Spontaneous Groups- August 26, 2005 by Rob Reynolds... thinking about the natural selections of groups in education. No one made any of these kids or parents sit where they did. No one made them choose the instrument they play. And no one made me sit with these other parents. Through a variety of decisions and choices we all ended up with self-selecting communities. It happened naturally and with little real thought.This is what we human beings do. We socialize. We get into groups of people who, at some level, seem to resemble...http://acolla.blogspot.com/2005/08/spontaneous-groups.html Free the Curriculum- August 5, 2005 Jimbo Wales, writing as a guest blogger in lessig blog, is in the process of revealing his list of 10 things that will be free. Being the "Wikipedia guy", his first prediction is free Encyclopia, as in wikipedia.His second prediction is free the curriculum:a complete curriculum (in all languages) from Kindergarten through the University level.I will be very concerned, as shared by a comment made by Bill Korner, that if this "complete curriculum" is ONE unified curriculum and "in all languages".http://acolla.blogspot.com/2005/08/free-curriculum.html |