Tellio’s InterWeb Notes 12/27/2008 (a.m.)
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21 Excellent Web Apps For College Students | Dumb Little Man
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Scholarly Journals – New Free Service Makes Keeping Up-to-Date Easy – PR.com – Annotated
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Keeping up-to-date with the scholarly literature just became much easier, thanks to a new service called ticTOCs – Journal Tables of Contents Service.
http://www.tictocs.ac.ukticTOCs is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s being published in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.
- If I get any information richer I am going to scream. This is, however, a grand addition to zotero and diigo in my dissertation work. Plus, I can keep up with scholarly work now much more readily. – post by tellio
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Turn your Classrooms into Learning Ecologies – Annotated
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Turn your classrooms into learning ecologies- learn with and from your students.
- OK, but go ahead and say it. Dump the classroom model entirely. Our students live in a jungle and I don’t mean a blackboard jungle. And get rid of the word ‘student’. And dump ‘instruction’ and ‘curriculum’ as well. It is the teachers who are the bottlenecks not the students. It won’t matter what we call them in the near future because they will be irrelevant. The classroom will never change enough to accomodate the measure of learning that is rising to meet us. Ditch it. Move on or be moved on. – post by tellio
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Time to Reboot America ~ Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes
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Thomas L. Friedman asks and answers his own question – unintentionally. He asks, “What has become of our infrastructure, which is so crucial to productivity?” He answers, “I’d like to see fewer government dollars shoveled out and more creative tax incentives to stimulate the private sector to catalyze new industries and new markets.” When was the last time you saw tax incentives produce infrastructure? Right: never. Friedman articulates the problem quite well, but the advances the tired old solutions that have been failing for the last decade and more.
Thomas L. Friedman,
New York Times, December 25, 2008.- I gotta admit to a serious bias against Frideman. He reminds me of Dennis Miller in his inveterate and intemperate use of allusion and metaphor. Both of them observe, but neither understands. I have been hearing about money being used for “human infrastructure” (teaching, nursing) but I hate that expression almost as much as I do Friedman’s ‘flat earth’. In their defense, metaphor and other tools of comparison of necessity refer back, yet conditions in the field demand that we create something nearly new. As such it will be unrecognizable by folks like Friedman and will probably come from someone outside the field. What I mean is that we won’t be able to use old words along with their baggage to create new worlds. “School”, “classroom”, “teacher”, or “student” will be terms that simply get in the way of something completely different. – post by tellio
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