Authentic Doing in Education

At Urban we do not block these sites nor have any plan to do such. There is no question that a large number of our students—perhaps the majority—maintain pages on journaling sites, but our policies are clear within the classroom and we try to protect our students limited amount of free time. To us it [...]

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Way back in the medieval age of lab-based computing, we banned games and gaming. The logic of such was quite simple: computers were treated as a limited resource and therefore it was an easy argument to enforce academic use only. Stepping forward to the new millennium (5 years later), we shed all prohibitions of use [...]

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