college tuition by selling digital assets on YouTube... - dfw
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http://goo.gl/NmWD http://goo.gl/NmWD ... - dfw
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But this is part of the shift we are all talking about -- from the teacher as dominating that disuucs... - dfw
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But this is part of the shift we are all talking about -- from the teacher as dominating that discussion,to crafting the experience and guiding the discussion... - dfw
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But what we measure are right answers. Those are the only answers that are valuable -- as teaching and learning are currently measured. It's my opinion that we need care less about the right answer, and more about what they can do with the answers that they find, discover, or invent.... - dfw
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Prototypes -- ... - dfw
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I think that the public could be convinced otherwise, if they were shown a compelling alternative. The do not want their children having that kind of pressure. ... - dfw
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Isn't that our job -- really? Aren't we making ourselves obsolete?... - dfw
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It's part of being literate. In a sense, librarianship has become a personal skills It's one reason why librarians are so important to schools... - dfw
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There are a lot of bogus web sites out there... - dfw
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Well put!... - dfw
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http://martinglutherking.org. There is a step by step of that demo in the online handouts. The direct link is http://goo.gl/MQwuX ... - dfw
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Yes, but my question would be, "How long does that take?" I've worked in some schools where if the teacher encounters a web page that is blocked, and the teachers needs to use it, then the teacher has the password to unblock the page for a limited amount of time.... - dfw
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Yes! Interesting. Doesn't that, in a way, make the students responsible for uncovering what is true -- like a detective? Is that empowering for the students?... - dfw
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If this is about Wikipedia, I think that part of being literate today is understanding what sites like wikipedia are really good at, and what sources like Encyclopedia Britannica are really good at. ... - dfw
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Again, why not allow teachers to unblock appropriate sites?... - dfw
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Unblock most everything and then give them a compelling reason to go for the good stuff... - dfw
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Wait a minute. Are you talking about teachers abusing the information?... - dfw
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Surely you're not saying that there are administators who do not have access to computer and the Internet!... - dfw
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Why do you not like Excel. Is it Excel or is it spreadsheets. I think that spreadsheet software is a mathematics tool... - dfw
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Absolutely not. Our job is to teach students to communicate and to communicate in order to accomplish goals. Students should learn how to decide when text is more appropriate or video, image, sound, or what combination of those media... - dfw
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If she was my student, I would be asking, "How do you know that is true?" My students would be in the habit of defending their work... - dfw
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It's one of my favorite quites, "20th century education was defined by its limites. 21st century education will be defined by its lack of limites."... - dfw
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One of the things that I am suggesting is that we start to define teachers as master (adaptive, resourceful, experimental) learners.... - dfw
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The only difference between Raleigh and the little down a grew up in, is that I'd have to drive further to the airport. That's it. There is very little that I'm doing in Raleigh that I couldn't do in my home town... - dfw
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There are a number of educators who are experimenting with SL and especially with emersive video games. Look to these two educators
Peggy Sheehe -- http://metaversedltd.com/
Lucas Gillispie -- http://edurealms.com/?tag=lucas-gillispie ... - dfw
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This, I suspect, is a temporary problem ... - dfw
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Bingo! It's because some of us still think it's a technology problem. In reality, it's not even a new problem. I had a drawer in my teachers desk where I confuscated inappropriate materials that I found in student possession. We'll get over it ... - dfw
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But you have to have boundaries. You have to have hard places to move forward. Walls and and book covers are way to confining. I'm not sure what the hard places are. The kids would say it was each other. But I do know that the avenues will be mulidimensional. As you are listenting and watching me, you are also conversing here in Knitter, or you may be Tweeting, or writing a blog article, and the conversation continues afterway, beyond the boundaries of place and time. I think that the hard place for you and I is, "Does this help me do my job?" So perhaps our angle should be to make formal learning a job... - dfw
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Yes, but again, nothing new here. It's not a technology problem. The problem is that our society is producing some really creepy people. The problem isn't as big as the media would have us believe. ... - dfw
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