Hello David,
I am puzzled about the sample. I apologize for not having read the
whole report yet and plan to do so, but thought that I would raise a
question to those who are monitoring this report and similar ones.
You indicate that the sample covered 16 years and up, with
non-English speak
A growing body of literature argues that, in Steven Jones' words, EVERYTHING
BAD IS GOOD FOR US. Television is good for us: makes us smarter. James Paul
Gee studies WHAT VIDEO GAMES HAVE TO TEACH US ABOUT LEARNING AND LITERACY,
and concludes that they have a lot to teach us.
And yet...
And yet ther
I like what Michael says about the challenge of making computers useful
in education.
I was a primary school teacher in the UK when computers were first
introduced into schools here, and I knew the good and bad first hand.
There was good, which deserved to be publicised, but there was also bad
Hi All,
Maybe it isn't the technology that is causing a decline in literacy
skills development but a dearth and lack of support for library services
in schools not only in the US but around the world. Kids learn to read
using concrete objects first (to do with the nature of learning to read)
and sc
Tom Brough wrote:
> Executive Director wrote:
>
>> We scrap anything below a PII 300.
>>
>>
> What a waste please use them as LTSP clients in Schools, all you
> need is one very high spec server, and a 100Mbps network switch and
> you could run up to 40 of these from one server. The only thing
hi everyone -
it looks like rhode island is going to be the first state to have
border to border wireless internet.
http://muniwireless.com/applications/952
- phil
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At 12:41 PM 12/18/2005 -0800, you wrote:
An article in this Sunday's New York Times by David Carr, a new owner of a
video iPod, seems to confirm thehy ypothesis that those who own the newest
digital technologies tend to move away from the reading of complex materials
that develops and sharpens th
Then there's the example of the province of Ontario's attempt to
establish an educational computer in the mid-1980's, the commercial
platforms of the time being seen to be unacceptable for various reasons.
Called the ICON, or, not unaffectionately, the "bionic beaver", the
provincial government
Colleagues,
The main point of the NAAL study (and the NALS study a decade
earlier) , obscured in much of the discussion here so far, is that
13% of American adults (30 million people) are at a Below Basic
literacy level, and another 29% (an additional 63 million people) are
at a Basic lev
hi everyone -
one of the neat things about using the free sitemeter.com web service
is that you can check the general identity of the people visiting your
web site.
for example, on my Digital Divide Network profile web page, i've been
getting a bunch of visits from people who work at goog
David,
The finding that you underline-the large scale illiteracy in the United
States-is a problem that has been with us for a long time.
Perhaps "the main point" of the NAAL study differs for different interests.
The main point for a group such as DDN, devoted as it is to expanding the
use of t
Hi Steve
Actually, Marc has a lot more to say if you google his several web sites.
Never-the-less, your point is well made. The question that one must ask, of
course, is whether the current print literacy has been driven off the deep
end by scholars dancing on the heads of pins. One routinely he
Alex Kuskis says:
<>
If an "educational bureaucrat"-presumably a school principal or a university
leader or the head of an educational regulatory agency-wanted to bring to
his school or college or educational network a practitioner and a set of
practices that have proven their worth, where wou
Dear Pamela and Michael and All,
It would be great to be involved with the Nigeria work which, from this
post, looks lively and well received. Is TT also an online adventure, or
might it become so? *Respectful Interfaces* will be very interested.
As to less cordial contexts , alas and alack, man
Hello Steve,
On Dec 19, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Dr. Steve Eskow wrote:
The finding that you underline-the large scale illiteracy in the
United
States-is a problem that has been with us for a long time.
Perhaps "the main point" of the NAAL study differs for different
interests.
The main point
Steve and others who wonder if computers make a difference in
instruction in U.S. K-12 schools,
Take a look at this meta-study of 59 computer-assisted instruction
(CAI) reports. http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/5/cu10.html It
indicates that:
* The use of CAI as a supplement to convention
Hi - it's a bit late, but you can still log on and contribute tomorrow.
ONLINE DISCUSSION
Annamalai University, one of the top ranking Universities in India, is
organizing a Conference on "Gender Issues in E-Society" during
December 19-20, 2005 at Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar,
Chidambara
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