Why Teach? | DMLcentral

Why Teach? | DMLcentral looks like an interesting article. Too late in the afternoon to give it the attention it deserves.

Washington leading way in open texts

I'm glad that someone is leading the way in open, online texts. Washington State has required open texts for community college classes.

Read the Newsweek article at http://education.newsweek.com/2011/01/25/who-needs-textbooks.print.html

Or follow progress on the 81 piloted courses at http://opencourselibrary.wikispaces.com/What+this+project+is.

Weblogg-ed » A New Culture of Learning

Weblogg-ed » A New Culture of Learning - Will Richardson has another great post on a new book, John Seely Brown's New Culture of Learning.

We need to re-evaluate education in a deeper way. We need to shift the idea of education from a "machine" that puts the right knowledge into the students, into an "environment" where students learn how to ask the right questions, and then find answers that work for today (and when to re-visit the questions and find better answers when needed).

Universe / by Jonathan Harris

Universe / by Jonathan Harris an interesting way of visualizing current zeitgeist - from a Ted talk.

Graphical Twitterverse

Interesting graphic at http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/3570379944/sizes/o/in/photostream/ that shows the different add-ons / extensions / ways to use twitter.

Thanks to Scott Clark at http://www.buzzmaven.com/ for the link