Blurts

Will grants be available to write textbooks?

Just so we are clear – this hardly violates my argument that there must be compensation for content production.

FlickRoom is an Adobe Air application that connects to your flickr account. The product is still in beta and I encountered a few glitches while exploring. The idea appears to be to create a better interface available in a desktop app. This product is worth watching if you make heavy use of Flickr.

What is this gibberish? This is not a logic issue. No need for Ps, Qs, etc. This is a research question. Does the existing knowledge of the reader matter when attempting to comprehend? I am not certain what Downes is suggesting. I just do not want people to be misled or confused. What a reader knows has a tremendous influence on comprehension – more important in some cases than reading skill.

Here is a reference – Recht, D. & Leslie, L. (1988) Effect of prior knowledge on good and poor readers’ memory of text. JEdP, 80, 16-20. The tite – and the data – say it all.

Access presentations (in Adobe Connect) and virtual exhibits.

David Warlick asks this question proposing that reform is unlikely because resources are selected by teachers and schools rather than by students.

I wonder. I think he is probably wrong even when inferring something about student use of technology. The challenge I think we face is to get students to reconceptualize technology as a tool for learning rather than entertainment. I am not convinced these are the same things and many future educators my wife and I work with seemed puzzled when we ask about applying tools/services students are familiar with to unfamiliar applications.

Sometimes a game is just a game and a tweet is just a short description of what you had for breakfast. (M. Grabe)

Cindy is doing some work in Russia and when she has time and access is posting some material to her Eyes Wide Open blog. She says uploading larger files is an issue so more pictures will likely be added at a later date.