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Digital Storytelling

(above: Digital Storytelling Training Course)
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I thought this was a fitting way to end since it is an example of constructionism as well as being a project I have had to do for one of my subjects. This article is quite a sweet story of how a classroom teacher used imovie to make his [...]

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Cognitive Tools

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At first when I looked at this article after reading Mel’s Blog I was disappointed. I had been expecting lots of innovative ideas for the use of mind maps. I love using mind maps so this was an exciting prospect for me. I opened the article and started reading. It wasn’t a bad [...]

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Digital Sand Castles?

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After reading Harel’s article “Building Software Beats Using It” I found myself still curious and I have to admit I was actually a little bit disappointed in what I found. In Sand Castles Go Digital Harel makes Papert’s theory of constructionism a little more personal. Explaining how it is the basis of [...]

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I was prompted to read the following article after listening to Sunny’s podcast on Papert’s theory of constructionism.
Building Software Beats Using It.
It’s the first thing in this article that I read and I immediately felt the truth of the statement. I mean who wants to be the tester or user when they could actually be [...]

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