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Drape's Takes
Stupid Is As Stupid Does
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Looks like Google really is making us stupider. Or maybe we do a good enough job at being stupid without their help, thank you very much. Salt Lake City police say a 27-year-old man was trying to go north to Bountiful. He pulled up Google Maps on his cell phone to find an alternate route.
Instead of heading home, he ended on a four-wheeler trail somewhere above City Creek Canyon near 5500 East and 1900 North.
Detective Jeff Bedard, spokesman for the Salt Lake City Police Department, said, "He was about seven miles or so off-road." Bedard said the man eventually rolled his Jeep Liberty.
Bedard says it underscores the limitations of services like Google Earth and Google Maps. He says, "If you look at something from a bird's-eye view and just think, ‘I'm gonna get from point A to point B,' if you're going over the top of the mountain that's not necessarily gonna be the easiest way."  Wow. You just can't make this stuff up. Image Source: Google Maps. Millions of maps in the hands of millions of morons. Heaven help us. Technorati Tags: googlemaps google morons thinkpeoplethink
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Massive Open Online Course
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This is what I call open professional development:  Facilitated by George Siemens and Stephen Downes, this should be a fantastic course and an opportunity to learn more about connectivism. Having perused the support wiki for the course, I'm very impressed with the methods they will be using and pleased to see that in addition to offering a wide range of asynchronous content, they will also be holding synchronous, "live" sessions in elluminate. Apparently, these sessions will include a combination of presentation and discussion. Open education: onward and upward. Technorati Tags: openeducation connectivism pd
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The Breakfast Buffet of Educational Technology
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I received an email from a long-time friend and colleague, an excellent teacher in his own right. I think that most of us share his concerns and know that I hover around this stage of thought on a nearly daily basis. Darren: do you ever have time to eat? How does one deal with all this information and comment? I just spent some time reviewing the Plaxo site.... Your site..... Myriads of Methods: desperately searching for ways to overcome a society unconcerned with the mechanisms of fulfillment. We have... children filled to overflowing with activities created by technology and social routines that require SUPER teachers to compete successfully with teaching legitimate curriculum. Have you ever experienced the breakfast buffet table at an expensive hotel? Attempts at consumption defeat the sumptuousness! This is how I responded. I hear you, brother, and love your analogy! So, my advice to you would be to pick an entree, start there, and ignore the rest. In other words, start with something you're already doing in your classroom and find one way - only one - to include a technology component into your instruction.
If you want to run the activity by me, I can probably suggest a good tool or two to help you enjoy the banquet in a more controlled fashion. Not sure if that's the kind of answer he was really hoping for, but it's all I had at the time. In hindsight, I likely should have mentioned how fruitless it can be to include technology into teaching and learning just for technology's sake - but then again, this is a person that already knows that. So, what selections of advice would you add to my paltry share?  Image Source: Flickr user sacofatTechnorati Tags: education technology satiation buffet saturatedsociety 
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