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Collaborative Constructivism

March 18th, 2010 No Comments

I have been having a dialogue with colleagues over the past few years about the notion of “Communal Constructivism”. There have been a number of papers written on the subject (e.g. Leask & Younie, 2002; Holmes et al, 2001)

Not least, I have an issue with the term ‘communal’. For me it suggests that [...]

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Digital Enlightenment

November 26th, 2009 3 Comments

I read a recent report written by the Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. It was entitled, “Reviewing Applicants: Research on Bias and Assumptions”. A somewhat interesting finding in their research was this:

“In a national study, 238 academic psychologists (118 male, 120 female) evaluated a curriculum [...]

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