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Teaching Connectivism
Will Richardson’s latest post about the changing nature of the teaching profession got me thinking about Connectivism. Will writes: The Web and these technologies have transformed the way I learn, provided me with many teachers who push my thinking, given me the potential to direct my own education as it is. Why don’t more educators make it [...]
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25. March 2005
I found the following passage in Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage: The young today live mythically and in depth. But they encounter instruction in situations organized by means of classified information … Many of our institutions suppress all the natural direct experience of youth, who respond with untaught delight to the poetry and the [...]
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Final video of the Virtual Classroom Project hosted on the Islands of jokaydia in April and June, 2008. For more information about the project, click here.
Screenshots of the Virtual Classroom Project are available here.
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Asides 
Karyn Romeis responded to my South African reflection by linking to her own African tale. Her words struck a chord because I returned from Africa (South Africa and Kenya) only a few weeks ago, and my experiences there profoundly changed me as a teacher and a human being. Her entry took me back to many schools and classrooms that I visited in Kenya as part of the Teachers Without Borders-Canada project.
Here’s a link to Karyn’s entry and to a version I annotated using Diigo.
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14. September 2005
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