| The bathtub boasted crochet hooks, desperate highways, Wednesday nights, deformed lawyers, crimson suspenders, weevils, puppy dogs, sea cucumbers, life-enhancing measures, ten-penny nails, consultants, untested designs, dust devils, harp sharpeners, and several long lazy afternoons in midtown Manhattan, or was it? The antenna for the unit looks sort of like a small space ship on a pole attached to a back pack, so whoever wears it each day tends to get a lot of strange looks from the people we meet or cars driving by on the main road through the valley. Jamies blog postings bring you into the day in a life of an archaeologist or, at least, those with some interest in the discipline. This species relies almost exclusively on nontraditional, informal, and on-demand learning. In addition, as with the Hope and Albania dig sites, the entire world is peeking in. In this technological world, however, you can avoid physical dangers of unsafe cities or regions of the world, and still make important scientific contributions. There is a revolution underway in education. WE-ALL-LEARN the title of this book proclaims that the world is open and now we all can learn. This book pushes deeper into several education-related aspects of Thomas Friedmans highly popular book. Today the Web is better known as the Web of Learning. The Web of Learning offers so much.
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