Tom Waterson's List: Webliography

This brilliant podcast would serve as a perfect model for completing non-traditional research projects. Specifically, I recommend the episodes on race and choice.

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Funny and disturbing article on "Freedom", a free download developed by PhD student that allows users to force themselves to disconnect from the internet for an amount of time of their choosing. Traister ruminates how staying connected negatively affects our productivity. Luddites of the world unit.

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One of my all time favorite Ted talks from Sir Ken Robinson. Argues that the ed system needs to not only value creative endeavours, but make fostering creativity fundamental goal of the curriculum.

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Chris Lehman is the principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia - basically my dream school to work at. This site is his blog; he will challenge you as an educator, and he always seems ahead of the curve in terms of big ideas and practical applications of tech.

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Another incredibly practical, easy to follow wiki from Jon Orech on digital storytelling. Lots of great, easy to follow instructions and examples.

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This wiki is based on the most useful / practical presentation I attended at the ICE conference. Jon Orech lays out many of the various issues and tools associated researching / information gethering on the web. Lots of great articles and easy to follow instructions.

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Watch the trailer for this documentary. These kids force us to question some basic assumptions we might have about the nature of knowledge and learning. My initial reaction was that this was a hippy school with its steeple stuck in the clouds, but after watching the trailer I feel angry what my own educational experience neglected and guilty for what I'm denying my students.

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I want to try this project - or at least a version of it. Seems to be ripe with possibilities for incorporating a multitude of 2.0 tools (audacity, voicethread) and hardware (MP3 players, cell phones, etc.)

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I discovered this site from the ICE conference and started clicking on several of the sites with my son (age 6). Most of them have been successful, engaging experiences for him. A few are are intended for elementary instructors.

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A four part (four hour) podcast on the future. Solid in-depth interviews with some famous and some obscure "experts". The first part on computers looks at Negroponte's laptop program in Africa, mash-ups, and the future of robotics.

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Nicholas Negroponte future podcast Girl Talk on 2009-04-08

Decent ERIC article on the use of voice recognition software for students with learning disabilities. I have felt for some time that as the software improves with ease of use and accuracy, more and more students may choose to compose their traditional academic essays using VRS.

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An overview of siftables, dominoe-sized mini-computers which interact with each other. The idea seems ripe for instructional use. I actually had my students practice persuasion by presenting practical applications (and a marketing plan) for them.

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Decent blog from author of "Grown Up Digital". You have to search some for posts related to education, learning, and ed tech, but lots here for gaining a global, macro perspective on Web 2.0 / online collaborative tools.

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My department is considering using this software - primarily for its ability to ensure originality in compositions, but I'm also fascinated how it can be used to track progress, supply paperless feedback, and nurture collaboration.

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Very cool site which allows you to upload data, text, spreadsheets, stats, etc. and visually present them in a new and different way - a way which "democratizes" data analysis so it is more social and collaborative in nature. The result allows us to detect new patterns in the information. It can be a way to jumpstart discussion and insight.

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This issue is a bit of an obsession of mine -- but this is one of the best (and most concise) articles about the potential cultural and educational consequences of replacing books with e readers like the kindle.

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To mix cliches, the people who contribute to this blog seem ahead of the curve in terms of what's coming down the pipeline for different uses and applications of a wide variety of technologies (data visualization, media art, environmentally friendly tech, toys and learning, entrepreneurship, etc.)

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Oxford professor of synaptic pharmacology (?!) argues that facebook and social networking sites infantilizes the brain, leaving us with short attention spans, less empathy, and a "shaky sense of identity". Listen to the audio interview as well.

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Watch any of the videos in this section of Ted talks and you will feel the rising tide of the coming revolution in education. Brilliant people talking about how we learn and how we should teach.

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Great (somewhat satirical) article on the future of long form literacy.

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