Month: January 2007

Wikiseek

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Doug Belshaw

A couple of days ago, Wikiseek was launched to an unsuspecting world. It takes the, frankly simplistic, built-in Wikipedia search to a whole new level. Tag clouds and a Google-like interface. Much better! 🙂

Articles on technology and the future of education

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Doug Belshaw

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There’s a post over a EdVentures in Technology that links to some articles relevant to a graduate course being taught this year. Quite a few of them may be relevant for my thesis (if only for context…)

The course wiki that puts all this together is at: http://edventures.pbwiki.com/

References from ‘Schools and the Changing World’

Posted on January 13, 2007 by Doug Belshaw

Seasons change
melting pot @ Flickr

Today I’m reading Schools and the Changing World: struggling toward the future by Levin and Riffel. The following are references from the book to follow up and the information in brackets is holdings at the library of the University of Durham:

Beare, H. & Boyd, W.L. (eds.) (1993) Restructuring Schools (Education, 371.207 RES)
Elmore, R. (1992) ‘Why restructuring alone won’t improve teaching’, Educational Leadership, 49, 7, pp.44-8
Eraut, M. (1991) Education and the Information Society (Education , 370.285 EDU)
Hargreaves, A. (1994) Changing Teachers, Changing Times (Education, 371.1 HAR)
Nickerson, R. & Zodhiates, P. (eds.) (1988) Technology in Education: Looking Towards 2020 (not available @ Durham)
Rudduck, J., Chaplain, R. & Wallace, G. (eds.) (1996) School Improvement: What Can Pupils Tell Us? (Education, 371.207 SCH)

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