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Started this discussion. Last reply by Durff May. 1, 2007.
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Hey! Welcome to My Nightmare!
You've heard of the digital immigrants and digital natives? I'm a digitial aboriginal. I built my first computer as a junior high school science fair project about 40 years ago. It only won second prize because the math and science teachers then couldn't see the future in binary arithmetic. I've been involved computers, networks, and the applications of technology to solve informational problems almost ever since.
For those who count coup, I have a BS in Businesss Administration, an MA in Educational Technology, and a Ph.D. in Educational Technology with emphasis in instructional design, distance education, and interactive media.
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Hello!!?
Is this thing on?
It's been 14 hrs since I posted and I can't tell if anybody's been here or not.
I feel like the beginning of "Comfortably Numb" here --
Hello? Hello? Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
Posted on March 28, 2007 at 5:37am — 2 Comments
If I Want to LEARN...
Why?
Because SCHOOL is about credentials. It's not about LEARNING.
If I want to learn, I ask a friend, I read a book, I visit the web, I go to the library, I ask questions of people who might know something. I try stuff out. I fail a few times. Ok, I fail a lot of times. Eventually I figure it out and move on. I've learned something.
If I go to SCHOOL I have to apply. I have to be approved. I have to get permission. I have to b… Continue
Posted on March 27, 2007 at 3:56pm — 3 Comments
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I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this other ning network is no exception. My name is Marco Morales; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
Thanks,
Marco Morales
marcotuts@gmail.com
I am still in the initial phase of "this is amazing". I can interact with you and others here about the ideas I care deeply about.