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Home / / Archives: October 2008

Kilpatrick on Education as Life

by Prof Wesch
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October 22, 2008

Daniel Willingham has an interesting response to Steve Hargadon today in the Britannica Forum (I highly recommend both articles) in which he references an article by William Kilpatrick, which I consider a must-read. In the article, Kilpatrick has some great lines like, “We have for years increasingly desired that education...
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Revisiting “A Vision of Students Today”

by Prof Wesch
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| About Our Videos, Vision of Students Today
October 21, 2008

(originally published on Britannica Blog) In spring 2007 I invited the 200 students enrolled in the “small” version of my “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” class to tell the world what they think of their education by helping me write a script for a video to be posted on YouTube. The...
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Britannica Forum on Classroom 2.0

by Prof Wesch
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| Smatterings
October 21, 2008

I’m part of a forum on “classroom 2.0″ over on Britannica this week. It should be fun. We have some very thoughtful contributors with many different perspectives participating, including Steve Hargadon, Mark Bauerlein, Dan Willingham, David Cole, Michael Horn, John Seely Brown, and many others. Here is a snippet from...
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