Posts Tagged ‘21st century learning’
How schools get it wrong
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 12, 2009
Some articles I am reading…
How Schools Get It Wrong
http://www.thestar.com/atkinsonseries/atkinson2009/article/718262–how-schools-get-it-wrong
Are Schools Preparing Students for 21st Century Learning?
http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/11/02/are-schools-preparing-students-for-21st-century-learning.aspx
Will the Digital Divide Close by Itself?
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/will-the-digital-divide-close-by-itself/
Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/nurtureshock/archive/2009/11/05/why-teenagers-are-growing-up-so-slowly-today.aspx
Alan November on integrating technology
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 29, 2009
Here is a video offering interesting perspectives on technology integration in schools. Here are my takeaways…
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Alan November believes that schools are using the Internet mostly for information instead of collaboration. He also added that the biggest barrier is not teaching teachers how to use technology but for them to shift control to students. Students [...]
Are schools cheating kids?
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 9, 2009
After reading Larry Magid’s article on the NECC yesterday, I decided to see what else he had written. One article titled Kids cheating with tech but are schools cheating kids? caught my eye.
He started by revealing some statistics on how kids were using cell phones to cheat in school. He then went on to ask [...]
If the future is like cars
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 20, 2009
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…then schools now are like railways.
You’ll get run over if you have a one-track mind!
Shift happens!
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 30, 2008
For some reason or other, my primary RSS aggregator, Bloglines, does not read Edublog feeds very well. I know because I maintain a personal blog at EduBlogs, but don’t get regular feeds even though I write entries in that blog every week day.
Worse still, I may have missed some thoughts that my preservice teachers have [...]
