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Home / / Archives: April 2008

Teaching with Twitter

by Prof Wesch
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| Vision of Students Today, World Simulation
April 28, 2008

The World Simulation was an amazing success this year, thanks in part to the use of Twitter and Jott, which allowed students to send live updates of major events through their mobile phones. You can check out the tweets here. Below is a video of the tweet-stream roughly synchronized with...
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Published: “Anti-teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Significance”

by Prof Wesch
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| Publications
April 8, 2008

My latest little article, “Anti-teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Significance” has been published by Education Canada. It is currently available as a pdf download on their website. The paper puts together some of my better blog smatterings of the past 2 years into one 4 page article.
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Great deal at Target

by Prof Wesch
24
| Smatterings
April 2, 2008

Downloading pics from my camera-phone today …
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“Overthinking” and other insights into the current state of education

by Prof Wesch
23
| Smatterings
April 1, 2008

In an earlier post, I mentioned that as an anthropologist I like to pay attention to clichés as little insights into the current state of education. I pointed out that the often-heard lament that “some students are not cut out for school” is a telling statement about the state of...
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