November 4, 2008 – 2:27 am
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October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
Drexel Online Launches New Library and Information Science Concentrations to Increase Educational Career Options for Librarians
Drexel University Online, a pioneer in distance education, has increased its degree offerings with the addition of three new concentrations within the Master’s in Library and Information Science program: Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management, School Library Media, and Youth Services. [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
Freshmen go to school on drinking
Pennsylvania State University trustees passed a resolution requiring all incoming freshmen systemwide to take AlcoholEdu for College, an online education program about alcoholic beverages and their effects on the body. — GoErie.com, PA
Public Demand Prompts University of Minnesota to Make Online Class on Alcohol Use Available to All Parents
With tragic [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
More laws, collaboration required for online safety
Washington state’s attorney general is only half joking when he suggests that perhaps sites like Facebook and MySpace should require members to use a credit card to sign up for access as a way to prove their identity. “We need good age- and identity-verification technology so that it’s much [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
Over the past few years, many administrators have asked me how SLA has such an incredible faculty, and while I think there are many reasons, not the least of which are the colleagues that you get to work with and the edu-blogger network that has made SLA more well-known than the average high school, I [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
[Cross-posted at Leader-Talk.]
This is an extension of some thinking I was doing in this entry — Citizenship, Workforce and the Ethic of Care.
Nel Noddings writes a great deal about the ethic of care — the idea that our relationships with students should be grounded in “receptivity, relatedness, and responsiveness” — and her work has been [...]
October 12, 2008 – 12:52 pm
I’m writing this post sitting on the steps in my backyard (yay wifi!) and watching my kids play with some of the neighborhood kids. In six hours, I get on a plane to San Jose where I’ll be presenting at the Innovative Learning Conference and then it’s back on a plane so [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within.
–Leonard Cohen
The model of education from its earliest times was one of mentorship, starting with hunter-gatherers taking their children out on the hunt 100,000 years ago, all the way up to the teaching methods employed at the university [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
Photo: Galleons Lap by zenitpetersburg
[Click here to read Part One.]
So despite the impending bell, the rush to the bus, the administrative fart in the Church of Wonder with that daily detention announcement over the intercom just when we’d arrived, in our Story, at the Enchanted Place - despite all of that, the children agreed to [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
They had already guessed, all wrongly (but that was okay), how old I was when I first read the book I was sharing with them. Their guesses ranged from five to twelve. When I told them that I was in my thirties, and was reading that book as a peacekeeper in Kosovo, where I carried [...]
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