Search results for: “reactionary”
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Questioning school funding trends and mandatory attendance
Discussions about School 2.0 should not take place in vacuum. We need to be realistic about ways schools can and should be changed, and one of the most basic things we need to address is school finance. I addressed this briefly in my spotlight address at the National Educational Computing Conference in Atlanta in June,…
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Podcast166: iPhone First Impressions from Devin Henley
This podcast features an interview this evening with my cousin, Devin Henley, who become an enthusiastic iPhone owner at 6:15 pm US central time on June 29, 2007. Devin discusses his initial impressions of the iPhone, gives an overview of its applications and features, and reviews the process of setting up his iPhone and syncing…
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The future is unwritten
I flew down to Houston today, and had an opportunity to listen in the airport, in the air, and a bit on the cab ride to my hotel to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates’ recent interview at the D5 conference. The interview and subsequent Q&A lasts 1.5 hours, and is available as a free download…
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Here come Star Trek communicators
When I visited Circuit City today to purchase their last iRiver T10, my eyes were immediately drawn to a new mp3 device on the shelf: the Sony mylo. This is not “merely” an mp3 player, however, any more than the iPhone (when it is released in June) is going to be “just” an iPod. Like…
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Bloglines Imagewall backlash
Miguel Guhlin is calling for a boycott on Bloglines based on their newly announced “Image Wall” feature which dynamically updates a page with fresh, user-contributed/posted images from the web. Before you actually view the imagewall, users have to agree to the following AUP: As Audrey, the first commenter to Miguel’s post noted, clicking on any…
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Educational web 2.0 tools
Solution Watch’s post “Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0” has a very comprehensive list of read/write web tools of interest to educators and students. There are quite a few here I had not heard of before, some of the more interesting are: Gradefix: “Gradefix intelligently organizes and prioritizes all of your homework…
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The case for instant messaging in the classroom
In most if not all 1:1 student laptop initiatives, “instant messaging” is a hot topic for both students and teachers. Typically and predictably, students want access to instant messaging, while many teachers and administrators see IM as a distraction comparable to video games. Both IM and video games are often regarded as “problems” for the…