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The Art of No

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  The Ayes Have It (But She Don't) Everybody knows the bill is dead Everybody knows the Senate’s red Everybody knows the deal is done The major parties had their fun The crossbench bargains were all just show The whips have cracked, the whistle’s blowed That’s how it goes And Hanson always votes no. Everybody knows the bells are ringing Everybody knows the mud they’re slinging Everybody knows the clerk can’t count With all the grievances they mount Everybody knows that the motion’s lost Everybody knows what the lobby cost The Ayes go high, the chamber’s low And Hanson always votes no. And everybody knows that it’s now or never Everybody knows that it’s gonna take forever Everybody knows that the act is rotten Old amendments best forgotten Everybody knows the tellers move With nothing left for them to prove The red room puts on quite a show But Hanson always votes no. Everybody knows the maiden speech The lessons that she tried to teach About the fish and about the chips And the tig...

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...