Archive for the 'Wikicademy' Category

Wikicademy

Author: tom | 02 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Wikicademy

Wikipedia, open source, mash-ups, online tutors, distributed wisdom

Intriguing Ourselves to Death…

Author: tom | 03 January 2008 | 8 Comments
Categories: Flat World Education, Greek Sculpture, The New WWW, Wikicademy

a plea for Education…
What follows isn’t anything new, but will likely be all too common - yet it serves as a concrete example of why education must change and what it must address.
Over an hour ago, I thought I’d better see if any comments had been made to a recent post of mine on the [...]

“Seat time” 2.0

Author: tom | 29 December 2007 | 4 Comments
Categories: Flat World Education, Wikicademy

Reports have been surfacing about different ways students use the daily bus ride to school. One particularly interesting one comes from Arkansas where it’s reported that Sheridan Turns School Bus into Classroom. This program is a joint effort and demonstrates some smart thinking. For instance, in combination with the WiFi’d bus in [...]

The “outsourced brain”

Author: tom | 31 October 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Flat World Education, The New WWW, Web 2.0, Wikicademy

David Brooks’ Op-Ed piece “The Outsourced Brain” in the New York Times is a must read for educators. Beginning with a GPS goddess that gently steers the author in the right direction, Brooks goes on to invoke his use of calculators for math (a given), iTunes for musical selection, search engines for memory of [...]