Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Technology redefines talents

  Published: July 20, 2007, 9:57 am

  Tags: Blc07, Communication Tools, Digital Divide, Socialisation, Yong Zhao, Assessment, Blc07, China, Economy, Future, Globalisation, Globalization, Mcdonalds, Starbucks

  High Definition television is great, an advancement in technology that makes multimedia seem even more real. But it's also redefining who is going to be a television star, as some personalities become unusable when every pore can be seen - hi def becomes dicey. The industrial revolution made Herbert Spencer in 1859 design an American school

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• Keeping education moving in a war zone

  Published: July 20, 2007, 9:38 am

  Tags: Blc07, Digital Divide, Glowscotland, Blc07, Glowscotland, Israel

  Har V'Gai school is set in the midst of the border with Lebanon, and owned by 12 villages. 1200 students attend, half from rural settings and half from the cities. Despite learning in a long-term, protracted period of crisis learning has continued to flourish. Dr James Backer explains how. The Israeli youth is an incredibly connected one, with

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• Marco Torres @ BLC: Products of passion

  Published: July 19, 2007, 2:46 pm

  Tags: Blc07, Communication Tools, Creativity, Digital Divide, Digital Image, Digital Video Animation, Marco Torres, San Fernando, Blc07

  Marco teaches in a school with 5000 students, with 40% staff turnover in two years in San Fernando, and captures his students' minds with multimedia to get them thinking about storytelling, telling their stories, the stories that are important to them, and studying the science of decision-making. Their films are incredible. Communication:A two

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• UK and Irish schools need to educate, not ban, now

  Published: August 13, 2007, 4:42 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Ltsfutures, Rss, Safety, Security, Socialisation, Edubuzz, Digital Literacy, Internet Safety, Bebo, Facebook, Literacy, Safety

  The need for schools in the UK and Ireland to educate children on what self-publishing means rather simply than ban the tools, has never been higher, as Bebo are on the verge of opening up their platform to developers. By following Facebook's lead in allowing developers to create their own applications to work within the teen social network,

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• UK and Irish schools need to educate, not ban, now

  Published: August 13, 2007, 2:47 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Ltsfutures, Rss, Safety, Security, Socialisation, Edubuzz, Digital Literacy, Internet Safety, Bebo, Facebook, Literacy, Safety

  The need for schools in the UK and Ireland to educate children on what self-publishing means rather simply than ban the tools, has never been higher, as Bebo are on the verge of opening up their platform to developers. By following Facebook's lead in allowing developers to create their own applications to work within the teen social network, Bebo

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• The cult of the amateur and how internet changes our culture

  Published: September 4, 2007, 6:12 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Digital Divide, Socialisation, Weblogs, Andrew Keen, Dave Weinberger, Mick Fealty, Slugger O Toole, You Yours, Bbc, Radio 4

  folks, is the real digital divide. (Oh, sod it. Go and read Dave Weinberger for a much more, well, expert argument around the Cult Of The Amateur.)

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• Things that unsettle me: my music collection seems a little on the negative side. [The World's Fair]

  Published: September 5, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: The Art Science Non Divide Building

  The other night I had the privilege to check out Crowded House at a smallish venue. It was great - I highly recommend any serious music lover to check out Neil Finn and the boys. They are really one of the best live acts around, and for pure melodic prowess, Neil is definitely one of the best around. Anyway, a couple of their songs had

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• Across the Vick Divide: The Chasm Is Larger Than Ever

  Published: September 26, 2007, 12:40 am

  Tags: Across The Vick Divide, Chuck Smith, Espn, Hsus, John Goodwin, Michael Vick, Nfl, Neal Boortz, Racism, Selena Roberts, Terrence Mathis, Terrence Moore

  “Across the Vick Divide.” Yesterday, or more accurately, this morning, I wrote the following: The guests will provide a gawking television audience with overblown depictions of Vick in a sure attempt to reduce him to a thing lower on the evolutionary tree than any Simian primate. Their praise of NFL commissioner Roger

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• We can't teach the new literacies soon enough

  Published: September 26, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Socialisation, Bebo, Digital Literacy, Facebook, Myspace, Tennis

  Cross-posted at ConnectedLive. This morning's news reports tell us enough is enough. If a pair of Britain's young sporting hopefuls can lose all their funding in one fell swoop after doing what millions of other kids do on a daily basis, then what are the consequences for our kids when they reach the world of 'professionalism' too? The

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• Robots playing the game of "Operation." [The World's Fair]

  Published: October 10, 2007, 3:35 pm

  Tags: The Art Science Non Divide Building

  Had a coffee with a friend (Jon Nakane) who runs the UBC EngPhys Projects lab, and he told me about one of their most recent robot competitions held over the summer. Basically, this is bundled in a with an intense Robotics course that is a favourite of the engineering set (PHYS253 - Introduction to Instrument Design). Anyway, this year the

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• Africa: Reclaiming Heritage in Cyberspace

  Published: October 11, 2007, 8:22 pm

  Tags: Africa, Culture, Digital Divide, Languages, Representation

  So, with all the excitement about Second Life, blogging, .net and Web 2.0 one might just lose balance or get a little dizzy at first upon read more

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• Feats Divide Pair Linked by Election

  Published: October 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Feats, Divide, Pair, Linked, Election, Al Gore, George W Bush, The White House, Florida, Iraq, United States, Ari Fleischer, Jimmy Carter, Rahm Emanuel, Ron Klain, Samuel Thernstrom, Theodore Roosevelt, Tony Fratto, Colombia, Democratic Caucus, Kyoto Protocol, Panama, Peru

  MIAMI, Oct. 12 -- Somehow, it seemed only fitting that at the moment of Al Gore's triumph, George W. Bush would spend the day in Florida, scene of the fateful clash that propelled one to the presidency and the other to the Nobel Prize.

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• DIY art in the lab: Snow sculptures in ice buckets [The World's Fair]

  Published: October 17, 2007, 11:56 am

  Tags: The Art Science Non Divide Building

  I currently teach an all day molecular laboratory course at UBC, where students go through various techniques in the confines of what is often a 4 to 6 hour session. Anyway, occasionally, there is some downtown, and last week, some students started to play around with the ice in their ice bucket. Here is the fruit of their effort - a minitiure

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• Keynote: Harnessing The Leading Edge Of Technology

  Published: October 20, 2007, 3:49 am

  Tags: Assessment, Audience, Constructivism, Creativity, Curriculum, Digital Divide, Digital Image, Digital Video Animation, Gaming, Leadership Amp Management, Ltsfutures, Reboot9, Ulearn07, Weblogs, Wiki, Education, Ewan Mcintosh, Keynote, Leadership, Presentation, Ulearn07

  Thanks to the kind people at Core-Ed the video and slides of my last 'season' of talks on how all of us can lead education and technology change in our schools, Local Authorities and organisations have been put online for all to view. There's also a Google Video without the slides. Every time I do a talk or seminar it's different; in the age

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• I feel grown up now

  Published: October 23, 2007, 10:25 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, World Of Ewan

  We talk about the digital divide created in our more underprivileged areas, but rarely do we talk about the problems our relatively middle classes have, the types of folk who, well, come from a few generations' worth of teachers and become teachers themselves. This month saw me buy my very own brand new computer for the first time (I've always

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