Expulsion threat over Facebook study group | NEWS.com.au: “A CANADIAN university threatened to expel a student for cheating because he set up an online study group on social networking website Facebook.”
Check out the article. Very interesting indeed. According to the article Ryerson lifted the expulsion threat but are giving him zero for the tutorial work. [...]
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Beyond Test Taking: Learning to Handle Information – Lifehack.org: “All of the tricks I have for learning new information when I was still in school just don’t work out in the real world. So many learning techniques focus on a test or classes where you have a clear chance of how to build on specific [...]
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Mathew Needleman has a site focussed around digital storytelling and the use of video in the classroom for primary school. There are lots of creation, planning and production tips including assessment rubrics that can be used along the way. Great resource. His current interest appears to be clay-mation (see the podcast). I’ve embedded a short [...]
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“Paul Thomson is an inspirational educator. He has fought many a fight with the Queensland Education Department, which is why he ended up setting up his own school, with the support of parents and other teachers.” That’s how the blurb read on my iTunes playlist. The original interview was from
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Came across this post by George Siemens via John Larkin’s blog. I enjoyed it.
Connectivism Blog
We need to have priorities here. Let’s tame technology and focus instead on what we already know and are comfortable with. Let’s ensure that technology does not get away from the tried and true method of containing innovation and new approaches.
It [...]
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