Archive for June, 2006
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
For all my good intentions of getting up to speed on my reading, I've tripped over the massive pile of marking that comes at this time of the year. I just can't seem to get into the swing.
I did manage to rip about 2000 words out of a paper ...
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Today, I was talking to Prof JG about some e-research stuff and he mentioned that someone he is co-authoring a book with (I think that was the relationship) has written a compiler that will allow anyone to construct computer programs in their native language.
My first thought (and the first words ...
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Saturday, June 17th, 2006
Hey , guess what I found! Computer Camp_Love as a downloadable MP3 (plus some of Datarock's other works).
Oh, and Download this song!
Yeah, I know, it's myspace, by meh, that's where the moosick is!
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
Well, I started to read a paper today, actually, it's the paper that lead me back to Prensky's paper. I'll finish this one, but it's lead me even further back to Ong's notion of orality. There could be an interesting link between that and wiki oriented learning.
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Thursday, June 15th, 2006
I have just read Marc Prensky’s Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (again). This was the paper where he calls for a radical shift in the way we teach. He believes there has been a fundamental change in today’s students, that possibly their “brains have physically changed” that they are ...
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