Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Spelling… it’s everyone’s problem
As Mark Twain once remarked “the English alphabet is pure insanity…, It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty”.
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eWalk Creates Opportunities for Dialogue Among Professionals
Over the years I have had many opportunities to discuss with my colleagues the benefits of using eWalk to gather data during classroom visits. The amount of authentic data we collect and the information it provides us is immeasurable. If you have been reading my previous blog articles you have read it several times: virtually…
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The earth really is round!
On my last day at the BETT conference in London, on Saturday, I came across some interesting software. As a former Biology teacher, I was really interested in what I saw from Sunflower for Science which is an online software suite with resources for over 250 key science concepts shown in a way that appeals…
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Meatloaf… iffy in any form
We just wrapped up another great Friday lunch with the staff that are in the office this week (we have several roving members currently at BETT and coming home from FETC). For me it was a lunch of mixed feelings, and meatloaf and I have had a serious beef with each other for over 20…
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Day 2 at BETT
The BETT arena seats a thousand people and with teachers from over 100 countries you hear a multitude of languages being spoken all at the same time. The United Kingdom differs from North America in that all of education is controlled at the national level and not at the state level. Because the Ministry of education…
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Minno!
My feet hurt. I am standing in a room that is quite beyond definition.  The convention hall here at FETC 2013 in Orlando stretches on and on, far into the horizon.  It may have no end.  The provided floor map edges are bordered by elaborate depictions of sea monsters and  chasms. I met a ragged…
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The End of RIM
Today marks a historical day in the smart phone space. The legendary RIM, having fallen so far from their once untouchable peak, has come to an end. RIM is no more. Long live BlackBerry. This was perhaps the most surprising twist of the launch event. CEO Thorsten Heins announced the renaming of RIM to BlackBerry,…
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Paul’s adventures in London
BETT is an educational technology show that’s held every year in London, England. It’s like ISTE or FETC on steroids, with over 30,000 attendees at the show and over 100 workshops. This year there are over 700 vendors and while they are mostly from the UK, there are many from Sweden, the USA, Brazil and several…
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Media-X at FETC 2013
This week I am in Orlando, Florida with fellow Media-Xer’s Robert McGregor and Marc Moretti at the FETC 2013 show. We are in booth 506, right near the front of the hall behind the Global Scholar booth. We’ve had folks drop by the booth from Broward and Brevard Counties in Florida, along with out of…
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Media-X has gone to the dogs
It came about as a result of an employee who wanted to adopt a rescue dog. Because the dog was blind, leaving him at home during the day would have been problematic. And so the conversation started. Yvonne: “Well why can’t he just bring the dog here?†Edmond: “You can’t have a dog at work! 
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