next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). Related post.
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (Polynesian Voyaging Society and Georganne Nordstrom, "Nainoa Thompson: In Search of History," Horizons, 1999).
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in Transforming Learning Through Technology: Policy Roadmaps for the Nation's Governors, Milken Family Foundation, 1999).
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's "The Future of School," transcripts of a late-1980s Sao Paulo, Brazil, TV broadcast).
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (Democracy and Education, Macmillan, NY, 1916).
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Canyon College is on Blogger. Click on the image below to see how it’s making use of this free technology to advertise its degree programs. The major advantage of blogs over standard webpages is ease of development. Anyone can quickly learn to post in blogs. If you can do email, you can do blogs. No [...]
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[UPDATE 9.24.08 - WARNING: A USER IS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH IMACROS. SEE COMMENTS.] Here’s a handy web tool that I can’t live without — iMacros for Firefox. I’m not sure if there are versions for other browsers. [See Tim's comment re the IE version!] It’s like bookmarks or favorites, only smarter. Click on a site [...]
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Many of our colleagues are under the impression that blogs are no more than lightweight soapboxes for exhibitionists who want to expose the minutest intimate details about their boring lives. Far from it. Blogs have come a long way. In the hands of professionals, they’re pushing traditional webpages into the virtual slow lane and hurtling [...]
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Here’s one of those great publications that should be freely available to everyone — and it it is. BUT, you’ll have to jump through so many hoops that you’ll read it with a distinctly bitter taste in your mouth. For one thing, you can’t review it before deciding to go through the trouble of registering [...]
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Colgate Alumni Association Goes Blogs
Colgate University alumni association’s web magazine is a blog. Instead of simply reporting news, it allows readers to post comments and, thus, actively participate in the newsmaking. This is the kind of Web 2.0 interactivity that attracts graduates who are at home in online social networks. (Click on the photos to link to the source [...]
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