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"Scaffolding, according to this author, "fades out" over time and enables the learner to perform a skill or task autonomously. Distributed intelligence, on the other hand, is a support system that emerges from a network of people, artifacts, and situations to support learners at any given moment."

Here are two quotes for you: Economically disadvantaged students, who often use the computer for remediation and basic skills, learn to do what the computer tells them, while more affluent students, who use it to learn programming and tool applications, learn to tell the computer what to do. Neuman, D.

Is that why more and more companies are sponsoring schools and the movement of charter schools in the US is so popular? When the Gov't and big business start controlling the message and influencing policy and laws when it comes to sharing and distribution, thats not even a slippery slope thats an avalanche.

Flipped classroom

Great concept. His idea that publishing is a higher order thinking skill even than creating and that if students are publishing products and ideas, this will demand great rigour and learning makes a great deal of sense. Highly informative and short and sweet learning video.

Sorry, I posted text into the URL line instead of the URL. Sorry! I've been trying to edit this or delete it for the past half hour with no success. I really HATE Diigo, it is not at all user-friendly.

wow that is a high tech wheel and reminded me of a PLE .

I hope you don't mind if i abscond it for my blog.