technology

Schools kill creativity

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple… »

TPACK Newsletter #4 (Aug-Sept 2009)

A new hope …


Welcome to the fourth edition of the TPACK Newsletter, now with 494 subscribers (representing a 36% increase during the last four months!), and appearing bimonthly between August and April. If you are not sure what TPACK is, please surf over to www.tpack.org  to learn more. 

Gratuitous Quote about Technology
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Maybe I could blog more …

I hope you are having a good life I will make more of an effort to blog more often. Well, I’ll try. This is for my ever faithful, devoted public…. »

Spam, Spam, Mail, Spam, and Spam

Each year, spammers generate 62 Trillion junk emails. That’s Trillion, not Billion or Million. The energy is takes to send and store those emails could power 2.4 million homes for the same year. Also, each spam mail emits 0.3 grams of CO2 (greenhouse gas) into the air. Read more… »

The relationship between facebook usage and academic performance

A recent study at Ohio state University by Aryn Karpinski found that facebook usage was associated with lower GPAs, and less time studying. This story is interesting for three reasons.

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