Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT. © 2004 Brian Lamb EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 39, no. 5 (September/October 2004): 36–48. Brian Lamb Brian Lamb is a project coordinator with the Office of Learning Technology at The University of British Columbia, where he grooves on tools that are fast, cheap, and out of control. Comments on this article can be sent to the author at brian.lamb@ubc.ca. The Way It Was Meant To Be Inventing the World Wide Web involved my growing realization that there was a power in arranging ideas in an unconstrained, weblike way. —Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web Remember when the Internet was about opening up access to information and breaking down the barriers between content creators and content consumers?
In 1999, the World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee looked back on the previous decade and lamented: "I wanted the Web to be what I call an interactive space where everybody can edit. The Standard Wiki Overview —Charles Mingus It’s risky to talk about wikis as if they’re all the same. Why Wiki? —Henrik Ibsen. Rheingold.com. Home - Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Teacher gleans federal kudos for bookless classroom. View 2 photos » Jerry Mangus, a 5th and 6th-grade math teacher at Plymouth Elementary School in Taylorsville, received the No Child Left Behind Act Maerican Star of Teaching Award on November 2, 2005. Laura Seitz, Deseret Morning News TAYLORSVILLE — Jerry Mangus' textbook-less teaching has dazzled the U.S. Department of Education. Mangus, who teaches fifth- and sixth-grade math at Plymouth Elementary, uses only computers to teach fractions and other numerical concepts to kids.
He's built computer labs in his school, each of his students has his or her own machine, and their test scores have leaped. For his efforts, the federal education department on Wednesday bestowed Mangus with its No Child Left Behind Act American Star of Teaching Award. "He's someone who has gone far and above," said Carolyn Snowbarger, director of the department's Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative, who presented the award.
The award comes with a plaque signed by U.S. "This is an amazing pat on the back," Mangus said. College of Education :: University of Texas at Austin. Quarterly | Volume 28 Number 1 2005. TIP: The Theories.