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Rhondda Powling

New Digital Bill of Rights - Stephen's Lighthouse - 0 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 15 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 15 Jun 12
     
    The two congressional representatives have unveiled a draft bill of rights for the Internet. Reps Darryl Issa and Ron Wyden unveiled their proposal at Personal Democracy Forum, and invite the Internet to edit and refine the list on Keep the Web Open.
Kerry J

What is 'competence' and how should education incorporate new technology's tools to gen... - 3 views

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shared by Kerry J on 17 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Kerry J on 17 Mar 15
     
    This paper addresses the competences needed in 21st century life especially in relation to civic participation, and the educational requirements to foster them in young people. New technologies are widely used by young people for informal social interaction, video game-playing and giving voice to their views. Incorporation of these practices into the classroom has been fairly slow, despite their manifest potential for promoting agency and civic engagement. The paper argues that this is in part due to the need for a cultural shift in education to accommodate them. Currently, many competences young people will need for the future world of interactive technology and 'bottom-up' information, communication and democracy are mainly being developed through informal practices. These competences, which include adaptability, managing ambiguity, and agency are discussed in relation to civic participation. 
Tony Searl

t r u t h o u t | Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken O... - 5 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 26 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Not only does she not have any experience in education and is totally unqualified for the job, but her background mimics the worst of elite arrogance and unaccountable power
  • For Freire, pedagogy was central to a formative culture that makes both critical consciousness and social action possible
  • pedagogy at its best is not about training in techniques and methods, nor does it involve coercion or political indoctrination. Indeed, far from a mere method or an a priori technique to be imposed on all students, education is a political and moral practice that provides the knowledge, skills and social relations that enable students to explore for themselves the possibilities of what it means to be engaged citizens, while expanding and deepening their participation in the promise of a substantive democracy
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  • ffering a way of thinking beyond the seeming naturalness or inevitability of the current state of things, challenging assumptions validated by "common sense," soaring beyond the immediate confines of one's experiences, entering into a dialogue with history and imagining a future that would not merely reproduce the present.
  • Giving students the opportunity to be problem posers and engage in a culture of questioning in the classroom foregrounds the crucial issue of who has control over the conditions of learning, and how specific modes of knowledge, identities and authority are constructed within particular sets of classroom relations.
  • Paulo strongly believed that democracy could not last without the formative culture that made it possible. Educational sites both within schools and the broader culture represented some of the most important venues through which to affirm public values, support a critical citizenry and resist those who would deny the empowering functions of teaching and learning.
  • Tony Searl on 26 Nov 10
     
    There is little interest in understanding the pedagogical foundation of higher education as a deeply civic and political project that provides the conditions for individual autonomy and takes liberation and the practice of freedom as a collective goal
John Pearce

Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government - 0 views

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shared by John Pearce on 29 Mar 09 - Cached
  • John Pearce on 29 Mar 09
     
    These fascinating Flash based maps trace the history of events and trends such as the march of democracy, and the Imperial History of the Middle East. The maps play in a flash player that can also be embedded in a blog or wiki. Another great tool for use with an IWB.
Tony Searl

http://www.forumforeducation.org/ - 4 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 25 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Tony Searl on 25 Aug 10
     
    "In conjuction with our partners in the Rethink Learning Now campaign, we have produced an ESEA Toolkit for you to use in making your voice heard around ESEA reauthorization."
Roland Gesthuizen

OpenAustralia.org: Are your Representatives and Senators working for you in Australia's... - 0 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 17 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Grace Kat on 17 Jun 08
     
    Are your Representatives working for you in Australia's Parliament?
  • Chris Betcher on 25 May 11
     
    OpenAustralia.org is a non-partisan website run by a charity, the OpenAustralia Foundation and volunteers. It aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their representatives in Parliament.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 27 May 11
     
    OpenAustralia.org is a non-partisan website run by a charity, the OpenAustralia Foundation and volunteers. It aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their representatives in Parliament.
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