This is where I blog my work on my Master's thesis in the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Simon Fraser University.
My thesis takes conversation as the primary mode of learning and asks whether teachers can use emerging web technologies such as blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, IM, SMS and smart phones in middle school to improve the ability of their students to engage in critical discourse. This blog is a record of my research and my work with these technologies in my own classes at Island Pacific School where I teach English and philosophy.
I hope this blog will also be a conversation with the readers. I have built it on the open source CommentPress Wordpress theme developed by the Institute for the Future of the Book. The theme allows readers to comment, annotate, gloss and debate paragraph by paragraph: just click on any of the sections in the table of contents at left to open a page with a dynamic comments section in the margin of the text.
Posted by Braddo on March 9, 2009
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