Multi-faceted Refractions

[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 [...]

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Thanks to the efforts of David Warlick, who has encouraged and inspired many of us to take the leap into blogging and who has created one of the better tools, hitchhikr.com, which allows those unable to attend conferences an aggregator so that those who are cannot attend a conference a peek into what is being [...]

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This evening, I live blogged Ian Juke’s keynote presentation at the Laptop Institute in Memphis, Tennessee. To use one of my favorite quotes from that great philosopher and ball player, Yogi Berra, the message was “like deja vu all over again.” Ian recited a message that I have been hearing and am beginning to discuss [...]

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[This is being live blogged - please ignore mispellings and awkward wording] Talk about the issue of change. Easier to change a cemetary than curriculum – Woodrow Wilson Easier to change the course of history than a history course – Lou Salza State today – pile higher and deeper Any wonder that teachers have problems [...]

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