As technological skills become synonymous with literacy, it is imperative that students learn to use emerging real-time technologies for research, experimentation, problem-solving, collaboration and creativity. Tech-savvy teachers are already taking advantage of these very technologies to build their own skills and lesson plans.
The Real Time Web & K-12 Education – In and Out of the Classroom
Amen.
Young digital natives are training their brains for technological expertise but are not developing neural networks that modulate the ability to maintain eye contact during a conversation, recognize non-verbal cues, and perceive and convey empathy.
Even with cheap printed books, you can tell that someone proofed every page. With many e-books, they’ve clearly just been run through a converter with no proofing whatsoever.
Daring Fireball Linked List: Texts, as Opposed to Books
Astute comment from Gruber that reminds me of the transition from handwritten manuscripts and texts (often laboriously copied) to texts manufactured on printing presses at the end of the late Renaissance.
Over the next five years, I expect for ebook curation and formatting to become a serious issue. This will be especially true for the education space as we teachers continue to move away from textbooks and towards reading devices.
Pay Per VOIP
Me initially: “yay! Finally.”
Me after reading description: “wait, really? Sigh.”
I have no issue paying for services. However, paying for 3G calls via Skype even though I already pay Skype and ATT seems a little… opportunistic by the vendors?
Just sayin’
Summa Theologica (for Thomas Whitley)
MH McCormick Field Panoramic
McCormick Field is a Beautiful Ballpark
Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour.
http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/05/secret-lives-of-professors.html
I think I made the right decision to scrap my dreams of being the Professor in Good Will Hunting and go for the teacher in Dead Poet’s Society.
R.I.P. Phoenix via www.nasa.gov