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	<title>order / disorder &#187; nz</title>
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	<description>Learning in a technology rich environment</description>
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		<title>Wikipedia in Academia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Wikipedia any use for students and academics?  Are the derogatory comments justified and can it be used in ways that support learning?

So many times when I hear academics refer to Wikipedia it is in condescending tones.  Comments from &#8220;You can&#8217;t trust anything in Wikipedia&#8221;, &#8220;It&#8217;s just written by amateurs&#8221;, &#8220;It&#8217;s not real peer-reviewed content&#8217;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wireless expectations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well no tweets from #herdsa. Why? Because there&#8217;s no freely available internet access in the conference rooms. We have broadband in the hotel rooms that works out at about $40 per hour; or we can pay for wireless in the conference lobby, but that doesn&#8217;t extend to the 9 different rooms that the conference is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enviroschools for authentic learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>easegill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Zealand has an Enviroschool scheme where it tries to support schools with sustainability.  One of the local schools here in Hamilton has just been on the telly detailing what they have been doing.
They started a garden to grow veg and teach the children elements of sustainability.  The project grew as they decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six schoolkids die in Outdoor Ed accident</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>easegill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago, six school children and a teacher were washed to their deaths in a flash flood on a NZ mountain stream (see stuff.co.nz and NZ Herald).  A terrible accident and it brings back poignant memories of a similar accident in the Yorkshire Dales, UK when two schoolgirls were swept to their deaths.  In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting used to NZ education</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>easegill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had some wide ranging conversations about various aspects of education in New Zealand today.  All are anecdotal and several relate to personal experiences of my family.
Before we emigrated to NZ, we read up about what opportunities there were in learning, elearning, learning technology etc.  The government made a big thing about how NZ was at [...]]]></description>
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