use their laptops to read "Don Quixote" and Dante's "Divine Comedy" on the Internet

Technology is the wave of the future

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what if you want to round up all your tweets at the end of the day and put them in a blog post?

Students can respond to open-ended or multiple-choice questions, and their answers can be immediately tabulated, graphed and displayed to the class via a website without proprietary equipment.

Now, many common devices can automatically determine and record their own precise location and can save that data along with captured media (like photographs) or can transmit it to web-based applications for a host of uses.

a collection of technologies that are used to configure and manage the ways in which one views and uses the Internet.

imbuing ordinary objects with the ability to recognize their physical location and respond appropriately, or to connect with other objects or information.

Increasingly, those who use technology in ways that expand their global connections are more likely to advance, while those who do not will find themselves on the sidelines.

The notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are redefining scholarship as we grapple with issues of top-down control and grassroots scholarship.

opportunity for increased social interaction and civic engagement among this group. The success of game-based learning strategies owes to active participation and interaction being at the center of the experience, and signals that current educational methods are not engaging students enough.