Posted in pedagogy, teaching, technology, tools, universal design for learning, web2.0 on Jan 19th, 2006 Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in epistemology, no child left behind, pedagogy, standards, teaching on Nov 14th, 2005 Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in teaching, technology, tools, web2.0 on Aug 23rd, 2005 Comments Off
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. [...]
