Category Archives: Internet

Middle school teacher turns classroom into a RPG

Richard Incorvia is a teacher at the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment’s middle school who likes video games. He decided to turn his class into a role-playing-game. I’ll leave it up to him to explain as he does … Continue reading

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Exploring educational issues in future contexts: Michael A. Burstein’s “TeleAbsence”

I recently posted a request here on education4site.org and other places for examples of how education/classrooms/schools have been portrayed in science fiction literature, movies, etc. I got some great responses and have included them in a comment to my original … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – “Borderless society: The ‘new’ work and education”

On the Horizon, a journal focused on the future of learning and work, has issued a call for papers for a special issue on “Borderless society: The ‘new’ work and education”. The special issue will be edited by Dr. John … Continue reading

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Education on Air: Google hosts free educational technology conference on Google+

Is this finally a reason for educators to join Google+ (or get active – I joined long ago but don’t use it)? Click here to read more about Googles Education on Air conference on Google+.

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“We, the web kids…”

Today’s youth have some very interesting things to say. Who’s listening? Piotr Czerski says: We, the Web kids; we, who have grown up with the Internet and on the Internet, are a generation who meet the criteria for the term … Continue reading

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Technology comes and technology goes: Overlooked lessons of technology abandonment

Sometimes it makes no sense to us why certain technologies take hold when they do and even less sense when we learn that “new” technologies turn out to be rediscovered “old” technologies. Consider cement, perhaps one of the best known … Continue reading

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