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John Willinsky and the Ten Years War
If you’re interested in education and technology, go (now!) and listen to Jon Udell’s recent interview with John Willinsky. Then go listen to Willinsky’s fascinating 1 hour lecture which deals with everything from Issac Newton as proto-blogger to Wikipedia error rates to why our exam-book culture is selfish and anti-intellectual. You might want to listen… Continue reading
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WordPress MU and eportfolio reporting requirements
I had the good luck this week to stumble into a very helpful blogswarm. And since it’s best to make use of their expertise while they are still checking back here, let’s cut to the chase. Here is the new thought, re: eportfolios and other WP projects needing data aggregation. Append an optional process at… Continue reading
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Enterprise Learning Systems Considered Harmful to Learning
Not a new thought, but one I’m newly fired up about after talking to Jon Udell last night. We don’t make enterprise purchases for students when it comes to spiral bound notebooks, pencils, or binders. So why do we move so quickly to consider e-learning questions “enterprise” questions? When looking at e-portfolio possibilities, why wouldn’t… Continue reading
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My first e-learning experience (1981)
We had a Z80Â -based computer in our house in the early 80s. This is the model, the Ithaca Intersystems DPS-1: To boot, you’d click up the two rightmost switches in sequence after turning the key. I used it for simple programming in a language called MUMPS. My first e-learning experience came unexpectedly. Accused by… Continue reading
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ePortfolios, Durability, and the Black Binder Test
My wife has an interview tomorrow for a position at the public high school. Tonight, she is preparing by flipping through giant black binder. What’s in the binder? A lot of stuff. Lesson plans from her student teaching days. Photographs from an inner city school activity she helped direct. The curriculum she developed for her… Continue reading
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Two Questions
We need to stop asking how we can communicate with our college students in their idiom, which is a valid question, but ultimately a marketing and customer service issue. We need to start asking the real question, which is how do we teach our students to collaborate and communicate in ways fit for the agile… Continue reading
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