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Comment on Howard Rheingold on New Literacies – Crap Detection by Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:15:13 +0000

Thanks Buffy I'll check it out! I've been reading and watching as much of his stuff as I can get my hands on lately!

Comment on Howard Rheingold on New Literacies – Crap Detection by Buffy Hamilton

Buffy Hamilton — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:12:59 +0000

Bobbi, you might also like this session from The Future of Education—the session is archived. He did this with Joyce and Francey last year and it goes along with the video you posted—check it out at http://www.futureofeducation.com/forum/topics/h....

Comment on The Only Thing This Video Proves is 3 Year Olds Can Be Coached by Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:31:44 +0000

Angelina – I absolutely agree that these issues are critical and we need to be thinking about them. But there are so many real world, fact based ways we can demonstrate this and start discussions. It makes me cringe to see us holding up something that can so easily be dismissed as fabricated. which would allow the issues to then be dismissed as well.

Comment on The Only Thing This Video Proves is 3 Year Olds Can Be Coached by Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:29:23 +0000

Aaron, I wish I were kidding. Perhaps some of them just thought it was cute but yes there were people who took it seriously.

Comment on The Only Thing This Video Proves is 3 Year Olds Can Be Coached by Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:19:53 +0000

Colleen I’m glad you were able to use it in a successful way.
My concern is that people are pointing to it was real evidence of something. I also think that the same points could have been made in another way that was not fabricated and have had the same effect.

Comment on The Only Thing This Video Proves is 3 Year Olds Can Be Coached by Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:18:44 +0000

well mine included swearing & banging my head against my desk, but I cleaned it up for public consumption

Comment on Defining Transliteracy by discovering transliteracy | Ink and Vellum

discovering transliteracy | Ink and Vellum — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:30:29 +0000

[...] useful resources. Before you go any further in this post, I recommend you read her recent post on defining transliteracy. The difficulty of defining transliteracy was the source of my initial confusion. I encountered the [...]

Comment on For Digital Natives There Is No Web 2.0 by Transliteracy « Mrs. Bell's Blog

Transliteracy « Mrs. Bell's Blog — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:30:53 +0000

[...] reminded me of a post on Librarian by Day that had a video of a librarian interviewing high school students and asking them what Web 2.0 was. All the students [...]

Comment on Two Questions That Can Change Your Life From Daniel Pink by Buffy Hamilton

Buffy Hamilton — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:06:05 +0000

You might be interested in what one 9th grade teacher and her students did in response to this video: http://www.danpink.com/archives/2010/03/9th-gra...

Comment on Defining Transliteracy by Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:23:14 +0000

you're welcome! I'm glad you find it useful!