Joe LaFitte (topsailpirate)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

Technology Education Teacher in Carbonear Newfoundland

Member since Aug 26, 2008, follows 6 people, 5 public groups, 1213 public bookmarks (1251 total).

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Successfully Grow Your Healthy Xocai Chocolate Business on 2009-07-28
training xocai chocolate on 2009-07-14
GolfNL Flying Foursome on 2009-07-13
http--www.cadets.net-atl-transport-CadetsCourseLoadedUnitCO.asp on 2009-07-02
Moving Entire Drupal Site with Databases | drupal.org on 2009-07-02
Education Week's Digital Directions: Making the Case for Mobile Computing on 2009-07-02
- - Joe LaFitte on 2009-07-02
    
    What needs to change is the nature of the teaching and learning that is going on in our classrooms. If all we are doing is rote memorization and recall then yes I can see why the fear of devices that allow communication among students. However if we give them real world problems to solve then collaboration and cooperation through communication ie. use of digital devices will enhance the learning experience and prepare students for the real world.
- And many teachers have spoken out on blogs and in newspaper opinion pieces about how students’ unauthorized use of cellphones in school has undermined learning.
The Telegram - St. John’s, NL: Lifestyles | The Tely GoGuide on 2009-04-20
http://toshmath.wordpress.com/ on 2009-03-12
An Introduction to Connective Knowledge ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes on 2009-02-25
- our understanding of the existence of connections, and the nature of the networks they form, is something we bring to the table, an interpretation of what we think is salient.
  - Joe LaFitte on 2009-02-25
    
    So is this what they are getting at when they tslk about constructivism and constructed knowledge?
- constructed'
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- - we have little need to count sheep,
    Joe LaFitte on 2009-02-25
    
    no, not unless we are the shepard in charge of the flock. Sorry couldn't resist.
  - it is only your most active and your most consistent thoughts that intrude on your consciousness, and it is through the lens of those thoughts that you interpret phenomena
    Joe LaFitte on 2009-02-25
    
    Thoughts are the filters that allow us to make sense of the world amid a sea of stimula.
Distance education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 2009-02-18
- - Joe LaFitte on 2009-07-01
    
    Technology makes possible for the learner and the instructor or colearners to be in separate locations and times and yet learn. This also assumes that the knowledge is constructed and not proprietary and held tightly but rather widely distributed.
- Rather than attending courses in person,

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