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Kevin Chilton 57, Male
Nijmegen, Netherlands

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Internet Connection Issues in UK Schools

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The Best of Collaborative Teaching

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Kevin Chilton added the blog post 'Games that can educate: SimCity donated to OLPC project' Feb 9
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The Social Life of the Teenager and its Impact on Education

“To put the matter briefly, if secondary education is to be successful, it must successfully compete with cars and sports and social activities for the adolescents’ attention, in an open market. The adolescent is no longer a child, but will spend his energy in the ways he sees fit. It is up to the adult society to so structure secondary education that it captures this energy.”

These words were written more than 45 years ago by James S. Coleman in his study of “The Social Life of the Teenager and its Impact on Education”, published in a book called “The Adolescent Society”. They are even more valid today

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UNESCO's Virtual Laboratory Toolkit

The Virtual Laboratory Toolkit provides an extensive set of free person-to-person (P2P) communication tools (audio and video conference, scientific text chat, whiteboard, collaborative authorship, portal and mailing list management, etc.), and also basic advice on person-to-equipment (P2E) tools. The toolkit is available for download at: http://virtuallab.tu-freiberg.de/

Posted on July 24th, 2008 at 5:23pm — No Comments (Add)

Technically Speaking

Technological literacy, a broad understanding of the human-designed world and our place in it, is an essential quality for all people who live in the increasingly technology-driven 21st century. This website explains what technological literacy is, why it’s important, and what’s being done to improve it.

Posted on July 20th, 2008 at 9:57am — No Comments (Add)

The Immersive Education Initiative

The Immersive Education Initiative is an international collaboration of universities, colleges, research institutes, consortia and companies that are working together to define and develop open standards, best practices, platforms, and communities of support for virtual reality and game-based learning and training systems. Immersive Education, a Media Grid initiative, is an award-winning learning platform that combines interactive 3D graphics, commercial game and simulation technology, virtual… Continue

Posted on July 10th, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Research Methods ‘Beyond Google’

When “Google” has become a synonym for “research,” how should faculty respond? And if the answer doesn’t lie in musty books and stacks of journals, are libraries still part of the answer? The problem is near-universal for professors who discover, upon assigning research projects, that superficial searches on the Internet and facts gleaned from Wikipedia are the extent — or a significant portion — of far too many of their students’ investigations. It’s not necessarily an issue of laziness, perha… Continue

Posted on June 24th, 2008 at 5:04pm — No Comments (Add)

War of the Worlds : The Human Side of Moore's Law

"There is a technology war coming. Actually it is already here but most of us haven't yet notice. It is a war not about technology but because of technology, a war over how we as a culture embrace technology. It is a war that threatens venerable institutions and, to a certain extent, threatens what many people think of as their very way of life. It is a war that will ultimately and inevitably change us all, no going back. The early battles are being fought in our schools. And I already know who… Continue

Posted on June 18th, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments (Add)

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