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Entries from July 16th, 2007

My Next Live Blog Experiment

July 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment · laptop institute

In the next session that I am going to sit, Laptops, Libraries, and Collaboration, I am going to run the new tablet pc I am using through its paces. I am going to handwrite my notes, the old fashioned way, and then post them after I convert them to text.
How cool will that be?

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[Live Blog] – Let’s Design a new school for a 1:1 program

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Jim Heynderickx
What age do you start a laptop program? Jane Healy suggested 7th grade, since are ready to make a better leap to symbolic understanding.
Classroom size? Early results suggest 15.
What type of Demographics is best? Do laptops address digital divide issues for all students?
Does it level the playing field? if so, then want to have [...]

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[Live Blog] Understanding Digital Kids:Teaching and Learning in a New Digital Landscape

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments · laptop institute

Kids today are different. (Referenced two new Time magazine articles.)
Evidence is emerging that screens are not for passive dysfunction. Students are native and wired differently. We are immigrants, we speak digital as a second language. We retain some kind of an accent.
Children’s brains are chemically and neurologically different. They process in parallel, not sequential like [...]

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[Live Blog] – Will Richardson and the Read/Write Web

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments · laptop institute

[This session is being live blogged. Ignore the misspellings and awkward wordings]
[This post is simul-blogged at Multi-faceted Refractions]
The Read/Write Web – Conference Handout (willrichardson.wikispaces.com)
Refer’s to Karl Fisch’s Did You Know presentation.
It is about teaching children to become life-long learners.
Connectivity and transparency will become more acute, not going away.
Other entities reacting to the change – Election [...]

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I Get it

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

This morning, while rubbing the sleep out of my eyes, I realized the why the laptop conference was made to be held in Memphis. More later
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