The Weekly Update: January 4-10

Sunday, 10 January 2010, 16:27 | Category : The Weekly Update
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Teaching with Twitter– Steve Wheeler, Learning with ‘e’s Social Books Unlock Reader’s Voice and and Provide Opportunity for Conversation– The Innovative Educator Learning Styles Theory Versus Sustained Hard Work– Steve Hargadon New Electronic Devices Could Interest Schools– eSchool News Netbooks All Around– Bridget McCrea, THE Journal Top Ten Free Resources for Digital Learners– Online Learning

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Dude!

Saturday, 9 January 2010, 5:31 | Category : Dude!
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Man, I guess Twitter really is a brain drain! By the way, I just woke up, and I guess I should do some work…

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R2D2, Where Are You?

A difficult challenge facing educators today is how to effectively utilize technology to improve student achievement. Although the interactive, user-centered, and social-oriented structure of Web 2.0 technology presents wonderful opportunities to improve the way educators teach and students learn, many teachers feel mired in technology overload. Presented with hundreds of different technologies and very few [...]

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Using Facebook to Improve School Communication

Facebook has become an essential tool for young adults to stay in contact with friends and family and to create a sense of community with their peers. For school administrators, then, utilizing Facebook to improve communication and to create an interactive experience for their school community only makes sense. While many secondary schools continue to [...]

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Revenge 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.

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