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Symposium: Science & Web 2.0 >> May 15th Streamed!

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Tomorrow morning, then: Symposium: Science & Web 2.0. Be there and listen to Mike Wesch and Daniel Altschuler. Plus a great panel with Mario Núñez, Juan Meléndez and José Córdova. There will be breakfast and the registration table will open … Continue reading →

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Symposium. Science & Web 2.0: A Dialogue

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Symposium “Science & Web 2.0: A Dialogue” And now, it’s minus four days to the Symposium: Science & Web 2.0 to be held at Sagrado Corazón, May 15th, 8:00am-1:00pm. Registration is free through http://stemmed.sagrado.edu/simposio! Get there early, and enjoy Mike … Continue reading →

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Roger (Schank) and Me: What should we teach students?

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

From Roger Schank’s Education Outrage Schools have always been about educating the elite in things that don’t matter much to anyone. This is fine as long as the elite don’t have to work. Thus, says Schank, we ought to ask … Continue reading →

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education 2.0, for real

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Education rewired: a few students from Catalonia (and their teacher) built a helium balloon,  equipped it with a cheap digital camera, some sensors, and launched it. Its instruments connected the camera to earth and transmitted its position data to the … Continue reading →

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Canada’s science minister is a creationist?

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Canada’s science minister is a creationist – Boing Boing, also from a Tweet by Stephen Downes. Canada’s science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won’t say if he believes in evolution. … Continue reading →

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