I just read an article in the NYT about how some Shanghai MS students came out on top of 65 other countries in some standardized math tests. They explain their emphasis on discipline and wrote learning, discuss how the Chinese culture has effected their outlook on education and even briefly how confucianism had a role in [...]
Read the rest of this entry »1-1 Computing at the University of Virginia leads to the elimination of computer labs
Last week the department of Information Technology and Communication at the University of Virginia released a memo announcing the closing of most of the computer labs in the university over the course of the next couple of years. The reason? In their survey of incoming freshmen for the class of 2012 the found that all [...]
Read the rest of this entry »So many conferences, so little money
I’m spending some time tonight going through my open Firefox tabs that I’ve been babysitting for the last couple of weeks and posting the best ones to the blog here. One that I picked up somewhere along the way was a link to a conference for 1-to-1 laptop initiatives in Memphis, TN from the 19th [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Timing is everything – More on Using Social Media in Education
Just yesterday I posted that I was interested in putting together an unconference on Using Social Media to Reach Stakeholder Communities. Today I’ve seen an article that illustrate exactly what I’m thinking about. In this eSchool news article, Nora Carr discusses the numbers, demographics, and usage patterns of cellphone users in the US. They are [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Ed-Tech Unconference on Using Social Media to Reach Stakeholder Communities
I’ve been a fan of Dave Winer’s concept of the un-conference ever since I first heard about it. I’ve talked about it before here and tried to garner interest in a Leopard release Chicago Unconference here. The format is ideal in that it doesn’t place anyone’s agenda or pre-conceived notions above those of anyone else [...]
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