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digital applications for each category of remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating are suggested.

the aim of the course is not to teach these digital applications

this was not true--the materials handed out in class and on the wiki were different--a point they realized when they received below-passing scores the final test)

this approach is fraught with many hiccups.

Students seem less likely to engage in independent learning related to a course outside of class and spend a very limited amount of time in preparation for classes.

no wireless,

She cites one study in which peer grading and self grading closely correlate with teacher grading.

as discussed in a previous post

No grades! For the first time in his life, he felt, he could devote his full attention to learning rather than wasting time and energy, as he put it, on meeting the expectations of his professors.

Other times, however, and before I get into the groove, I’m easily distracted. Email, facebook messages, ongoing projects such as updating my online photo portfolio tend to break my concentration and lead me on tangents which are time-consuming to return to the task at hand. Sometimes I never make it back.

My aunt sent me the rules: no last names, girls must correspond with girls, and boys with boys; under no circumstances would the students be allowed to exchange personal email addresses.

“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows.”