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A snippet of audio from R4's Today programme with 2 interviewees discussing whether Twitter has a future or not. One says yes, the other no.
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Opinion piece from the BBC (originally a Sunday AM POV slot) about an inspirational art teacher.
Helen and I have been trying to get to grips with an article by Jean Lave that partly talks about how learning is a social process of forming an identity within a community of practice. She discusses what makes a "great" teacher and says:
"Teachers are probably recognized as "great" when they are intensely involved in communities of practice in which their [the students'] identities are changing with respect to (other) learners through their interdependent activities." (1996: p158)
I've been reading this BBC article in the light of that.
Lave, J (1996) Teaching, as Learning, in Practice, Mind, Culture and Activity, 3:3, pp149-164
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These were the days when the curriculum was a creative guideline rather than a straightjacket and she regularly got her pupils top marks by teaching art as something dynamic, subversive and relevant to all of our lives.
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In short she was the adult we yearned to become; confident, colourful, rebellious.
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Example of storytelling using slideshow, music and voiceover, recounting the story of Mary Anning, famous for discovering many fossils in the early 1800's.
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Chronicle of HE article about the CUNY Academic Commons (also bookmarked).
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Gesture control for gaming. One of the things in the Horizon Report 2010. There's also MS's Kineckt coming out which looks a bit more elegant.
will be interesting to see how well it takes off and if it starts to affect controllers for more practical systems. The Wii did alright (despite the silly name everyone laughed at initially)
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