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Add a note uhuh!Then we gotto focus on what else is possible instead! - Ruth Howard

Add a note uhuh!Then we gotto focus on what else is possible instead! - Ruth Howard

Australian Sustainable Seafood Guide - Ruth Howard

Executive Chef Stefanelli utilizes the area's finest locally grown ingredients (He has established a farmers market just to get the freshest ingredients and input local choice). Love this menu love the images on this site too. - Ruth Howard

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Ted Talks by subject/category for teachers. - Ruth Howard

Of those who have some interest in gaming, responses were varied as to its value in education. Sixty-five percent said it appeals to different learning styles; another 65 percent said it increases student engagement. Others said it allows for student-centered learning (47 percent), helps develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills (40 percent), helps develop creativity (39 percent), allows students to gain experience through trial and error (37 percent), and helps students visualize difficult concepts (35 percent). But perhaps the most significant trend in education technology, Evans said, is the emergence of the student as a "free agent learner": Students want more control over their own learning experiences through technology and want to define their own educational destinies and determine the direction of their learning. "This free agent learner is one that is technology-enabled, technology-empowered, and technology-engaged to be ... an important part of driving their own... - Ruth Howard

yay! - Ruth Howard

Part of the multimedia oretario theatre performance...The Blue Planet by Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke - Ruth Howard

"I cant create the future with the tools of the past...the future is ours..." - Ruth Howard

Robert Frost Road Less Travelled on textflows, beaut platform for poetry. Recommended for writers to share theirs and teachers/students/parents. - Ruth Howard

Playing and Learning with Projects You've arrived at my Pepperdine University educational technology doctoral blog. This space started off being about HCI, but has gone awry, that is, gone to where it wants to, where it needs to go. The initial Human Computer Interaction (HCI) interest has bent toward my passion, project-based learning, in real and virtual social spaces. My first in-school virtual exploration area is Quest Atlantis. QA is is an international learning project out of Indiana University. It uses a 3D environment in which younger elementary students undertake challenging tasks and solve problems, while role playing situations in which they actively help make Atlantis a better place - through missions and quests based on social commitments. - Ruth Howard

Discovery not valued: The most important things we learn we teach ourselves. This is why kids have trouble learning from their parent's experience. They need their own experiences to ponder and to learn from. We need to try things out and see how they go. This kind of learning is not valued in school because it might lead to, heaven forbid, failure, and failure is a really bad word in school. Except failure is how we learn, which is pretty much why school doesn't work. - Ruth Howard

listings of thought leaders in learning on Twitter - Ruth Howard

This past week, with limited time, I've built the website EdStimulus.org. Whatever your view is of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), we all have a vested interest in the disbursed funds being well-spent on programs that deliver long-term results. The goal of the site is to provide information and access to events, information, and discussion areas relating to the educational portion of the the funds--and hopefully to help facilitate a dialog that will promote good decision-making. While the site is assuredly simple, I think it serves as a potential example for those interested in the use of Web 2.0 and collaborative Web technologies to help promote educational dialog by rapidly building topic-specific websites using social media tools. What follows is a description of how EdStimulus.org has been constructed. I am amazed at the significant abilities currently available with free and low-cost tools to coalesce resources and discussion around specific topics. Hopefully... - Ruth Howard

Huge applications for entrepreneurial and vocational across curriculum education here. - Ruth Howard

note to self Moodle update skills. - Ruth Howard

Ive enjoyed the searches recently popping up via Feedly mini referencing Feedly and or Friendfeed. Like the (is that?) new Friendfeed interface too? - Ruth Howard

Gary Stager writes how in 1975 at junior high he learned computer programming but that same school now instructs in keyboard skills. Stager's peer and mentor Seymour Papert of MIT media Labs states that computers were originally designed for schools to teach computer science!!!! not word processing! Yeeach! Do you understand what this means? Why and who doesnt want the populace to be learned? - Ruth Howard

Project Based learning references Papert's theory of constructing knowledge. "the idea that the best way to construct knowledge, or understanding, is through the construction of something shareable, outside of a student's head. Those artifacts are commonly thought of as projects, even though the project development process is where the learning occurs. Such artifacts are evidence of learning." - Ruth Howard

Australian site under construction to develop resources and delivery of accelerated learning for indigenous and immigrant students based on an Israeli model. - Ruth Howard

Helpful when choosing collaborative technologies for classroom/work projects. - Ruth Howard

New school curriculum by game designers-systems and design based learning- academic excellence alongside real life collaborative projects,mentors and literacy support. A new learning ecology supported by The Center for Transformative Media at The New School Designed by the Institute of Play in partnership with New Visions for Public Schools. - Ruth Howard

Less time in formal classroom! David Warlick blogs "The nature of information has changed -- not in what it does and what it means, but in what it looks like, how it flows and grows, and where and whom it comes from, how we find it, what we use to find it, ... It means that there is still much that needs to be taught. The teacher and classroom, though I suggest might take up a smaller part of our students' day, has actually become far far more important. The library and librarian has become far far more important -- if they can re-image themselves to reflect a new information landscape." - Ruth Howard

Social Actions Ning Community. Heres the link to their consultancy page where non profits can learn how beat to leverage social media and community for good. - Ruth Howard

Firefox extension shows Twitter results in top of Google. Particularly useful for local search/news. - Ruth Howard

Tasmanian author/sculptor Meika Loofs Samorzewki says: Dolls, small figurines are dolls, not statues, and are meant to be handled and held. Not displayed in niches or shop windows. - Ruth Howard

Making the case for Web 2.0, Cole W. Camplese, director of education technology services at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, spoke engagingly about the opportunities for students to draw information from the Internet and bring it into classroom discussions. At least two professors in the audience, however, questioned the value of open laptops and ongoing Web searches during class. - Ruth Howard

Examples by teachers of Google Apps Education and Google Tools using Google Docs - Ruth Howard

Google apps for education and Google Tools demonstrated vids by teachers - Ruth Howard

good questions re textiles... - Ruth Howard