Education in Second Life

Blabberize It!

In a Wordle...

The People With the Bronze Axes Will Kill You

First Scribbles

I've created this blog to talk about educational issues: those that exist now and those I believe we'll encounter in the near future. I guess I chose the blog title because it obviously alludes to that fundamental piece of technology still used in our traditional classrooms, but it's also a play on words--"chalk bored"--a dissatisfaction with the status quo (not the "teaching profession," which I care very much about!). This forum is an open invitation for any educators to comment on or to discuss what they are passionate about: learning, collaborating, and exploring. Welcome.

Time Magazine Person of the Year: You!

E-Learning: Do We Need a Factory University to Help Us Learn?

E-learning 2.0 By Stephen Downes, National Research Council of Canada

"E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea—the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven—to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities.
And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0." (excerpt)

A fantastic read that discusses the most democratic, connected, and engaged process of learning that has become not a "technical revolution, but a social one."

Here's the link:

http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=29-1