Archive for the 'A New 3Rs' Category

Look to Learn Launched

Author: tom | 20 April 2009 | No Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs, Tom's work

I’ve just launched a site I’ve been wanting to get onto the Web for a while.  Called “Look to Learn,” the site combines what I like to call “Real, Rich and Relevant” resources with thinking prompts.  The rationale is to help teachers and students use such activities frequently (3+ times / week) as a way [...]

Indie Film Winner shot with phones

Author: tom | 18 January 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs

This could be a great example of a new kind of knowledge. Over 1000 words captured from signs in Sydney and New York were combined with poignant music to great effect. This was both the Critics’ and People’s Choice winner.
Learning to Look Prompt: See – Feel – Do

See – what do you see?
Feel [...]

Google InQuotes & Nov 4

Author: tom | 21 October 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs, Web 2.0

One cool Google App that it would be a shame to miss over the next couple weeks is “InQuotes.”  You may have noticed a new band of quotations when searching in Google News for a person in the media buzz.  For example:

Notice that the quotation is current and you can access more quotes from the [...]

Dipity

Author: tom | 03 September 2008 | No Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs, Web 2.0

In case you haven’t tried Dipity, it’s a really cool Web 2 timelining tool. I’ve been waiting for one for a long time, but until now, the interfaces required scripting. Dipity allows for embedding images, links, movies, comments… Heaps! It also has this really slick “Flipbook” interface that imitates Apple’s Coverflow. [...]

A “Vision” of Knowledge

Author: tom | 02 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs, Flat World Education, Web 2.0

File this post under: “Intriguing ourselves to Death”
Check the cool new mashup of Google Maps, Wikipedia and László Kozma’s programming that he calls WikipediaVision. It’s a great illustration of the changing nature of “knowledge.” WikipediaVision provides relatively realtime markers for who just added content to Wikipedia from where and on what topic. Like the [...]

Getting Serious about Play

Author: tom | 19 December 2006 | No Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs, Assembly Lyin'

It seems Scotland public schools are in for an overhaul according to a recent BBC News article, School lessons to focus on play.
Schools will still use traditional methods when necessary to teach pupils to read, write and count. But the Scottish Executive also wants teachers to use play-based techniques.
Isn’t this a refreshing change?  I [...]

‘US full of Internet addicts’

Author: tom | 19 October 2006 | No Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs, The New WWW

Okay, so I can say “I told you so…” An article recently making the rounds highlights research at Stanford University that “indicated more than one in eight US residents showed at least one sign of ‘problematic Internet use.’” And I suppose it’s also no surprise that “the typical Internet addict is a single, college-educated, [...]

Daily Snapshots

Author: tom | 22 January 2006 | No Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs

A daily sampling of unique images from The Sydney Morning Herald’s award-winning photographers. These are not “what’s in the news” kinds of photos, but more artistic ones that do involve current happenings, but more in the lifestyle line than hard news. Consider using hypothetical questions with students: if you were from another world [...]

Wikipedia vs. Britannica

Author: tom | 16 January 2006 | No Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs

In its article Internet encyclopaedias go head to head, Nature magazine’s online version compared 50 entries from the websites of Wikipedia and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. They chose subjects that represented a broad range of scientific disciplines. All entries were chosen to be approximately the same length in both encyclopaedias. Each pair of entries was sent [...]