Archive for February, 2008
Danah Boyd Interview
Danah Boyd discusses the use of the web and how it has made a difference in how people socialize. She traveled to many places in the United States and hung out with students exploring how they were using the internet. These are the conclusions she found.
Students are spending their time online in Social networks. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Assessing Educational Equity
According to Chapter 14 of Solomon, the critical factors in assessing educational equity are:
1. Social Context addresses how students are given access to and the knowledge to use the latest technology available to each school. Are schools equally giving all students equal opportunities to the same resources?
2. Economic Context addresses the equality or inequality that [...]
Silicone Ceiling
There are several ways to address the issues of the silicone ceiling that were suggested by Matwyshyn in the journal article. One thing mentioned is that 13 years of age is when the scores in computer science begin to change according to gender. Boys score higher and girls score lower. According to these results, the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Equity and NCLB
Is equity possible?
No I don’t believe it is. There will always be schools with more resources than others. Towns with better schools and so on… !
Is it desirable? Of course it is desirable however it isn’t probable. There are many obstacles and deficiencies to overcome. There are numerous inequalities including lack of resources, educators [...]
Mob Rules
Mob Rules ( The Law of Fives) At first the title made me think of the “Mafia” mob but I quickly saw that I was wrong. I was reading something very familiar. I had read this before (in the readings from EDUC685) and I recalled the story of the fishermen who changed their livelihood for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Educational equity…
Educational equity according to results from a Google search on the following site
http://www.k12.wa.us/equity is making certain that all students regardless of origin, gender, race, or special needs are given the same opportunities in education. There were other similar sites with similar statements. There were also other sites that addressed different types of equity such [...]
Literacy
What constitutes literacy?
As I read chapter 5 on literacy I began to wonder about the real meaning of literacy and if it will be possible to achieve that status in the way it used to be. The meaning of literacy has changed much the way the growth of technology has changed learning and commerce. It [...]
A bit more on the Cluetrain connection to education
It was very late when I posted the Cluetrain Manifesto and I ran out of gas before addressing the education connection. Now that I have slept a bit and reread my posting on it, I feel the need to add to it.
The educational connection would have to be the way learning has changed and [...]
The Cluetrain Manifesto
“The Cluetrain manifesto – The end of business as usual” is a book written in 1999 by 4 authors, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger. There is also a website devoted to the book and the 95 theses’ that the book refers to. The book is about the changes that were brought [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Uneven Distribution
After reading Marc Pesce’s blog post on distribution, I feel that when it comes to learners (students), uneven distribution does not pose a problem. Students are very resourceful when there is a need and when something that is important to them gets withheld or blocked they have a way of getting around it. Learners are always [...]
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