By Stephen Downes
August 22, 2003
A Full Stomach Leads
to Better Learning, Schools Say
I think the
headline says it all. Is there any reason, any reason at
all, why a society that could afford it leaves its children
unfed? I hear from all sides about morality in society. But
before you begin to talk to me about the morality of this
or that, let's begin with the basics. This. If you won't
feed children, don't talk to me about morals. Ever. By
Corinne Purtill, Gazette.Net, August 20, 2003
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Syllabus
Syllabus launches a new
website, promising "more content; easier nagivation". Among
the features highlighted are "exclusive online content,
articles and expert opinion pieces... the Syllabus database
by key topics for information critical to you, [and] ...
easier navigation and interactive community resources such
as forums and polls." Check out the nifty navigation bar -
be sure to mouse-over the 'Conefrences', 'News' and
'Commentary' links. I gotta get me one of those.
By Various Authors, Syllabus, August 21, 2003
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Building the Maricopa Learning eXchange(Using
a Bit of Competition and Bribery)
It's no longer
three dimensional (though it has nice pictures of the three
dimensional original), but this web version of the Maricopa
Learning eXchange poster delivered to the recent Merlot
conference does something the original didn't really do: it
explains all the parts of the Learning eXchange and lets me
link to them. By Alan Levine, Maricopa Community Colleges,
August 21, 2003
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Email is Dead
Is this really the
end or this this just yet another 'end of the internet'
article? There is no denying that there is a problem. In my
own email box, spam easily outnumbers useful email, and
this is after filtering. Of course, it may just be that my
email reader is broken - Outlook is, as I have commented on
numerous occasions, the world's worst piece of software.
According to this author RSS will replace email. "In a
decentralized structure, multiple Feeds in aggregate
constitute an equivalent function to a List. Authors are
Readers and as an Author has a choice to offer a Feed, as a
Reader what to consume." Be sure also to read this reply from Chuq Von Rospach. By Ross
Mayfield, Corante Social Software, August 20, 2003
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Mapping Pedagogy to Technology: A Simple
Model
Via james Farmer comes this presentation
that outlines major features of some theories of pedagogy,
shifts them a bit, then maps them to technology
(specifically, WebCT Vista). I think it's a good (though
brief) presentation. But I am inherently sceptical of
models, no matter how well based in theory, that place
class management and administration at the center,
surrounded by everything else. By Jo Coldwell, August 23,
2003
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