Active Learning with Web 2.0 Tools

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The Supreme Court launched the desegregation of schools with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Now, once diverse districts like Goldsboro, N.C., are reverting to segregation, concerning civil rights advocates.

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Will we ever get beyond e-mail as the main tool to manage our project communications? Everyone I know believes that e-mail is a terrible tool to keep track of all the tasks, to dos, milestones, decencies, and people related to projects. We are all overwhelmed by too much e-mail, and therefore likely to miss key communications related to our projects. E-mail makes it difficult to achieve a ...

SAGE Journal

By Stuart Grandy, Nichole N. Barger Academic Leadership, The Online Journal Volume 8 - Issue 2 Apr 19, 2010 - 10:20:41 AM We report on the implementation of a range of classroom activities that have been widely advocated in the literature and yet remain less common in the sciences than other disciplines. The practices we use include: 1) seminars, in which students take a lead in discussion of course content; 2) role-playing activities whereby students take on the role of a different person and creatively explore how their perspectives may change; and 3) oral and written self evaluations

PLACE is an acronym created (2009) by Alvaro Galvis to help educators understand and use information and communication technologies. P = Productivity tools L = Learning environment creation tools A = Access to cultural and intellectual capital C = Communication tools E = Exploration tools This web site shares variety of digital resources that belong to each on the proposed categories.

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A Commentary by the Technology Enhanced Learning phase of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme, London, 2010

THE Journal, 08/01/02

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