An article about the recent censorship of a naked girl on Wikipedia. Discusses the role of the Internet Watch Foundation and more broadly, censorship
Wikipedia's parent foundation is putting major money in an effort to turn "lurkers" into participants by removing tech barriers to making wiki contributions.
Edutopia Magazine's (George Lucas Educational Foundation)predictions about future "hot" trends in public education. Includes moral education, gaming, netiquette, wikis, robots, and more! Hot links and sidebars included. August/September, 2008 issue.
This is a free 20 volume encyclopedia that can be downloaded and used on classroom computers without internet access. The website says: "Topics were chosen for interest to children, by relevance to the [U.K.] National Curriculum and including much of the very best of Wikipedia." The topics have been chosen, edited, and checked for inappropriate material by volunteers from SOS children.
Will Richardson, author of 'Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Tools for the Classroom', uses this site to assemble useful links for educators, publish articles as well as more informal opinions and information about what he he calls the read/write web.
Semapedia's mission is a bit like AR or ubiquitous computing -- "bringing the right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space." Participants print out physical "barcodes" which represent information on wikis. These barcodes can be stuck to physical locations and "read" by cell phones to access the pertinent information.
You don't need to be a technology whiz to bring the power of wikis to your classroom, says Punxsutawney Area High School teacher Louise Maine. In a year and a half since discovering the educational potential of this Web tool, she has learned enough to use a wiki as the hub for almost everything she and her science students do. (Read here about how she uses it.)
Short video on a specific wiki - WetPaint. Produced by Common Craft.
By spring, nearly all of Brown?s students -- including Baker -- had passed the OGT and demonstrated growth in Lexile reading test scores. In between jobs at fast-food restaurants and school, several were making serious plans to become teachers, underwater welders, construction managers and politicians.
What happened? Technology. Not just any technology, but tools that look and feel like MySpace or Facebook -- integral social networks for most American teens. Using Read 180, a reading intervention program, Brown facilitates differentiated learning for reading and writing through a "wiki," a collection of Web pages and other documents that can be created and edited individually or collectively online.
Weller says new Web tools (such as wikis and video-capture technology) put power in the hands of students, but traditional learning-management systems (such as Moodle and Blackboard) emphasize central control by the learning institutions
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An article about the recent censorship of a naked girl on Wikipedia. Discusses the role of the Internet Watch Foundation and more broadly, censorship
Wikipedia's parent foundation is putting major money in an effort to turn "lurkers" into participants by removing tech barriers to making wiki contributions.
This is a free 20 volume encyclopedia that can be downloaded and used on classroom computers without internet access. The website says: "Topics were chosen for interest to children, by relevance to the [U.K.] National Curriculum and including much of the very best of Wikipedia." The topics have been chosen, edited, and checked for inappropriate material by volunteers from SOS children.
Will Richardson, author of 'Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Tools for the Classroom', uses this site to assemble useful links for educators, publish articles as well as more informal opinions and information about what he he calls the read/write web.
You don't need to be a technology whiz to bring the power of wikis to your classroom, says Punxsutawney Area High School teacher Louise Maine. In a year and a half since discovering the educational potential of this Web tool, she has learned enough to use a wiki as the hub for almost everything she and her science students do. (Read here about how she uses it.)
By spring, nearly all of Brown?s students -- including Baker -- had passed the OGT and demonstrated growth in Lexile reading test scores. In between jobs at fast-food restaurants and school, several were making serious plans to become teachers, underwater welders, construction managers and politicians. What happened? Technology. Not just any technology, but tools that look and feel like MySpace or Facebook -- integral social networks for most American teens. Using Read 180, a reading intervention program, Brown facilitates differentiated learning for reading and writing through a "wiki," a collection of Web pages and other documents that can be created and edited individually or collectively online.
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