Mau Buchler's Blog (8)

Lately, there's been a lot of talk about whether the internet (or our use of it) is making us stupid. If you haven't already, you can read the text that started the controversy here.



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Conferences, learning networks, professional development sessions, edchats, etc... give us something to think about, but I learn better by getting practical.



How?



1. Put your money where your mouth is. Don't just talk about online education. There are heaps of free, easy to-use, software out there. Make a tech-lesson, test it,… Continue

Online education can present itself in many ways, and shouldn't necessarily be a virtual incarnation…

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Grammar.



Many shudder at the mere mention of the word.



Personally, I like it.



It's powerful.



The way people speak is the way they think.



The way they choose to order their thoughts, the way they construct their ideas in sentences... personally, I find it a trip.



But, that's just me.



Most of the other 6 billion humanoids, that share this orbiting rock with me,… Continue

An interwebz mate asked me for my thoughts on video games and education.



More specifically, he wanted to know whether video games really work in the classroom, from a pedagogical point of view. I responded very pedagogically that… Continue

A friend, who's roaming the planet, updated her status on FB mentioning how good it was to have time to research all those things she'd always wondered about... using Wikipedia.



Almost immediately, another friend, who's a teacher, felt the need to warn her that all that knowledge she was gleefully absorbing was probably not trustworthy, because... you know... it's wikipedia... and stuff... ya know?



No?



Ok, in a run-on sentence: Wikipedia is an open-source… Continue