Carla Faulkner

Wow, how true is this blog.  I couldn’t hear the video but just watching it really made an impact.  How many of us are just ‘getting by’?  Probably most.  NO offense to Dr. L but that is the truth.  We all have so many things that we get barely get by every day… even professors.  [...]

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This week we were suppose to find a blog on Dowes blog about theory and I haven’t seen any come across my reader
I notice others have found them but I haven’t

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Erikson’s stages of development
            This is not exactly an educational theory but more of a development theory.  Since we are teaching humans who are developing, I thought it might fit.   If we understand what stage they are in, we may have a better understanding of their failure to learn.  If we know the negatives, we [...]

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Filling the gap between standards and lesson plans can be challenging.  The core curriculum is like a recipe for education.  It leaves no questions on what to teach even down to the depth of knowledge, which is subjective.
 
I think this question is the ‘million dollar’ question.  If anyone knew the right answer, our students [...]

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When this topic first came up, I thought… why?  We are online, blah…blah… blah..  Then, my eyes are buring out from all of the reading off of the screen and now, i am thinking… ok… audio is a good thing. 
i had research methods online and the professor had little video segments where he would talk [...]

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This intro was pretty interesting.  I like how he talked about himself and found his inner gamer.   I found it ironic that he compared games to Darwinism.  The strongest game will survive.  I guess that is why most of the educational games do not survive.  Kids and adults like action and the game must be [...]

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Maybe someone could give me a piece of advice about my crappy computer.  I have been trying to play games on my computer and some games cause the screen to go haywire making me restart my computer each time.  I have a few games that are actually educational but I can’t play them but for [...]

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