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Necropolis Gully

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  Necropolis Gully Ancient Fertility  The only sound in the deep quiet of the crevice was the crunch of my boots on the debris-strewn ground. Towering stone walls, draped in vibrant green moss , rose on either side, making me feel like an intruder in a forgotten tomb . My matte-black suit , a product of a future this place could never have imagined, felt profane against the ancient rock . Then I saw it: a weathered, silent figure standing in the path. It was a statue of a woman , carved from the same stone as the gully but shaped with clear intent. Moss crept up its base and clung to its form like a second skin. This impossible artifact, an architectural anomaly in this raw, natural fissure , stopped me. My steady, determined posture belied the storm of questions raging in my mind. The statue stared forward with blank, unseeing eyes, a silent witness to a history I had just stumbled into. My mission was to find my crew, but this place, this silent, stone woman , was a new, un...
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Distance Education and eduTechnology

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My favorite Distance Learning quotes From https://twitter.com/jjfbbennett Shifting content-based teacher transmitted delivery to student inclusive learning requires a whole-of-school approach. Distance Education provides learning to students separated by distance, this should not lower teaching-learning quality. Technology is not enough. Transformative structures can be easily disregarded by implicit morphic practices Morphic behavior operating in a new structure will not improve learning effectiveness or achievement. It may do at best: maintain output. Distance Education technologies plasticizes the actual place of instruction, within which the teacher fabricates the describable activities. Distance Education teacher is about transformative mastery of ICT contextually applied to the pedagogy used in quality classroom teaching. Gatekeeper teachers can easily conjure up arguments to maintain the status quo to resist disruptive technologies. 5 levels 4, 21c teacher: global, school-org...
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