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technology and evolution
Hi All, I’ve been pondering what technology means (or doesn’t mean) the past few days and have found it an interesting and frustrating task. Some of the dictionary definitions are pretty predictable. The World English Dictionary (vis-a-vis dictionary.com) offers: World … Continue reading
Text and Independence
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” — Dr. Seuss I love Dr. Seuss and I love Dr. Seuss quotes. 🙂 One of the … Continue reading
On technology in education
I’ve composed this under a sense of how technology is moving within the education system. Often, as has been discussed in various MET forums, there seems to be a push from ministries and administrations to incorporate current technology into teaching … Continue reading
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Text – changing communication
Others have already posted definitions and examples of various kinds of text, so I’ll come at it from a different perspective. I see text as a construct that has shifted and changed human communication in many ways. After beginning to … Continue reading
Reviewing what we know
So listen to this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Diamond_Sutra This is an exerpt from the Diamond Sutra … Continue reading
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Rita’s Introduction
Hello all, I created this image to express my belief that the impact of new technologies for writing and reading is related with spirituality. They are co-emergent and mutually interdependent. By drawing the connection educators can create educational experiences that … Continue reading
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When we were to define what we thought text was I wrote that it was a string of morphemes. I soon found this definition to be very limited. Once I thought of what it means I came up with the … Continue reading
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Technology is Text
Text is like a snowflake. Each text (be it a letter or a song or a picture) has an intricate pattern or design and its own uniqueness. We take those snowflakes and build a snowball. Then, we build a snowman. … Continue reading
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It Gets Better
OK, so I’m no Rembrandt. I sketched this turtle with my iPad using Sketchbook Pro by Autodesk. It’s my second sketch with my first being a dog that was much better. I’m not very good at drawing turtles. While I … Continue reading
Text as meaning
I brainstormed words that relate to text and put them into this Wordle. The words that resonated most closely to what text means to me are the biggest. It’s interesting that the size and shape of the text itself, as … Continue reading
