There is a lot of it about, a lot of find out about. short term I don’t think this will have any effect on Glow Blogs, long term who know. Here are some things I’ve been reading.
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Online Identity, don’t fence me in
…Whether explicitly stated or not, this is precisely what I see many folks advocating for with our students and educators alike. Telling kids to be careful and thoughtful in what they share is important. Telling them to be calculating and strategic is dangerous.
A veritable moth
@johnjohnston the fluttering hither and thither, a veritable moth, enjoying itself to the full of its bent. moth pic.twitter.com/OiWvLRYn2R
— moth generator (@mothgenerator) November 15, 2015
One of my favourite blog post series, Tom Woodward‘s Weekly Web Harvest had a good haul this week including a link to this delightful twitter bot, moth generator (@mothgenerator).…
Enviable Stuff 2015-10-25
Some gems from my Pinboard this week
- Howdy, Pardner! Round Up For #Western106
We are doing DS106 with a wide open theme of Western Stories– not West like the Western Hemisphere, but West like the Wild Wild West. It’s your standard Cowboy tales, and then not.
Learning to Code?
…If you want your kids to have a solid computer science education, encourage them to go build something cool. Not by typing in pedantic command words in a programming environment, but by learning just enough about how that peculiar little blocky world inside their computer works to discover what they and their friends can make with it together.
Enviable Stuff 2015-08-20
The blog I’ve enjoyed reading most this summer has been Clarence Fisher’s.
…I’m still a believer that my default classroom tech set up: classroom blog, discussion boards, individual blogs, wikis, google docs and hangouts, flickr, skype, and a few random pieces of production software (audacity, etc) does more to give kids a voice, to connect them with people on the other side of the globe who have new ideas for them to evaluate, than 90% of the VC dollars out there have done with the latest apps.
Holiday Reading
I’m not on holiday at the moment but taking the odd day off over the summer. Yesterday was one. I found a good set of amusing links, here are a few.
The New Devil’s Dictionary From The Verge updates Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary.…
What I’ll be reading tomorrow
Just picked up an a great looking set of links from twitter. To late to fully check out tonight.
- Street View Treks: – Yosemite – Google Maps
- Creating a Culture of Openness – Pilots to Policy to Prosperity | The Curiosity Forge
- #10DoT Ten Days of Twitter | Teaching Twitter for Academics
- Creating A Level Playing Field | Bill Boyd – The Literacy Adviser
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Life in Links 2015-05-21
- Homework is a Social Justice Issue – Hybrid Pedagogy
While schools can provide low-income students with warmth, food, supplies, and a knowledgeable teacher, asking students to bring essential work home with them may remove those pillars of support from their educational process.
Unexpected Practices
it is seldom about technology designers’ a priori plans for a technology, and more about users’ unexpected practices with it. That, to me, is the most fascinating and useful basis of research inquiry.