Archive for April, 2008
Can We Talk about BJ Fogg
http://bjfogg.com/
http://captology.stanford.edu/
http://peace.stanford.edu/
I will actually write about him at some point.
The MacArthur Foundation does it again
$1.8 million grant to expand IU School of Education immersive learning project
MacArthur Foundation follows half-million dollar grant to professor’s Quest Atlantis project in 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 26, 2008
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has granted more than $1.8 million to the Indiana University School of Education to expand the immersive [...]
Technology in classrooms
Check out this article from Sun Systems regarding the impact of technology in a low income school.
Technology transforms teaching; Schools are bringing the latest methods into classes, but some question the impact on learning
Posted By Moira MacDonald
School principal Cheryl Paige is a self-described “Mother Hen,” who dotes on her students like they were her own [...]
Check this out from einstruction
Students, Teachers Challenged To Define Role of Technology in Education
by Dave Nagel
Ed tech developer eInstruction this week launched its new Content Meets Technology contest, which challenges educators and students to share their “vision of the role of technology in education.” Winners of the competition will receive an interactive classroom makeover.
Those wishing to enter must submit [...]
From Tech Dirt
UN Tells Online Game It Can’t Have A Fake United Nations
from the even-if-it-does-good-work? dept
Ed Powell writes “On April 1, the online game NationStates, in which players create their own simulated nations, changed the name of its United Nations feature to World Assembly. It claimed that “The (real) United Nations has demanded NationStates ‘immediately cease and [...]
Joan Ganz Cooney Center
http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/index.html
The First Annual Symposium
Logging Into the Playground: How Digital Media Are Shaping Children’s Learning
The Center’s inaugural symposium will be held in New York City on May 9th. The invitation-only gathering will engage leaders in research, industry, policy, philanthropy and education—the key sectors that must work together to effectively harness digital media to advance children’s learning. [...]
Grockit rocks my world
Grockit Blog
Education for Civilization
Yesterday, April 07, 2008, 8:44:09 AM | Farbood Nivi
Here are a couple of quotations from University of Texas’s President Faulkner in his State of the University Address on September 21, 2001. He discusses, among other things, the idea that part of the purpose of a University is to promote civilization.
“Over thousands of [...]
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