The Latest on Virginia Tech, From Wikipedia – New York Times: “” According to a recent article in the New York Times, the Wikipedia served as “an essential news source for hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet trying to understand the shootings at Virginia Tech University. The Times reports that at least 2074…
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The Importance of Authenticity in Teaching
NPR : Just Like Pastrami Garder Writes: First Resolution for 2007 I’d been meaning to return my blog, but thought maybe I’d wait until later in the month, since so it wouldn’t seem quite so much like a New Year’s resolution. (Didn’t want to seem like all the new folks that will show up at…
Will Richardson’s Vision of Self-Directed Learning
Will Richardson and Self-Directed Learning to the Extreme I found out some time ago that the real test of our beliefs is how they play out with our own kids. For 14 years, I used Dick Bolles’ book What Color is Your Parachute as a guide to how to organize a self-directed job search. The…
Introducing Life-Long Learners to Web 2.0
Learning 2.0 – Main This program came to my attention through a brand new blog that I’ve just added to my aggregator. (Welcome to the blogosphere, Charlotte!) The project was designed to introduce members of the staff at the Public Library Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in North Carolina. PLCMC Staff members who completed all 23…
I Love it When A Project Comes Together
TIP Community » Image Cataloging We’re getting to the point where some of our Technology Integration Fellows are beginning to see the results of their work for the semester. We’ve asked them to post regular progress reports to the TIP Community blog and now enough work has been done that the reports are getting much…
Reflections of An Adult Educator
Mark Federman is posting an interesting series of reflections as part of a PhD seminar on “The Political Economy of Adult Education.” The reflections are in response to a paper written by Ian Baptiste and Tom Hearney titled The Political Construction of Adult Education. The paper provides a fascinating dialogue in which Baptiste and Heaney…
Recources for Autodidacts: Free College Education?
Technophilia: Get a free college education online – Lifehacker This is a large collection of links to free on-line courses, syllabi and other learning resources. The web has made it easier than ever before to get a free education, and you’d join the ranks of great thinkers in history who were also self-taught, like Joseph…
Moderating Webinar Presentations: New Role for the 21st Century
David Warlick: A Tough Day I never was a big fan of most integrated “webinar style” distance education tools like Elluminate Live or Tegrity, but part of the reason may have been that they require such extraordinarily strong moderators to be successful. My most recent experience was as a guest speaker with a group 50…
Q&A with head of U. of Phoenix
Q&A with head of U. of Phoenix The University of Phoenix is usually portrayed as the devil by most traditional higher education providers, but the new president seems like a pretty normal guy. With 300,000 and 250,000 graduates, Phoenix is largest accredited private university in the country. I was surprised at how inexpensive the typical…
Pluto Article in the Wikipedia
2 Cents Worth » New Shape of Learning & the Wikipedia I have to admit that the recent decision that Pluto wasn’t really a planet made me a little queasy. How does a teacher explain to a group of 4th graders that some things in their text books really aren’t true any more–but that they…
