A New Blog Location

Recent additions to the themes of this blog have been moved to a new WordPress site.  The new blog “Beyond the Crystal Ball” will focus on preparing teachers and  students for the 21st Century, so the focus has been expanded beyond the original topics covered on this site.  To visit the new blog click on [...]

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Web 2.0 and Education

I just came across two blog posts  that deal in a thoughtful way with the impact of Web 2.0 technology on education and the world at large.
1.   “Not Natives & Immigrants but Visitors and Residents” by Dave White presents this dichotomy in an insightful and useful fashion in terms of planning for distance learning [...]

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Academic Interest in Virtual Worlds and Games

There has been considerable interest in recent years in the study of virtual worlds and computer/video games. This interest can be broken down roughly into the following four areas:

Pure research
Knowledge and skills acquired while gaming
Games as educational models
Virtual [...]

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Predicting the Future

A friend just sent a link to a presentation by computer scientist and visionary Alan Kay on the topic of predicting the future. It’s a great piece with a lot to consider. There certainly are significant implications in Kay’s observations in terms of education and the use of some of the technologies that [...]

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