Kicking of the penultimate week of the 500 words challenge is Mark Allen. View the list of upcoming contributors.
Mark Allen is governor and occasional teacher in a small rural primary school, a father of four teenage children, and a Google Certified Teacher.
***Please note that Mark scheduled this post: he’s currently unwell and will be unable to reply to comments for a few days. Get well soon, Mark!***
http://edintheclouds.posterous.com/whats-the-purpose-of-education
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Rounding off this week’s 500 words challenge is Kevin McLaughlin. View the list of upcoming contributors.
Kevin McLaughlin is a teacher, blogger, painter, musician and technology enthusiast.
http://www.ictsteps.com/2011/03/my-purposed-an-education-thats-alive
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Continuing our 500 words challenge is David Jennings. View the list of upcoming contributors.
David Jennings is an independent consultant in learning and discovery.”
http://alchemi.co.uk/archives/mis/purposed_whats_the_purpos.html
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Continuing our 500 words challenge is David White. View the list of upcoming contributors.
David White is a digital media researcher and manager of an e-Learning research and development unit at Oxford University.
http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2011/03/17/education-should-make-us-anxious
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Continuing our 500 words challenge is Simon Bostock. View the list of upcoming contributors.
Simon Bostock is a digital strategist and a systems, games and cyborg enthusiast.
http://hypergogue.net/2011/03/17/the-purpose-of-education/
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Continuing our 500 words challenge is Trish Dooley. View the list of upcoming contributors.
Trish Dooley is Deputy Head at Thomas Tallis School, Greenwich, London.
http://trishdooley.weebly.com/the-purpose-of-education.html
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Kicking off this week’s section of our 500 words challenge is Josie Fraser. View the list of upcoming contributors.
Josie Fraser is a UK-based social and educational technologist.
http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/2011/03/purposed.html
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Concluding this week’s section of our 500 words challenge is Lisa Thumann. View the list of upcoming contributors.
Lisa Thumann is Senior Specialist in Technology Education for the Center for Mathematics, Science and Computer Education at Rutgers University (USA).
http://thumannresources.com/2011/03/12/the-purpose-of-education/
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Continuing our 500 words challenge is Jan Webb. View the list of upcoming contributors.
Jan Webb is a mum, teacher, and blogger with an interest in using technology to support learning.
http://janwebb21.com/2011/03/11/purposedthe-purpose-of-education/
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Continuing our 500 words challenge is Jamie Portman. View the list of upcoming contributors.
Jamie Portman is Assistant Head and teacher of History at Campsmount School, Doncaster (England).
http://www.jamieportman.com/blog/leadership/what-is-the-purpose-of-education-in-500-ish-words/
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