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Another New Kind of Search

From visual searches to verbal searches, (without intending to pull an Annie Hall) Marshall “The Medium Is The Message” McLuhan must be having a celestial party right now.
Podzinger is a search engine for podcasts. Rather than allowing you to just search for a podcast based on the title, description, tags, or categories (as podcasting [...]

Sizer on Teaching and Learning

I have to admit it — I have not read Ted Sizer’s seminal book, Horace’s Compromise, until now (I picked it up recently at the More Than Words bookstore). Actually, I’m still reading it, but I found a paragraph in the prologue (page 2) I wanted to share:
We can play at learning, without retaining [...]

Technological Reinventions (again)

There’s alot going on in the early-adopter-web-development-community right now, and like many others (e.g., Will Richardson, Alan Levine, Brian Lamb, and David Warlick) I believe that the impact of these new technologies — and the new mindset — will (eventually) have a pretty profound impact on the field of education and the business of learning. [...]