http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/in-the-grand-scheme-of-things/ Learning with the Read/Write Web Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/in-the-grand-scheme-of-things/comment-page-1/#comment-1899 Jeremy Price Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:56:40 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/in-the-grand-scheme-of-things/#comment-1899 <a></a>"Hear, hear" to Tom's sentiment. It seems to me you can have your cake and eat it too. Collaborative technologies such as blogs, wikis, etc., seem ripe to be used to encourage learners to explore very real and pressing issues in the world at large -- such as how we are devastating the environment, or the atrocities that occur on a daily basis in northern Uganda, for example -- and in our own communities, and to encourage learners to develop responses to these issues. Just a thought for designing engaging technology-based (even interdisciplinary) educational activities and units, since you opened the door.... “Hear, hear” to Tom’s sentiment. It seems to me you can have your cake and eat it too. Collaborative technologies such as blogs, wikis, etc., seem ripe to be used to encourage learners to explore very real and pressing issues in the world at large — such as how we are devastating the environment, or the atrocities that occur on a daily basis in northern Uganda, for example — and in our own communities, and to encourage learners to develop responses to these issues. Just a thought for designing engaging technology-based (even interdisciplinary) educational activities and units, since you opened the door….

]]> http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/in-the-grand-scheme-of-things/comment-page-1/#comment-1898 Tom Hoffman Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:29:40 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/in-the-grand-scheme-of-things/#comment-1898 <a></a>Actually, I greatly prefer the "we need to get it together because we're destroying the planet" sermon to the "we need to get it together because the world is flat and the Chinese are coming" sermon. Actually, I greatly prefer the “we need to get it together because we’re destroying the planet” sermon to the “we need to get it together because the world is flat and the Chinese are coming” sermon.

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