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Ditto Technology: Implications for Learning
Humans as copiers Much can happen at a school copier: plans made, gossip spread, discussions had, meetings set. Photocopiers are unique social junctions within schools, and important academic intersects between teachers and students. At the least, copying technologies offer functional … Continue reading
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The Origins of Silent Reading and its Impact on Education
It is hard to think of a world where silent reading did not exist, at least in a westernized world. To the literate person silent reading happens naturally; however, there was time when reading was only done orally. Silent reading … Continue reading
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Penny Papers: innovation & social change
Here is a link to the wiki I created on the penny papers. My focus is on the reciprocity of technology and social change. Emphasis is on Benjamin Day’s The Sun which is regarded as the first penny paper of … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century, Benjamin Day, Christensen, disruptive technology, Innis, literacy, media, newspaper, penny papers, printing press, readership, technology
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The History and Future of the Chalkboard
Tara Avenia (Avenia, 2012). [youtube]http://youtu.be/_XngtsmH9FU[/youtube] (Avenia, 2012) “Among the Greatest Benefactors of Mankind” A close look into the history of educational technology will reveal that an invention from over two hundred years ago remains arguably the most influential technological innovation … Continue reading
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Tagged Chalkboard, communication, education, text technology, writing
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The Remediation of Ebenezer Scrooge: A Christmas Carol in Print and on Screen
By Milena Brunetta and Kyle Stooshnov In the early 1840’s, there was a convergence of events happening in England to produce a masterpiece that has never been out of print since first being published in 1843. Since this time, Charles … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas Carol, Dickens, film adaptations, photography, public reading, Shakespeare
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Talking Books
We’d like to invite all of you to take a look at our ETEC540TalkingBooks research wiki at https://etec540talkingbooks.wikispaces.com/. Due to the audio nature of our research topic, we have also created this podcast, which sums up the major points of our … Continue reading
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Oracle Bones and the Development of Writing in China
Introduction The development of written Chinese has a long history but remains the only ancient writing systems that have never been converted into an alphabetic system (Hessler, 2004). To this day it remains a logographic system, where each word unit … Continue reading
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A New System, a Textbook and a Sledgehammer to Conformity!
The rise of education in Canada is highly connected with its societal changes, economic needs and political agendas of the time. In the 17th century, children were educated through apprenticeship training. Skills from the family were passed down from one … Continue reading
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The printing press and religion: A study in reciprocity
Introduction Impelled by “social, economic and political demands” (Feather, 1986, p. 16), Johannes Gutenburg adapted existing technology (Jennett, 1958) to invent the moveable type printing press, transforming the way books were produced. By the beginning of the sixteenth century, printing … Continue reading
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The Invention of the Science Textbook
The Invention of the Science Textbook What is a Textbook? Textbooks are an educational tool that became popular after the printing press was invented in the 15th century. A textbook is an organization of knowledge used to study a particular … Continue reading
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