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Here’s a summary of ideas and conversations from the edublogging community that have captured our attention in the past 48 hours.Will Richardson is caught between the digital and the digital/analog worls of note taking. The problem is his darned Tablet PC. it allows him to copy snippets fromt he Web and mark them up by hand, thus creating a cool library of research. Of course, that method is great for him bus doesn’t play as well socially (like del.icio.us). For now, he will likely stick with both methods. Sound like a really cool app is out there somewhere for this, however.

Tom Hoffman has a great article on openining up the curriculum. Tom suggests having the
href=”http://www.collegeboard.com/about/association/pace/pace.html” target=”_blank”>Pacesetter English curriculum released under an
href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_content” target=”_blank”>open content license, such as a Creative Commons license. Tom writes further about this in his blog.

The clash between the gaming generation and the teaching generation is the subject of this insightful post by Rob Wall.

“iwould say that blogging, podcasting, and the whole read-write web thingy also trains participants to be creators of media. Gaming is perhaps a particularly well-defined facet of this, and something that has a wide participant base. It also offers some great possibilities for learning as well (I’d love to get SimEarth running for my Biology 20 class, but I don’t think it would run on our school’s Linux terminals). A major shift will be required in our ideas about assessment in order to make this fit in with school-based learning.”

In this podcast Jarrett Cummings and Gardner Campbell discuss the rapid growth of mobility in American society and the related expansion in higher education’s interest in mobile learning. Gardner is the Assistant Vice President for Teaching and Learning Technologies at the
w:st=”on”>University of Mary Washington in
w:st=”on”>Fredericksburg,
w:st=”on”>VA.

And Mark Ahlness has more to add to the recent conversation on “telling a new story.” He muses, “the idea of finding the right way to get the word out to teachers about 2.0
stuff. What is spreading the word right now is clearly not working..”

Finally, Alan Levine has a couple of posts worth reading. The first details what he learned as he went through the process of resigning from his currnet position, and the second is about an interaction with another blog owner.