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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 starts the week with this nice post on Lifelong Teachers. We are using blogs and podcasts to crete new models for lifelong learners, he argues, so why no turn the same kind of thinking onto the teaching guild.

Also, Graham Wegner is talking about mobile learning and its potential, and is responding to some of the good work by Alex Hayes. Bryan Alexander is also musing about the shift form PCs to mobile computing.

I’m not sure what the motivation was/is, but Stephen Powell has this list of reasons institutions of Higher Education don’t change. These do have a certain air of familiarity to them.

Christopher Sessums has this insightful article on inquiry and blog-based approaches to Professional development training.

“It is my contention that weblogs provide a particularly helpful environment that allows educators to record and share their thoughts, treatment plans, and analyses. Weblogs also provide a place where educators can seek counsel and advice from peers, hold informal conversations about related and unrelated topics, as well as network with other educators from a variety of institutions. Weblogs also provide an environment that permits teacher educators to study issues such as self-presentation and reflective thinking that in turn refines research and understanding of teacher professional development.”