E-EDUCATION
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Call me a skeptic, but the idea of having random people from around the Web collaborating in the creation of e-learning content for accredited online degree programs seems absurd.
The Future of E-Learning is Crowdsourcing | Online Universities
Please Don't Mark It Wrong - How Our Schools Raise Children Afraid to Fail
Another child stands by me asking for my help, 5 seconds after the assignment has been given, "But I just don't get it, Mrs.
This year I was asked to mentor a new teacher in our building and although I willingly accepted part of me trembled just a little bit with fear. See being a mentor implies that you know what you are doing and since I keep changing what it is I am doing, I don't know if I fall into that category. However, I also knew that I wouldn't be a mentor to a brand new impressionable teacher but rather to someone who actually has a year more teaching experience than I do.
Blogging through the Fourth Dimension
But the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found.
At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait - NYTimes.com
s Roundtable panelists see bold new horizons, old problems in redefining education
Technology will open up unimaginable new horizons in education – but don't underestimate the power of people.
Twitter in the Classroom - Web 2.0 Primer for Newbies
What is Twitter ? Twitter is 140 character miniblog that answers the question "What are you doing?". Each post is known as a tweet and users 'follow' the tweets of their network.Khan Academy
Matrices, vectors, vector spaces, transformations. Covers all topics in a first year college linear algebra course. This is an advanced course normally taken by science or engineering majors after taking at least two semesters of calculus (although calculus really isn't a prereq) so don't confuse this with regular high school algebra.