A Special Focus on Where and How Technology Can Transform Teaching and Learning Technology is changing how we live and learn and will surely transform how we educate going forward. New developments in this domain hold great promise for supporting a more efficient and purposeful educational system, for enhancing the…
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Essential Learning Outcomes
Beginning in school, and continuing at successively higher levels across their college studies, students should prepare for twenty-first-century challenges by gaining: Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World Through study in the sciences and mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages, and the arts Focused by engagement with big…
SMS acknowledgment messages and the iPhone
I’ve always asked myself why I could not get those acknowledgment messages when sending an SMS on my iPhone… It’s so nice to know that an SMS has gotten through to someone, even if that doesn’t mean they’ve really read the message. And this function seemed not to be available…
Humans prefer cockiness to expertise – life – 10 June 2009 – New Scientist
via newscientist.com “Moore argues that in competitive situations, this can drive those offering advice to increasingly exaggerate how sure they are. And it spells bad news for scientists who try to be honest about gaps in their knowledge.” (Aldhous, 2009, para. 2) Maybe this explains why pre-service teachers and educational…
ShareThis – cool plugin for WordPress
I’ve just added another cool plugin, ShareThis, which automatically adds a button to each and every post (and page) of my wordpress site that allows my readers to share my blog entries which their friends on other communication and exchange plateforms.
Importing from posterous.com to wordpress
Does anybody have an idea (or two) on how I could import all my posterous posts into my newly installed wordpress cms? I really like to have thinks in one place, even though they come from different tools… like automatically linking in my twitter.com tweets or embedding my delicious.com bookmarks.…
Hello world!
Welcome to my all new webpage. I’m starting to use a wordpress blog system as a hub for all my digital thoughts, impressions, writtings, bookmarks, bookreviews, paper recommendations and so on.
New Toyota Aygo Music
This is a picture of my new Toyota Aygo Music car, with multimode transmission. It’s really a joy driving with the automatic transmission and it’s really easy to park this vehicle. For further details, see the www.aygo.lu page here: http://www.aygo.lu/index_5_details.html It’s been rated 29/100 cars in an independent “what green…