Thinking Out Loud
Sitting at the Service Desk in Swem with a lull in the action so decided to do some googling/searching for information related to gender theory. Our next paper in 604 has to apply a theory to a problem. I decided my problem is gender and technology. How do we get/keep girls more interested in technology [...]
“Instructionism vs. constructionism looks like a split about strategies for education: two ways of thinking about the transmission of knowledge. But behind this there is a split that goes beyond the acquisition of knowledge to touch on the nature of knowledge and the nature of knowing. There is a huge difference in status between these [...]
Kafai, Y.B. & Resnick, M., eds. (1995). Constructionism in practice: Designing, Learning and Thinking in a digital world, Retrieved March 20, 2006, from http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kafai/faculty/Book_CIP_Intro.html. Do you know that tingly feeling? The one you get when seemingly disparate pieces of learning come together? I just had it…I’m reading the introduction to a book of essays on [...]
Fritts, J., Thurber, B., & Bryce-Fritts, M. (2001). Living in virtual Rome: Adventure@Cybercamp. 17th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. This project focuses on life in Ancient Rome. Students adopt characters and interact with their environment, while helping to create that environment. Just powerful. Here’s the paragraph that attempts to get at the technology: [...]
I started playing with a Wiki (http://www.simplykaren.org/wiki/index.php/LewisAndClark) for my Lewis and Clark idea. It’s different, obviously, since there is no interaction per se. You could create objects and have pages for them such as maps, compasses, animals, etc. You could also make use of lots of information and images already on the web. It’s still [...]
Here’s what I’ve learned: To run a MOO, you need two pieces: a server and a database. I easily downloaded and installed the enCore database mentioned in High Wired that is made particularly for education. I did not so easily download and install the LambdaMOO. It seems I need a yacc compiler and that is [...]
I am nothing if not persistent but LambdaMOO thus far has thwarted my efforts to install it. I’ve followed the directions but can’t seem to compile the code on my server. I keep getting an error message that the “yacc” command can’t be found (a compiler of compilers according to my husband). He reminded me [...]
Introduction Search any university library card catalog and you will find books about the “art of teaching” almost any subject from mathematics to horseback riding. That teaching is an art seems to be a commonly held notion. And, if teaching is an art, then teachers are artists, creators rather than technicians, who design learning experiences [...]
Some threads are coming together: As Judi pointed out, my thinking about civil discourse in relationship to weblogs also has a place in the world of MOOing. And while civil discourse is certainly an offline world issue as well, I think the World Wide Web has accelerated the pressure to figure out how to get [...]
I am drafting a paper on the art of teaching and decided to do some blogging so take this for what it is, ideas sloshing around in my head: 1. Most organizations like NCATE talk about teachers having knowledge, skills and dispositions. The people I read seem to suggest that the knowledge and skills part [...]