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Social Annotation as learning tool
I came across a website almost two months ago, Diigo and decided to take a look today, maybe it is just me, but it sparked a number of exciting thoughts about potential educational applications . . ....
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Teachers should be anonymous . . .
My friend Paul Baker quoted me in a post about an article at eSchool News discussing Ohio’s “warning” to teachers to avoid social networking via the Internet. The article doesn’t suggest limits, it...
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Open access and Web 2.0 tools
I recently read an interesting review (at EducationPR) of the book, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship by John Willinsky. The book discusses the idea of “open...
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Redefining School in the age of Web 2.0
“The situated nature of learning, remembering, and understanding is a central fact. It may appear obvious that human minds develop in social situations, and that they use the tools and representational...
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Redefining School in the Age of Web 2.0: Update
Well, it’s been a few days since I began this process of explaining an idea of how a higher ed learning environment might look if it allowed itself to be influenced by the latest in technological...
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Freshman Year 2.0: Introduction
I have been re-reading the book Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins and it is as eye-opening the second time through as it was the first. I am struck by a concept that seems to keep coming back to...
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My Message From The Future
I was having my morning tea, reading my feeds, and following my Twitter stream when @markwagner linked to a blog post he wrote in ’07 and asked what message we would send from the future to the...
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The 6 Degrees of Your Network
There are scouts, those who go ahead and explore the landscape and discover the possibilities. They are followed by early settlers who arrive immediately after and discover uses of the landscape and...
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What if your school blew up?: The Little Becky approach to school reform
One of the most debilitating aspects of today’s educational environment is the fear of failure. No, I am not talking about students, I am talking about teachers and administrators. There is a constant...
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