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Khan Academy

Khan Academy

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Khan Academy, started out as one individual making math videos to help explain difficult concepts, it has grown 2,100 videos, and includes exercises and assessment.  The mission, to provide high quality free education to anyone in the world.  Topics focus primarily on math and science from elementary trough college levels. There are other topics related to business, finance and a growing history section. This site is well worth directing your students to or adding to any web enhanced learning environment….

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Why aren’t we learning?

Why aren’t we learning?

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Early this week I had the opportunity to spend the day at Google in Cambridge with technology administrators from MA. We met with Steve Vitner, Director Google Boston; Jamie Casap and Dana Nyugen, from the Google Apps for Education Team and; Abe Murray, project manager for Google Books. Part of the discussion centered around Google Apps for Education and the recent changes with administrating the service.  We also discussed the need for people to enter the computer/information technology fields. But the…

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You are not crazy

You are not crazy

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Liz Davis wrote a summary of her take away from EduCon, which I think reflects the elusive feeling I took away from the weekend. Before continuing please read her post.  I left the following comment, which I continue below. Liz, I too have this odd, elusive feeling leaving EduCon.  Seems more intense this year then in the past. I am not sure if it is frustration, annoyance, or what.  I just know I leave unsettled.  I have always thought that…

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Reflections on EduCon: Vision and Change

Reflections on EduCon: Vision and Change

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I finally have a chance to sum up my experiences from spending a few days in the ‘think tank’ that is EduCon.  I have been to all four so far and always leave unsettled, with many more questions then I when I came.  I just can’t quite sum up my feelings. It is like having something on the tip of my tongue, I just can’t grab that fleeting thought. It is most annoying and won’t go away.  So knowing I…

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A Tool it just a Tool

A Tool it just a Tool

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I have been following a few conversations recently that have focused on the negative aspects of technology and it disturbs me.  The belief is that technology causes people to be withdrawn, anti-social and isolated.  That technology gives people the freedom to bully, lash out, and lie therefore more of that behavior occurs. This is glass half empty thinking. Technology can be enriching, allowing communication and collaboration where it was not possible before. It can  be perceived as isolating when we…

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Accountable to Whom? Accountable for What?

Accountable to Whom? Accountable for What?

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Continuing with my theme of questioning I have begun to look at the words we continually use in education. Today’s word is Accountability. I am an educator and I hear the word accountable almost every day.  I just searched my reader and found Accountable and Accountability in many of the my unread items.  It is a term we use, read, and write about often.  When I come across the word I always want to ask “Accountable to Whom?  Accountable for…

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Questioning

Questioning

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To me the word question is essential to learning.  A learner asks questions and seeks answers.  Questioning leads to deeper understanding and increased knowledge. Questioning is essential to growth. Over the last few weeks this word had caught my attention in the news, my twitter feed, conversations and my rss reader. Questioning seems to have a more negative connotation then positive in my recent experience. I have been wondering if this impression prevents our students from asking questions.  The Merriam-Webster…

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