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Dwayne Harapnuik commented on Brad Ovenell-Carter's blog post A Bicycle for the Mind"Wow! Replace the flag with something more current and switch out the blackboards with whiteboards and it looks like many classrooms of today."
Brad Ovenell-Carter commented on Brad Ovenell-Carter's blog post A Bicycle for the Mind"Here you go Dwayne, as it was in the '40s:
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Dwayne Harapnuik commented on Brad Ovenell-Carter's blog post A Bicycle for the Mind"Technology is "A Bicycle for the mind" Great metaphor (or is it an analogy)! I wouldn't mind seeing that image of your father's one-room school house from the 40's in Saskatchewan. My family settled in Alberta, Canada and my…"
Brad Ovenell-Carter commented on Brad Ovenell-Carter's blog post A Bicycle for the Mind"Hi Kenny, and thanks. Impressed you know Beuys work. I took this shot at his exhibit at the Hamburger Bahnhof while on a house swap in Berlin last summer. The previous image in my video is the one-room school house my dad attended when he was lad in…"
Kenny Jones commented on Brad Ovenell-Carter's blog post A Bicycle for the Mind"Nice image reference to the Artist Joseph Beuys at 0:44. Especially since he was all about "taking down the brick and mortar of schools" at least as they reference the "walls" that stop the cycle of learning. Also nice overall…"
Brad Ovenell-Carter posted a blog postA Bicycle for the Mind
I made this video for my ADE application on my iPhone--images found, captures and shot on phone then mixed on iMovie. Sums up my take on technology in education. See More
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- There’s a lot of hullabaloo about technology these days and let me say I am a bit old-fashioned in this regard: I like Homer and Milton; I think Greek and Latin are fine things to know; and, were it not for the squeaks, I would prefer a chalkboard to my Mac. Unless technology lets me do something I couldn’t otherwise do with a stick in the sand, I don’t see much sense it.
Despite this, I feel that the only way to make fair assessments of emerging web technologies and the way they are shaping how we teach is to get dirty with them. I moved my whole school over to Google Apps in the fall of 2009 and over the past year have led our staff and students in experiments with wikis, blogs, instant messaging, and web conferencing. A Stick in the Sand is where I blog about making emerging web technologies work in grade schools.
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A Bicycle for the Mind
I made this video for my ADE application on my iPhone--images found, captures and shot on phone then mixed on iMovie. Sums up my take on technology in… Continue
Posted on March 30, 2010 at 12:39am — 6 Comments
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- At 1:01pm on March 29, 2010,
Lyudmyla Shandruk said… - Thanks! Looking forward to the updates from TGS. I checked out the website and I find the idea amazing.
- At 12:18pm on March 29, 2010, Lyudmyla Shandruk said…
- Brad, has THINK Global School started or is it still in the preparation stage?
- At 8:35am on March 29, 2010, Dwayne Harapnuik said…
- Welcome to CIRCL
- At 10:40pm on March 28, 2010, Lyudmyla Shandruk said…
- Welcome to CIRCL!
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