Jean MacKenzie Ward Colson

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If you awoke to find that you lived in a village without electricity, and you were their teacher, how would you do it?

We are very, very lucky to have the chance to communicate with each other via the internet. We benefit from the technologies associated with the internet. We enjoy lively discussions with each...

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Was there a time in our mythical past when 'all was well' in the garden of learning and teaching?

There seems to be a dysfunctional gap between learning to succeed within society and learning in order to become a capable and fully functioning adult.. Or are we suffering a particular...

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Do you think that digital technologies can stimulate an increased interest in reading and writing and or increase the level of literacy within a society?

In some developed countries, functional illiteracy continues to be a very serious problem, partly due to their crisis in education.. Do you think digital technologies might influence an increase...

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What parallels do you see between the invention of the internet - the 'semantic web' and the invention of the printing press?

Gutenberg's press probably influenced fundamental shifts in general literacy, social structures and the loci of political power as well as subsequently influencing other major changes in society.

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