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Read more →Howard Rheingold, Ted Nelson & Doug Englebart at Play
This is a celebration in the season of celebration.
Read more →Should I save or should I go now?
Harvard’s Nieman Center presents some intriguing primary research digging into emerging patterns of what is saved or marked for future reading. This is one of the key Infotention skills, and the initial results point mostly to the “kinds” of writing that emerge as being “sticky.” This is a natural concern for Journalistic research. The study equates this stickiness with engagement, another Infotention component, one requiring some deeper and more pointed research. Developing
Read more →New online learning models becoming mainstream
The confluence of technology and education is starting to achieve a critical mass. At the same time, Khan Academy continues to insinuate itself into the broader discourse about online education.
Read more →Our illustrious Chief Curriculum Officer and Instructor Howard Rheingold has been invited to deliver the University of California at Berkeley Regent’s Lecture on Monday January 23, 2012 from 5 to 7 p.m at South Hall on the Berkeley Campus. Quoting Mr. Rheingold ““My career-long compulsion has been to take new media to their limits. In the field of learning, this means developing a method of teaching and learning that amplifies the affordances of online media to depart from the millennia-old model of professor-lecture-texts-tests. The first stage of this evolution was the application of online media to classroom teaching. The second stage was the transformation of my teaching because of
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