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Education is changing before our eyes (because we’re changing it) [#drumbeat]
Thursday at Drumbeat closed with three talks aimed at representing the mix of missions here at the Festival. Cathy Casserly, Massimo Banzi and Anna Debenham each gave short talks based on their particular perspectives and it made for an interesting mix. Cathy talked through her personal evolution from teacher in Jamaica to open education advocate…
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Murder, Mayhem and Mystery – Wikipedia in the Classroom
Back in the summer I listened to Brian Lamb from UBC reference an amazing project at his university where students worked on Wikipedia articles and achieved the extremely rare goal of getting ‘featured’ on the homepage (less than 1% of articles manage this.) Today at Drumbeat I was lucky enough to hear about the project…