Jennifer Wagner had a twenty minute conversation yesterday with Mike Lawrence, executive director of CUE, regarding DOPA and CUE’s recent announcement to formally oppose the legislation. Check out the podcast! Technorati Tags: dopa
Archive for October 3rd, 2006:
British teachers support instructional autonomy
The BBC article “‘Free up curriculum’ teachers say” cites a survey of British teachers finding they overwhelmingly support the idea of having more instructional autonomy in the classroom: ATL leader Mary Bousted said the system was failing to engage children and should be replaced by a skills-based curriculum drawing on local knowledge. But the government
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Nontraditional peer review
Much of web 2.0 content is peer reviewed, but certainly not in the traditional sense. In academic circles, the “peer review process” is highly regarded as a means for filtering out sloppy research and bestowing prestige on the “best and the brightest” in the academic research community. Traditional peer review of research has been around
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Deep tagging video
Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch article “All The Cool Kids Are Deep Tagging” discusses how “deep tagging” video content posted online can help others locate content of interest faster than search engine algorithms: Figuring out how to search the meta data around rich content (tags and lots of other descriptive data) is big business. Truveo, a video
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Our need for more dialog in the face of fear
When the Columbine school shootings happened in 1999 I was teaching at Rush Elementary school in Lubbock, Texas. I remember the next day I was working with a class of first graders, and their teacher remarked to me that the students didn’t really understand where Columbine High School or Colorado was in relation to Lubbock,
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