computer drone

I recently received an email message from one of the students in my Fall university cohort…

here is the message:
This will be the next chapter we are studying and I need suggestions.  Please tell me how to send AERNet messages properly.  I am computer illiterate.
 
Thanks,
 

(Student name deleted to respect confidentiality)

There are 3 weeks left to [...]

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The chatter on AERNET about “Best Practices” has slowed to a crawl. This is a reprint of the last comment before those folks/our BVI colleagues moved on…
(In reference to NCLB frowning on action research…)
 I don’t know if they do or not. If they do frown on it, they are wrong. Experiential evidence is what generates [...]

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Just wanted to let you guys know that I’m heading/driving to Baltimore tomorrow and will return late Tuesday night. I will have Internet/email access, but not a lot of time to participate… so I’ll do the best I can to chime in… and I’ll catch up when I return on Wednesday.
I’m part of the [...]

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I love LEGO! I have many fond memories of playing with them… and of spending hundreds of dollars on every conceivable LEGO kit for my son. I still have his LEGO collection, and will shortly pass it along to HIS son.
So, when Nate shared an article earlier this week by Stephen Downes http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=29-1  on [...]

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Many iterations of this have come and gone on the AERNET listserv; obviously, this is a topic of importance to many folks, based on their passionate comments.
Here is a second helping…
I believe “best practice” has to be about attaining goals. The desired end result will show what the best practice is when a [...]

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