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The adequate yearly conspiracy?

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8/20/2008

Whitney Stark at Minnesota Public Radio wrote me to ask what I think about the increase in schools that fail to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under No Child Left Behind: Minnesota Public Radio News is interested in learning more about what is going on with Minnesota’s declining and low Adequate Yearly Progress results. What [...]


Social media and intercultural education

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8/6/2008

Ruth Marie Sylte tweeted: I just got an email from an intl ed colleague that made my day! I have inspired someone in the field to explore social media/networking. [elaborated here] This got me thinking. In international and intercultural education programs, most practitioners are entirely missing opportunities with social media –the blending of technology, social [...]


DML competition: Learning 2.0 is hot

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10/18/2007

The application deadline for the Digital Media and Learning Competition closed this week with an unprecedented response — over 1000 applications. From the Spotlight on DML: People think you are all a little nuts. Digital learning? What on earth can you be meaning? A lot of head-banging. Digital learning? You wade in together. Run a [...]


Planet 2.0 meets the USA

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10/4/2007

This has been a quiet blogging week due to FLACSO México‘s visit to the University of Minnesota. The visit has been very busy, and highly productive. This morning, Education Futures contributor Dr. Cristóbal Cobo (read his blog) presented his ideas at a University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies and Digital Technology Center research [...]


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Planet Web 2.0

Cristóbal Cobo writes that his book, co-authored with Hugo Pardo, “Planeta Web 2.0, ¿Inteligencia colectiva o medios fast food?” (Planet Web 2.0: Collective intelligence or fast food?) is available for download under a Creative Commons license. In this volume, Cobo and Pardo reflect on whether the Web 2.0 trend is a creative phase, based on [...]


UMN-FLACSO knowledge seminar begins tonight

Our joint UMN-FLACSO knowledge seminar will begin tonight!  (There are still a few seats available for Minnesota students — it’s not too late to register!) A growing glossary of key terms and ideas (in English and Spanish) is available at the course wiki.  More news and ideas by all participants will be posted on the [...]


Momentum building for collaborative knowledge course

Cristobal Cobo notes that people at the Argentinian Ministry of Education, Science and Technology are taking interest in our joint knowledge seminar, offered by the University of Minnesota and FLACSO Mexico. The course blog and wiki are taking shape already… For more information, click on one of the links, below:


“Building on the past” via Web 2.0

Via the marvelous Web 2.0 technology of trackbacks, I saw that Cristobal Cobo posted a link back here, along with a truly fantastic video: View This Video on Google Read Cobo’s original post… or, for my quick-and-dirty translation of his thoughts from Spanish: “Building on the past” video by Justin Cone for the Moving Images [...]


Technologies and education in Latin America

At Monday’s Horizon Forum meeting, Dr. Ursula Zurita (FLACSO Mexico) presented her research on social participation and educating for social participation in Distrito Federal and her plans for further investigation nationwide in Mexico. Dr. Cristobal Cobo (FLACSO Mexico) followed-up with a presentation and discussion on technologies and education in Latin America. Dr. Arthur Harkins, Garth [...]


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