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The New ‘Digital Divide’? Wasting Time With Technology
For nearly twenty years, people have been worried about the digital divide: the gap between those who have access to technology and those who do not. Because of the key roles that tech plays in our...
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Institutional Trust and Silencing a 9-Year-Old Girl
Happy Father’s Day, belatedly! My parents and in-laws were in town this weekend, so I was not able to finish this post on time. But here it is, hopefully still of interest. Over the course of Friday,...
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Online Education: Just Like Regular Education, Just Online-ier
It’s the last week in August and I’m back in the classroom. (And back to blogging regularly!) School started on Monday, and suffice it to say that we’re all a bit rusty. Add to that the fact that I’ve...
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Tech Press Flubs the Ed-tech Story (Again): Minnesota and Coursera Edition
This past week saw some fireworks over changes in the language of the Coursera license agreement. Seems that they were contacted by the state of Minnesota about registration of degree-granting...
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Clay Shirky, MOOCs, and Living the Deeper Mission of Education
Seems like the discussion about MOOCs so often gets cast in an “us vs. them” narrative, with people wondering whether or not the new guy on the block will supplant the venerable institutions of higher...
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@Pontifex: Spirituality, Twitter and the Complexity of Diverse Audiences
Today marks the entry of the Vatican into the Twitter-verse as the Pope starts tweeting at @Pontifex. As of this morning, he has three quarters of a million followers. As a Roman Catholic who is used...
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Ends, Beginnings, and All Along the Ways: Invocation for Commencement
Last weekend was graduation here at Saint Joseph’s University. I was honored to be asked to give the invocation prayer at the undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 11. All went well, as far as...
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Tech Press Flubs the Ed-tech Story (Again): Minnesota and Coursera Edition
This past week saw some fireworks over changes in the language of the Coursera license agreement. Seems that they were contacted by the state of Minnesota about registration of degree-granting...
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