Jim and I went to school together--could be a great professional development oppt'y.
An American blogging about his job teaching in Turkey. There's a section I highlighted about a Turkish "Idol" type issue and the resulting MySpace mess.
The YouTube Wars
Prof. Akalın was probably pleased last week when, for a few days at least, we lost our access to that Eurovision winning song. In response to a satirical video that was offensive to the memory of Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, a Turkish court shut down any access to YouTube.com. The offending video was uploaded supposedly by Greeks wanting to antagonize their neighbors, and it prompted a war of offensive and counter offensive videos and endless (and pointless) comments. It is against the law here to insult Atatürk, but since the offenders were "out there" somewhere beyond prosecution on the Internet, punishment was levied on Turkish Internet users instead.
The story is even sadder as I remember attending a conference in Athens last fall with several Turkish colleagues, and we were pleasantly surprised at the warmth of so many Greeks, including several who spoke with us in Turkish.
When adults coopt what the kids see as "theirs" for schooling purposes.
Gets specific about the impact of gaming on students skill development.
Interesting. John Taylor Gotto on education and the value of less rather than more school. He mentions that the best programmers are self-taught.
More John Gotto--his speech as he accepted the Teacher of the Year award. Written in 1990, but spot on today.
WOW. I'm not sure what I think about htis. I'll come back more later.
The TED site is full of 18 minute videos of people speaking on original revolutionary ideas. Really shows the power of the web to spread intellectual discourse.
Gifted education ideas using web 2.0 with students from multiple schools.
Jim and I went to school together--could be a great professional development oppt'y.
Filtering is pointless? At least as a control. I'm still for basic filtering of flat out porn for 11 year olds.
Schools and marketing. Interesting.
Freaky. Reminds me of the sci fi of the 90's.
OK, I'm scared.
remember Gattica?
self assessment for learning styles. Looks cool.
Laptops and things to say about them.
list of rsources about learning, education, laptops. Covers the gamut. From Gary Stager.
Lori Bartels writes about 10 ways her knowledge of the brain influences the classroom.
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For those websites that seem to be more about the philosophy of Ed Tech rather than "how to"
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