Honest reviews of the apps, platforms, AI tools, and devices teachers are asked to adopt. We assess what genuinely helps students think, what just keeps them busy, and what’s heavily marketed without earning its place.
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Great article in the New York Times magzine today on the burgeoning use of blogs and wikis by government intelligence agencies to capture and connect information and turn it into knowledge.
We share how we’ve been using Pageflakes in RSS workshops to create topic-specific student portals, and why these dynamic, customizable pages can be powerful tools for teaching content management, RSS, and global awareness.
Dave Cormier just Skyped us with a link to this article that details the patents on learning management systems that were just awarded to…
Mathcasts.org is a wiki collecting student-produced screencasts on math topics, offering teachers imaginative curriculum options and giving students a chance to teach instead of just being tested.
From the “Throw it Up and See if it Sticks Deptartment” we just put together a Digg-type site over at CrispyNews specifically for those…
Scott Leslie’s “Matrix of Some Blog Uses in Education” has been remixed into an interactive drag and drop tool that can help faculty and others brainstorm different ways to use blogs as an activity and process, not just an end product.