Tag: technology
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Grown Up Digital
How the net generation is changing your world Don Tapscott undertook some research back in the late 20th century (1997…) and wrote it up in a book called Growing Up Digital. It was a book about what it meant for the generation that his kids were in – to be growing up in a digital…
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Software will eat education Part 2 – Or what I actually really want from an online education platform
So I already said what I don’t want. But i’m still having a hard time articulating what I actually want from an online learning and teaching platform. It’s easier to define it in terms of the negatives. It’s much harder to come up with a feature list because I don’t really know the full extent…
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Software will eat education Part 1- Or what I really don’t want from an online education platform
What’s the difference between a standard sort of website and a website designed for doing education online? Hard to know really… but perhaps quite a lot actually is what I’m finding out. Basically, your standard kind of template driven brochure websites, even the ones with all the bells and whistles, are fundamentally different from what…
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Minecraft taught my kids everything they needed for life
My kids are hooked on Minecraft. In case you don’t know it’s a computer game. They play it on the iPad. I think there’s a PC version but I don’t know anything about that. What I do know is that Minecraft has taught them everything they need to live a fulfilling life. I’m not sure…