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Online Professional Development

by Mark December 23, 2010 cooperative_learning

Massive Open Online Course, is one model for online professional collaboration and development which might work well.

This is What I’m All About As a Instructional Technology Resource Teacher

by Mark December 15, 2010 instruction

This is What I’m All About As a Instructional Technology Resource Teacher

"Blackboard is Safe" is a False Premise

by Mark October 18, 2010 technology

Blackboard costs a great deal of money, models bad behavior by forcing students to divulge private information in the course of their work and fails to be a more significant barrier to prevent children accidentally viewing porn.

Design A Computer Lab

by Mark October 2, 2010 classroom_culture

The Four Best Computer Laboratory Layouts for Schools have a lot of similarities to subdivisions in southern Florida.
Subdivisions are built to squeeze the most humans into one place while keeping them from interacting, “We love our neighborhood, but no, we haven’t really gotten to know the neighbors yet.” It seems both traditional computer lab setups and subdivisions are designed for individual, parallel play, in a confined space.
But all the research points in the other direction. In computer labs there should be talking. Groups of children talking, sharing, collaborating.

Book Affects

by Mark August 14, 2010 instruction

We teach how to read a book, its parts, how to interact with the object … Gestures from João Machado on Vimeo.

How Media Works … A Synopsis

by Mark May 21, 2010 cooperative_learning

Nike captures how new media works–the social aspects–we need to know this. We’re just starting to scratch the surface of the motivating aspects of social media as a tool for learning.

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