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What do I know about games in education? What do I think I know? What do I want or need to know?
There is much to enjoy and learn from in this K12 Online Conference presentation by Sylvia Martinez, titled Games in Education. Sylvia knows this territory well and her presentation is the perfect overview for [...]

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Experimenting with this new tool that I discovered through Konrad Glogowski’s blog. Not quite there yet, but willing to take the risk of publicly failing. Try number 4 is the gem - got it! Cool…

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John Maklary from Katy, Texas, United States is a Technology Coordinator and Middle School Computer teacher at a PK-8 parochial school in Houston, Texas. His ed tech interests as of late include Digital Storytelling, Geo-Literacy projects, and incorporating more read-write web tools in his classroom.

He attended a workshop session on Interactive American History Websites and [...]

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The Apple Tour of 21st Century Learning I attended this week offered a lot to think about. I created a mind42.com (a really useful free online tool) MindMap Apple: A Tour of 21st Century Learning to represent some of the ideas that were presented in the Opening Presentation and three hands-on-the-computer-they-give-you sessions. The differences [...]

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December 12, 2007
“The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect peoples sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, [...]

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PART 1December 5, 2007Well, maybe not an invitation to the actual dinner, you know how digital is its own reality, an digital invitation. I am going out to dinner Friday night at 6:00 p.m. with David Weinberger and some other folks from the scientific community in Woods Hole, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA. After dinner Mr. Weinberger [...]

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This is a pivotal point in my life - ya know, the “two roads diverged in a wood” kinda thing…. Sixteen years ago I went from a Mac to a PC and never looked back. That is until I started learning about Web 2.0 and meeting people associated with this more multimedia oriented learning community.
My [...]

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Stephanie Pace Marshall, at the end of her book The Power to Transform, pleads with us not to wait for others. She says “Courage is the capacity to claim what we imagine. If you are carrying this new story in your heart, now is the time to step forward. There is a place in the [...]

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With some help from AllanahK and Chris Betcher I was able to understand how VoiceThread works. But to really make it stick, I decided I needed to create my own.
Along the way I watched a VoiceThread on New Zealand money that Miss K’s class produced and titled Money, Money, Money. In their own words, [...]

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K 12 Online Conference David Warlick Keynote Chat Transcript
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David Warlick:
Challenge is, how do I model for my children — for my students. If we’re preparing our children to be free-agent workers (and that’s just a speculation), then perhaps we should help them to become free-agent learners.
DR: Powerful Learning Experiences?

I think [...]

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