A few months ago, as I began taking a closer look at Second Life, I started looking for journal articles and books about it. One…
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Author: Michael Hawkes
Michael Hawkes is a professional computer technician who writes open source PHP code as a hobby, and spends the rest of his spare time playing with his cats, working in the garden, and working on a master's degree in education. He is the sole-proprietor of 10th Street Media, LLC.
A few days ago, for some reason, I was looking for news on Czechia. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, but had a vague…
When I started taking graduate classes in Instructional Systems Technology (IST) last fall, we were told pretty early on, that IST is a subset of…
How apropos. In last week’s post, I commented on how the chapter I was reading could do with an update to reflect educational changes as…
The readings for this week covered the history of instructional technology, and my first thought when I saw this on the syllabus was, “Didn’t we…
After being on Second Life again for a few months, I was getting tired of the home I had as a premium member. It wasn’t…
This may come as a surprise to some, but education, instruction, and learning aren’t synonyms of each other. Those concepts have quite a bit of…
Are you hungry? Here’s a bowl of candy. Help yourself. Oh, I should probably warn you about them first. I’m not sure how it happened,…
In taking classes about education, I suppose it’s inevitable that I’ll read something that describes the classes I’ve been taking. Sort of a meta-education. Thus…
This week’s readings dealt with two different concepts of learning that arrived on the scene some time after behaviorism. These are cognitive theory and constructivism.…