Bikers=Readers
Bikes without brakes and gears, know as Single-speed bikes have made a come back. I’ve been told they require the rider to make their way around the streets and trail old school, using instinct and quick twitch response rather than the overly cautious and limiting brakes and gears of modern brakes. I interpreted David Parry’s [...]
Brakes, Gears and RSS
July 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments
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What if we listened?
July 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Karl Fisch’s blog, The Fischbowl provides a great history of tech-phobia in schools in the US. Here is a review of the most dreaded going to ruin the kids advances that leading leaders in education have complained about from the last four hundred years: slate, paper, ink, store bought ink, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, calculators, [...]
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North Cascades
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
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Why 18th century schools can’t use blogs
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Jeff Utecht sets the record straight on the possibilities of education blogging. He writes, “if you do not bring the conversation back into the classroom, they are no different from assignments written on paper”. Time is a constant constrain in the classroom and possibly I reason why blogs are being used in limited short term [...]
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