Should Schools Block Social Networking Sites?
Over the past five years, the response of most school administrators to social networking sites– YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, etc.– is simply to restrict access on campus. In a recent piece in Slate, Nicholas Bramble argues it’s time to open access to these sites. Rather than worry about the potential, and often times very serious, concerns teachers and site administrators usually have with this technology, Bramble argues schools need to tap “the huge amounts of intellectual and social energy kids devote to social media” and channel it toward promoting...
Read MoreSocial Learning Tools
Jane Hart (Center for Learning and Performance Technologies) put together a very useful chart comparing the three different ways of building a social learning environment. Here are three related articles from Inside Learning Technologies magazine: Using Free Public Social Media Tools, October 2009 Using Google Tools, November 2009 Using Free, Public Social Media Tools, Elgg, January 2010 Follow me on...
Read MoreThe Weekly Update: November 23 – November 29
‘My Access’ Helps Students Write– Trent Toone, Standard Net Teacher’s Worries Blossom into District’s Online Program– Eva-Marie Ayala, Star-Telegram Competition Seeks Ways to Transform Learning– eSchool News 10.5M Pre K-12 Students to Take Online Course by 2014– Michael Horn, Disrupting Class ELearning Conferences– Tony Karrer, eLearning Technology Mobile Learning Jam Reflections– Judy Brown, mLearnopedia How Technology Can Help Improve Education– David Andrade, Tech and Learning Educational Networking: The Important Role Web...
Read MoreRevenge of the Edupunks
In a recent piece on educational technology, Anya Kamenetz discusses a significant trend that is transforming higher education. According to Kamenetz, Web 2.0 technology is transforming higher education from a centralized and highly organized top down distributive model to a decentralized student-oriented learning model–one that is highly individualized, fairly inexpensive, and accessible just about everywhere. Because of advances in technology– mobile technology, new and exciting social media platforms, iTunes, and YouTube– the way today’s students share information...
Read MoreThe Weekly Update: August 24 – August 30
How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class– Tristan de Frondeville, Edutopia A Challenge to the Multitask Assumption– Clive Shepherd, Clive on Learning Alpine Online Case Study– Michael Horn, Disrupting Class Models for Learning Questions– Tony Karrer, eLearning Technology The Science of Motivation– Danial Pink, TED More Questions Than Answers on Google Books– Tom Krazit, cnet The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine– Robert Capps, Wired Look Ma, No Pen! Electronic Impulses Can Reproduce Handwriting– Hadley Leggett, Wired TPACK...
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