And there's the rub. Students can often read, too, in the basic sense. But our job as higher educators is to get them to really read, to read critically and do something with that reading. So, too, with the affordances of web2.0.
the research process is likely to become much more open
a balance that suits them, which may lead to more varying degrees of face-to-face and online contact,
All this will put added pressure on university staff, with increasing demands to respond to students 24/7. Read suggests one answer could be for universities in different parts of the world to share the load so that, as often happens already in industry "the work moves around with the sun".
Blubbr is a neat quiz creation service that I recently learned about on Free Technology for Teachers. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not. Great for reinforcing a topic on internet safety, social netiquette, social skills etc.
While K-12 district administrators are "overwhelmingly positive" about the value of Web 2.0 in schools, the use of Web 2.0 tools in actual learning environments is "quite limited," according to the results of a new study from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a professional association for district technology leaders.
cipals and teachers. Our goal is to provide social networking for you and your 21st century learning students. We respect student privacy and as such only you and your students can view your network and posts. Give your students the skills they need to survive in today's technological world!
I am just starting a blog as part of a reflective practice. I also want to use it to connect with people who are interested in education and interested in smart inclusion of technology into the classroom. It's brand new, but I have a post on there with examples of what we're doing at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ.
could be/might be used in a classroom. \
1. Google Tools Knowledge2. Google
Earth Knowledge3. Wiki Knowledge4.
Blogging Knowledge5. Spreadsheets
Skills6. Database Skills7. Social
Bookmarking Knowledge8. Social Networking
Knowledge9. Web Resources in content area
10. Web Searching skills11. Web2.0
Tools 12. Interactive White Board skills (SmartBoard and
Promethean)13. Website design and management
skills14. Presentation Tools 15. IM
knowledge16. Video and Podcasting
This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leaders to provide teachers with the tools and training to do so.
Nesbitt, B. J. (2007). A vision of K-12 students today. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8
Help students shift from being passive receivers to active readers, evaluators,
thinkers, and innovators. Explore the potential of emerging cross-genre,
multi-platform, transmedia resources as tools for
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