Category Archives: Education

Learning…From One Another?

Posted on April 10, 2013 by case1214

In this day and age, we rely — almost religiously — on technology to get through the daily grind, whatever that may entail.  This technological revolution has finally made its way into the classroom, and is most popular in college/university, … Continue reading →

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Is Learning Together Better?

Posted on April 10, 2013 by brimacnaught

As the days advance so does a new phenomenon called “collaborative learning.” What exactly is this so called “collaborative learning?” Well according to Pierre  Dillenbourg and his article titled “What Do You Mean By ‘Collaborative learning’?”, there is no actually … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Learning: What Does It Mean To You?

Posted on April 10, 2013 by emilylupfer

This week we examined, “What do you mean by ‘collaborative learning’?” by Pierre Dillenbourg. Despite being doubtful of the contents due to two typos in the first line of the document, I pressed forward. Within the sixteen page piece, the … Continue reading →

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Learning Collaboratively: Working Together or Hardly Working?

Posted on April 10, 2013 by alice_moskola

At some point, whether in a work or scholastic environment, we all are faced with collaborative learning. Even in kindergarten, we would sit around the reading table and take place in round robin reading (one student reads while the others listen). … Continue reading →

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The Urge To Be Known: Making Solitude a Thing Of The Past

Posted on April 10, 2013 by khathaway

Within today’s current society, technology has taken over our ways of communication and self expression. Solitude is a thing of the past because we are always connected to our technology and we are therefore never alone. The problem with this … Continue reading →

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Will the Printed Book Ever Become Extinct? Let’s Hope Not!

Posted on April 9, 2013 by tvguy321

I’m a member of Generation X. My heydays were the eighties and nineties. I won’t go into the details, but suffice it to say that I belong to the generation that owns the dubious distinction of being on the forefront … Continue reading →

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The Digital Generation Fallacy

Posted on April 7, 2013 by britterler511

Throughout my high school and college years, I have written countless essays, articles, discussion posts, and journal entries about the “digital generation,” the Digital Divide, and digital literacy.  Throughout my research, I noticed that all of the topics have one … Continue reading →

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Your Degree Can Open Up a Window of Opporunities

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Tommiea Jackson

Today in my Electronic Journalism Class 2, there was a young lady who came in and said she wanted us to watch her tape. She played her tape on the computer and it was a video from US Today. The … Continue reading →

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College is not a pre-requisite for the The School of Hard Knocks. Good-luck College Grads.

Posted on April 3, 2013 by sarah girma

In the era that we are living in, it is important to be self-taught, to some extent. A lot of “us” students have been programmed to believe that school is the only way to secure a future and I disagree … Continue reading →

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“Meat…is it really good for us ?”

Posted on April 3, 2013 by nsc

A lot of times we as consumers eat meat and we may sometimes ask the question, “is it good for us ?”  Well a recent study by ABC news reported that lean finely textured beef (L.F.T.B.) or pink slime as … Continue reading →

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