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TEDx Ontario Ed: reflections on being there, but not being there

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TEDx Ontario Ed: reflections on being there, but not being there

April 14, 2010 by Phil Macoun 1 Comment

All week I have been buzzing about the TEDx Ontario Ed event that I attended last Friday.  Only, I wasn’t there. I was sitting in a School Board Office in School District 69, Nanaimo, BC with a group of other interested teachers watching the event live via Livestream.  We were also connected to the live … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: motivation, technology, tedx

roots and wings

February 8, 2009 by Phil Macoun 1 Comment

Today I was telling my wife about my previous blog post on an article I was reading called Compensating for Computers.  As a social scientist and something of an expert on social learning she immediately cut to the chase with this great quote: You have to give them roots before you give them wings. This … [Read more…]

Posted in: Technology Musings Tagged: curriculum, learning, technology

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