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Wikipedia messages make it more viable for real research

Have you used Wikipedia recently? I know a lot of people have sworn it off as junk given its lack of real peer review. However, I still use it all the time, at least as a starting point for research. It certainly has a weirdly nostalgic feel...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-11

Newsflash to Wikipedia: People lie

Anonymous democratic participation is the basis of the Wikipedia phenomenon; it is also the subject of its growing pains. An article by The New Yorker which exposed a contributor to Wikipedia to have bogus credentials has prompted the site to change some of their fundamental policies. The Associated Press reports....

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia

Blog posts 2007-03-13

Citizendium seeks to be the Wikipedia you can cite

In an effort to answer the need to have a more scholarly and definitive online encyclopedia than Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, a co-founder of that site, is about to launch Citizendium, intended to mix the collobrative nature of Wikipedia with editors and filters, reports eSchool News Sanger has recruited subject-matter...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-02-23

Wikipedia now a top site, thanks to Google

Despite university bans and limitations on its use, Wikipedia has scored in the top 10 rankings of hot Internet properties for this month, reports Tech News World. With 42.9 million unique visitors, Wikipedia earned ninth place ranking on comScores traffic watchers list of top 50 properties for the month....

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-02-22

College limits use of Wikipedia; good idea, site says

The history professors at Middlebury College in Vermont voted this month to ban the use of Wikipedia as a source for student citations in academic work, reports Inside Higher Ed The professors justified the ban by saying that that although Wikipedia is a very convenient source of information, it...

Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, Wikipedia

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Additional Resources

Macedonia rolls out 53,000 Classmate PCs

And the OLPC?Seems to be doing well as well. Uruguay is finishing its distribution of laptops this year. For more info:Spanish:http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=96&Itemid=247English translation:http://translate.google.com.mx/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ceibal.edu.uy%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Dcategory%26layout%3Dblog%26id%3D96%26Itemid%3D247&sl=es&tl=en&hl=es&ie=UTF-8Contrary to what was said in some articles in your section back in '07. The XO is doing well, it has support, it has training and...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, training and certification, Notebooks, Uruguay, Macedonia, Intel Classmate PC, Classmate, netbook, PC

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Could One Laptop Per Child be a bad thing?

Or roadsOr how about roads so farmers can get there goods to the markets cheaper? The one laptop per kid is such a scam. Why should kids get cheap laptops overs small business owners. Who would be more productive. Um track sales, write, write e-mail, do books. I am so...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Wikipedia: What's good for the goose?

Most people have probably heard the expression, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander." Really, we're talking about double standards. I had an interesting Twitter exchange last week with @maciekzielinski after I posted my rant asking, "Will Wikipedia ever be legitimate?" and found myself fairly...

Tags: Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-31

Has the UK gone too far in social media education?

Has the UK gone too far in social media education?I think it will be either too far or not enough......and they'll miss the happy medium. I think teaching how children how you use Social Media at Primary level will be a good thing, but only if the teachers accept it...

Tags: social media, social media education

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

Has the UK gone too far in social media education?

I have to share a cartoon that made its way to me last week (yes, I'm as behind in my blogging as I am in my day job, my spring yard work, and virtually every other aspect of my life) and then give a bit of thought to the story...

Tags: Education, Curriculum, Social Media, U.K., Twitter, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-03-29

K-12 textbooks in for a big change

K-12 textbooks in for a big changeWhat a radical conceptI hear that some state called "Massachusetts" has a State technology institute where the professors (who might also be "subject-matter experts") have been putting courseware on the Web using open-redistribution licensing.Be CarefulText books are better for learning from, because the source...

Tags: Text Book, textbook, K-12, K-12 textbook

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?

Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?Yes! India can do it.I think, India can do it, because of it size and manpower. They have done it for Mobile phone.India has the second largest cell phone users in the world and call charges are cheapest in the world and main thing...

Tags: Notebooks, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

Obama and Ed Tech

Obama and Ed TechNice one Chris...Handing out an Acer Aspire One connected to Wi-Fi broadband to every child is not going to solve education problems. What about inept teachers? What about poorly designed curriculums? The problem with you Chris is that you think your current fad is the ubiqutious solution...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, obama, Obama, computer

Discussion threads 2009-01-19

Obama and Ed Tech

Today, we inaugurate the first president to ever own a BlackBerry, to ever have a Twitter account, and to ever use the Internet to build and win a grassroots campaign. Obviously, hopes are high among those of us in Ed Tech for a very different sort of presidency when...

Tags: Education, School, Computer, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-19

What do we do with those classroom computers?

BusinessWeek ran a great article recently focusing on one school in San Francisco that was rethinking exactly what computers in schools meant. As the article quite aptly pointed out, Schools are enthusiastic about the technology's promise, but short of the money and trained faculty to...

Tags: Computer, Kid, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-21

Enough already with the Luddite schools

Enough already with the Luddite schoolsI think middle school is better for tech than primary.I would rather see hand written reports up to and including 4th grade. Technology is great but so far cognitive scientists have not created a device that rivals the human brain. If you don't develop all...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Recruitment & Selection, public school

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

News to know: iTunes 8 sneaky upgrade; AMD; CTIA; Text pricing

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: An inside look at Apple's sneaky iTunes 8 upgrade. Gallery Tour: Sneaky iTunes install, step by step right Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iTunes...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iPod Touch, Pricing Strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple iTunes, CTIA, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-11

Our educational system needs an overhaul (and how can Intel help?)

Fellow ZDNet blogger, Sam Diaz, wrote an interesting piece yesterday highlighting a vital message from Intel Chairman, Craig Barrett, during his keynote at the Intel Developers' Forum. Quoting both Barrett and Sam's paraphrasing, “Nations are as strong as their educational systems,” he said, noting that in...

Tags: Craig Barrett, Intel Corp., Kid, Productivity, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-20

90ò0of Americans 18-28-year-old own a PC

90ò0of Americans 18-28-year-old own a PCid sayyoure about 7% low based on this;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_YGeneration Y and technologyIn their recent book, Connecting to the Net.Generation: What Higher Education Professionals Need to Know About Today's Students, Reynol Junco and Jeanna Mastrodicasa[15] found that in a survey of 7,705 college students in the US:...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Instant messaging, Blogging, music, PC

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

When will textbook publishers get a clue?

When will textbook publishers get a clue?I buy all my books onlineI mostly use half.com, which is part of eBay. But there's also:http://www.allbookstores.com/This is an aggregator, so it searches a bunch of sites.Here's how much you can save: My "Advanced Suse Linux" book retails for $146.95 at school...

Tags: Wiki, Linux, Microsoft Office, textbook, Textbook Publishers

Discussion threads 2008-07-28