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Christopher D. Sessums - Working Very Hard, Very Hard Work - Christopher D. Sessums : Weblog
The question came up in conversation today, and I confess, I believe that the revolution in education will take place (is taking place) outside the system. This author disagrees. "Protesting the war by waving placards has some effect, but protesting the war by enlisting and laying down your arms or finding ways to derail the machine from within would seem a bit more effective..." Maybe, but this is a bad example; this sort of behaviour would get you imprisoned or shot in an army. [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on May 30, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Tom Hoffman - Web 2.0's Not GNU - ESchool News
"If you imagined that 'Web 2.0' represented a globally-distributed, morally-grounded social movement, it must be because you're looking for one. In that case, you won't be disappointed by the free software movement." A sharp, but in light of recent events, accurate comment. [Link] [Tags: Web 2.0] [Comment] From OLDaily on May 30, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Leigh Blackall - The Only Thing Worth Teaching is How to Learn - Educational Development
I have this feeling that the best things are written between four and five on a sleepless night (that's how my presentations are written - like Dave Warlick I never sleep well before a talk). Leigh Blackall writes, "When a student comes to us, it is probably for one of 2 reasons. They are a novice learner and need support in starting out their learning in a particular area (a bus ride as Jay puts it); or they are an already expert learner (a bicycle rider as Jay puts it) and have to be here because some other piece of paper From OLDaily on May 30, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Miguel Guhlin - Blog Tales - MGuhlin.net
I thought about including 'MySpace: The Movie' in today's presentation, but decided it might be a bit too much. This link may also fall into that category, but you can get the gist from this quote: "Dependency and fear retard the learning process. It is difficult, if not impossible, for students to develop moral values and solve ethical dilemmas when school never allows them to make a decision or mistake. They call it MySpace because it belongs to them, not you." [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on May 30, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Will Richardson - The Learner as Network - Weblogg-Ed
This could have been the alternate title to my talk today. A lot of the themes I explore are explored here. No coincidence, that. "The idea that each of our students can play a relevant, meaningful, important role in the context of these networks is still so foreign to the people who run schools. And yet, more and more, they are creating their own networks, sharing, aggregating, evolving to the disdain of the traditional model of schooling that is becoming more and more irrelevant." [Link] [Tags: OLDaily on May 30, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Stephen Downes - What Do You See When You Look Through a Computer? - Stephen's Web
PowerPoint Slides (4 mg)and MP3 Audio (8mg) from my talk at CAUCE in Toronto today. I talk about how what we see changes when we look at it through a computer, and why this changes what we are doing as educators. [Link] [Tags: Podcasting] [Comment] OLDaily on May 30, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

World Cup Traffic Scores Worldwide Audience
Traffic to Yahoo's Official World Cup site attracted close to 6 million unique visitors in April. European's account for about half the traffic. From ClickZ Stats on May 30, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

New toys
This is a phenomenal little web ap I found out about on Stephen's Web. You enter the URL of a website and it draws a network map. The opening was mesmerizing, wathcing it trace links in real time. What do the colors mean? blue: for links (the A tag) red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags) green: for [...] From Internet Time Blog on May 30, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..