Dick Sblog

I’m grateful to the BBC Digital Planet podcast for alerting me to Peter Norvig’s address at the Association for Learning Technology’s conference on Learning for the social networking generation. Peter is the Director of Research at Google. His conclusion is that most education should be:
1    Centred on engaging, real-world projects
2    Explored in teams
3    Teachers are [...]

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One of the schools attended by my kids has a problem engaging a diversity of parents and an eternal problem providing good communications between parents and school (my son isn’t the only one who loses 90% of correspondence) and between different parents. So, I have a question – is anyone using social networking as a [...]

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Get a full list of iEARN projects here.  Get blown away by the range and scope of educational collaboration as we move into a new school year and the too often humdrum nature of lessons and homework.

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