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Use of the Information Age Education resources continues to grow. For a list of IAE’s six major resources and data about three of them, go to http://iae-pedia.org/Main_Page.
I posted my first IAE Blog entry on August 22, 2010. It was titled “Are high schools seriously misleading our students?” It was about the fact that the great majority of high school graduates in the United States do not possess the academic skills necessary to pass entry-level college courses.
Since then I have “spoken my mind” a great many times. I write about what currently interests me as I continue my efforts to help improve education throughout the world.
This current IAE Blog entry is my 138th. The total number of entry-reads has grown to over 50,000 and the average number of reads per entry has grown to well over 350. While that does not see like much relative to the more popular blogs, I am feeling quite good about this progress.
I remember back when I was first teaching large lecture sections in the University of Oregon’s Computer Science Department. I taught in a room that had 212 seats, so that was the enrollment limit. Of course, average class attendance was considerable less than 212, so perhaps my typical presentation reached 175 students.
Aha! My average IAE Blog entry reaches more than 350 people—more than twice my average class attendance—and is steadily growing. I feel good about the level of IAE Blog readership.
I want to thank all of my readers. And, I hope you will continue to publicize the availability of this blog to people you feel will benefit from it.
More of my writings are available at:
- IAE-pedia. A wiki accessible at http://iae-pedia.org/index.php?title=Special:PopularPages&limit=250&offset=0.
- IAE Newsletter. A free newsletter published twice a month and available at http://iae-pedia.org/IAE_Newsletter.
- A variety of free books accessible at http://iae-pedia.org/David_Moursund_Books.
- Some very inexpensive Kindle books accessible at http://iae-pedia.org/IAE_Kindle_Books. (Remember, Kindle books can be read on a Mac, PC, iPad, Android, and Blackberry.)
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written by davem, July 04, 2011
Eventually, this "sense of direction and purpose" led me to a full time position in Teacher Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon. I remained in that position until retirement.
I felt well respected and well accepted by my colleagues in the College of Education. I was somewhat surprised by this, since I had never had an Education course. My background and experience in math, math education, computer science, and computer science education, along with my work with the International Council for Computers in Education, had prepared me to help create and fill a growing niche in the College of Education. With the help of my professional colleagues and a lot of reading, I eventually learned quite a bit about the discipline of education.
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written by davem, October 07, 2011
Old age has its advantage. 1. We do pretty much what we really want to do. 2. Sometimes people think we are wise. 3. Most of our contemporaries are not around to challenge our memories of events. 4. If what we say is not acted upon it probably doesn't matter anyway. 5. It gives us something to do with our remaining time. 6. sometimes I marvel that what I say really does make sense. Keep up the IAE it is simulating.
Frank Withrow
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I am surprised by how few people post comments to my entries. And, I am trouble by the number of people who post "junk" comments designed to advertise products that they are trying to sell and/or by people who like to mess up the work of others. I wonder if such people ever feel shame for what they are doing?