Exploring ways to enhance education with technology and innovation
Washington, DC is swarming with educators and technology lovers as the NECC 2009 conference begins. Today’s crowds should swell even more as attendees arrive in town for the official kickoff of the national conference this afternoon, capped by the opening keynote speaker, Malcom Gladwell, author of Outliers (2008), Blink (2005), and The Tipping Point (2000). [...]
Posted on June 28th, 2009 by Sharon Elin
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Consider the climate created in blogs and twitter when users blast each other’s ideas and put writers down with sneering, sarcastic snips. Negative comments and sniping tweets fuel a competitive duel of intellectual one-upmanship. It isn’t pretty.
It’s toxic.
I’m immersed in social media — facebook, twitter, plurk — and the exchange of ideas often generates lively [...]
Posted on June 13th, 2009 by Sharon Elin
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