Life, The Universe and Everything: Reflections and Rants
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Bebo v Blackboard
Web 2.0 may hold out great promise for social networking and personal learning environments as tools to emppower student centred learning, but my first reaction to looking at Bebo this morning is that it a cross between a tabloid rag and a graffiti wall.
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Those Danish Cartoons…
The Danes have added a fresh member to what E.H.Carr would call the ‘club of historical facts’ – the Great Cartoon War of 2006. What is it all about and how will it play as history?
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Learning Contracts?
I like the article in todays Guardian by Germaine Greer criticising the plan by Oxford to force students to sign contracts and attend lectures. Greer has some points I agree with : “Lectures are a misshapen survival of medieval pedagogy, which took authority as absolute and understood the teacher’s sole duty to be that of…
