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Many schools and teachers have not yet recognized—much less responded to—the new ways students communicate and access information over the Internet.

An experimental interactive whiteboard resource.  Its purpose is to allow some of the benefits of an expensive visualiser to be used in the average classroom.  Use a webcam to project objects on to the interactive whiteboard.

Traditional teaching and learning strategies are becoming increasingly ineffective with a generation of secondary students that have instant access to information, are accustomed to managing their own acquisition of knowledge, and embrace the roles of content producer and publisher.

Today’s high school curriculum presents students with assignments that lack a real-world context and activities that lead to uninspired projects and end in a letter grade.

Students embrace media that presents participants with a challenge and requires them to draw on prior learning, acquire new knowledge, and tap their creativity to fashion solutions.

Using Twitter to Break Down Classroom Isolation 5 Advantages for Teachers Using this Technological Tool in Education

Twitter provides a quick method for keeping in touch with other teachers and a way to quickly share information or resources related to current curriculum issues

Twitter also provides a quick communication tool for collaboration efforts and group communication between students working on a common project.

But not all students are part of these learning networks and the content coverage is not always comprehensive. Therefore, educators must work to ensure that students gain these skills (Jenkins, et al., 2008). Rheingold (n.d.), who as he puts it “fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension,” is also working to change the belief that all students are tech–savvy by bringing emerging technologies — blogs, wikis, videos — into the college classroom (Rheingold, 2008; Young, 2008). His project is called the “Social Media Virtual Classroom” and is designed to expose students to “participatory media” in order to promote civic engagement.