Home  Blogs
|
|
Blogs
|
Written by Richard Joffray
|
|
Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
iPaper seems to be a real solution for online document compatability. Check out this test!
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Why did I create these tools? |
|
Written by Richard Joffray
|
|
Monday, 10 September 2007 |
|
I
was trying to send a ferry ticket to my son to come onto the island and
could not find a way to do it. So ... I built a ferry ticket generator
that recreates a ferry ticket that you have already purchased PDF Generator (Beta)
|
|
|
WIKI IN EDUCATION: ADDRESSING CULTURAL DIVERSITY |
|
Written by Richard Joffray
|
|
Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
|
In this new digital age of communication, the Internet has become a common playing field for learning and exploration of most students today. In order to get the attention of most students, we as educators must speak the same digital language (Prensky 2001) as our students. Because information on the Internet is accessed the same from almost anywhere in the world, addressing cultural diversity while integrating this digital language and organization into our curriculum has become of utmost importance in order to assure that students understand and can filter the vast amount information available to them. One platform that is playing an integral role in bringing digital communities of the new age learners together to collaborate on a quest for knowledge is the use of a wiki. This paper will show how using a wiki in the classroom can address five dimensions of multicultural education (Banks, 2004b) and provide better ownership by students of their own knowledge. In this new digital age of communication, the Internet has become a common playing field for learning and exploration of most students today. In order to get the attention of most students, we as educators must speak the same digital language (Prensky 2001) as our students. Because information on the Internet is accessed the same from almost anywhere in the world, addressing cultural diversity while integrating this digital language and organization into our curriculum has become of utmost importance in order to assure that students understand and can filter the vast amount information available to them. One platform that is playing an integral role in bringing digital communities of the new age learners together to collaborate on a quest for knowledge is the use of a wiki. This paper will show how using a wiki in the classroom can address five dimensions of multicultural education (Banks, 2004b) and provide better ownership by students of their own knowledge. |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Richard Joffray
|
|
Monday, 20 November 2006 |
Just as I thought that my ideas were so clear cut that I was honing down the direction for my graduate capstone project, I had to have a conversation with a stranger that may change my direction.
I sat at the bar tonight to have my usual Monday night dinner out on my own. A “Makers Manhattan” and a burger are the course for the night. I picked up my mail to find that it was all junk mail, except for the newest copy of Wired Magazine, which had a story about the growing outlet for our younger generation on “YouTube.com”. This story was interesting but not as interesting as the conversation that it aroused between myself and the gent next to me.
I started the conversation with a usual provocative statement. “We need to get our act together if we want to communicate with our children”. He took exception with this statement as a personal affront and retorted that our generation is no different than any other throughout time in respect to its relationship with it’s youngers. I spent the next hour trying to convince him that we need to change our outlook to accommodate them. I was loosing until I realized that history was my ammunition. I said to him that this might be the first time in history that the younger generation knew something that its mentors had no knowledge of. With this statement I further explained that the technology today is second nature to our children and they can teach us plenty.
On the way home I realized how this might change the type of research that I should consider for my capstone project and add a question that would include “Historical Research”
Has there ever been a time in history that the younger generation had more knowledge in a subject being taught than it’s older generation?
|
|
|
|
|
|
