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Monthly Archives September 2005

New Kids On the Blog

New Kids On The Blog. Not my cute title this time – this is the heading for an NEA piece on K-12 blogging. This is an introductory level description of blogging, but the examples are worth a look.

Posted 29 September 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

$100 Laptop

Months ago, I commented on the plans of Nicholas Negroponte (MIT) to develop a $100 laptop (link). CNET is now carrying an update on that story. It’s an education project, not a laptop project. If we can make education better–particularly primary and secondary schools–it will be a better world. By the way, if you visit [...]

Posted 29 September 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Makin’ it real

This is really a continuation of yesterday’s post regarding “real” experiences for children. The “contra” example addressed in that post concerned the position that children need more opportunities to explore their own environment (outdoor environment in Dr. Monke’s example) and the damage that would be done by substituting virtual for real experiences. Rather than promoting [...]

Posted 28 September 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Another perspective

I have commented previously on the curious, but contradictory perspectives of me and my “next farm” childhood friend (Lowell Monke). Lowell and I differ in our opinions of the potential of technology to help young children process their life experiences. Lowell, it seems, is a persuasive writer and I keep running across his work (Orion [...]

Posted 27 September 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (2) °

Gender and Interest in Technology

Those of us promoting the integration of technology become concerned when individuals are unable or unwilling to make use of technology because we believe technology supports student learning. Any concern I had that gender differences were responsible for such inequities have diminished over the years I have followed such issues. I am aware of large [...]

Posted 27 September 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

CSS

Cindy is always trying to help me out. She monitors a huge number of blogs via RSS and continually sends me things she wants me to write about. In the inbox today, I found “The Ten Best Resources for CSS“. I suppose it is time for me to spend some time bring a more “mature” [...]

Posted 25 September 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Parent Oversight Responsibility?

Washington Post writer Brian Krebs has a recent blog post addressing the issue of parent responsibility for their children’s net behavior. Take the time to read the reader responses to his post. If you thought your position on the issue of parental responsibility was “obvious”, the diversity of positions people take should convince not everyone [...]

Posted 22 September 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °