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Cooperative Learning and Wikis

Back in the 70s and 80s, the educational concept of Cooperative Learning developed and was implemented in classrooms around the world.  According to this idea, students are encouraged to work together to achieve a common goal (something akin to what we call Problem Based Learning).  The role of the teacher morphs into more of a facilitator, enabling the students to learn and understand the material on their own. Wikis…

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Added by Peter Eckstein on June 24, 2011 at 7:12am — 1 Comment

Life, Here and There

About two years ago I first discovered Second Life.  I just sort of dived in and explored.  It was interesting learning to walk, touch, sit; and really fun to fly.  I traveled hither and yon, exploring strange new worlds. After awhile I got bored and stopped visiting. Also, it got kind of weird, especially after some entity in a hospitality venue for SL newbies propositioned me.  Sort of creepy when I think about it.

Anyway, I’ve just started to visit again, partially as a result of a…

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Added by Peter Eckstein on June 22, 2011 at 4:29pm — No Comments

Seeing Is Believing

I’ve been on vacation for the past week. While we basked in the sun and surf of Florida’s west coast, I was reading a biography of the musician, Jerry Garcia. Every few pages I would come upon a reference to a song or concert and would immediately grab my smartphone to go online and look for any recordings or, even better, video of early concerts…

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Added by Peter Eckstein on June 17, 2011 at 5:37pm — No Comments

Genesis Redux

“The medium, or process, of our time – electric technology – is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life...Everything is changing…Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men [sic] communicate than by the content of the communications.” (Marshall McLuhan)

 

These prescient words were written by Marshall McLuhan in his…

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Added by Peter Eckstein on June 10, 2011 at 7:30am — No Comments

Google Docs as a Community Building Tool

Each year in our community, sixth and seventh graders from different synagogue schools converge on one site to act out shtetl life and role-play the experience of early 20th century immigration to a new land (the U.S. or Palestine).  It’s an attempt to teach history experientially.  So every year we directors of education meet to redesign the program. This year a new element in the planning was introduced:  The Cloud.



Usually we planners meet in one of our offices to discuss ideas. … Continue

Added by Peter Eckstein on June 5, 2011 at 6:32pm — No Comments

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