Whose desires? Not mine. But when Siemens speaks, I listen, and I admire the moderate tone he takes in his comments on entrepreneurial reform of ed. But I wonder if the money boys need a public whacking, as in a comment by Lisa Lane: "So it shouldn’t be surprising that teachers and students are not the focus here – they are the obstacles to creating the quality product. Besides, after over a century of public education, surely they had their chance."

And, by the way, entrepreneurs don't have a pedagogy. They are entrepreneurs, not teachers.

the testing issue is a red herring. just focus on the fable.

Brief model of literacy - with diagram!

More zen mindfulness.

Merry Xmas, Professor. Administrative costs are driving up education costs: "The rising cost of higher education. The price of a college degree has risen faster than the cost of health care. Anxiety about those costs crowds out the mental space that might be given to contemplating subjects without direct, practical applications.
The cost increase is driven not by faculty salaries, primarily, but by the rapid growth of administration, massive athletics programs, and the amenities arms race—not who has the most full-time faculty members so much as who has the most successful football team and the fanciest dorm rooms."

Comments on Brian Lamb's comments on OER at London conference. It's criminal, not to share.

Brief entry and extended discussion on DE including Walden, Phoenix, and state unis, being self-taught, the value of a degree. Anecdotal, but broad.

I'm trusting his exit strategy is better than his entrance strategy. He's not looking very far down the road - and the students will be short-changed when they enter university. "James Tracy, the headmaster of Cushing Academy, says that he sees books as an "outdated technology," and to that end, he's taken the drastic and expensive step of ridding the school's library of every single one of its books. Replacing the books will be a high tech "learning center," housing three flat screen televisions, laptops, 18 e-readers, and a coffee bar."

Meh

An outside view of ACU's distro of iphones to students and teachers based on interviews with the players. "The success of such programs depends both on the ubiquity and availability of the devices, as well as acceptance by the staff and students. The purely voluntary method of distribution and the freedom to use the device as a social and entertainment tool offered as part of the package both went a long way toward furthering the latter."

"What does that bode for our future employees? Not only will they be ready to work in the read-write web, but they will begin to dismiss as irrelevant our read-only intranets and flash-y webs."

When shopping for phyical notebooks wears you down. Parallel this with top 10 apps for education. In both cases, IMSs are given a good drumming.

Blog monitoring working methods and applications for research and scholarship.

No Blackkboard, d2l, or WebCT in sight.

A general blog on SL, but includes sidebar links to newbie and educator resources.

Blog documentation of an educator's immersion in SL. kjarrett.

SL for promotional events, part 2.

An account of setting up an hosting an event in SL, with a focus as a practice run for teaching how to stage virtual events. One aspect of SL is promotion, and one educational aspect it to teach virtual promotion. Watch for The Virtual Apprentice

Not sure what to make of HP: Is this an attempt to up the caché of SL?

"Administrators at Case Western recently built a virtual version of the campus in Second Life" for campus tours. $30k, with no evidence that the sim increased enrollment. Unis are about pedagogical innovation.

Another response to Shirky, and a consideration of the cultural importance of SL "I am pretty sure that the value of the web/net lies in asynchronous communications and that real time interactions -- whether we are talking 3d or skype -- will always repr

The Open University's entry to teen and adult grids, and support sites for SL.

More balanced than I expected, the article is generally touts "the future's so bright" but it does touch on pragmatic concerns.

ABC documentary of SL including interviews w/ the major players and support material.

Second Life's servers - which are hosted exclusively by Linden Lab - can only support between 50 and 100 avatars in one place at one time.

Videos, including Englebart's demo and old Apple promos

"It becomes a kind of vanity fair," and Fantasy playgrounds actually don't work particularly well as social networks, and Still, immersion has its whole-hearted backers. Sarah Robbins, an English instructor at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., sees

ITC library stores most of the educational resources in SL

seeing wikis and teaching with wikis as challenging the print literacy grounding of teaching. worthy of more study

critique of stock cms - and education grounded in them - as info delivery. followed by catalog of alternatives

JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF (application/pdf Object) Schools and afterschool programs must devote more attention to fostering what we call

TA and faculty blog on teaching comp.

I don’t think I care if learning objects are dead or not. My primary interest always has been, and I suspect always will be, in increasing access to educational opportunity to people who have been denied that right for any of a variety of reasons.