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How can you use the List and Slide features of Diigo to present Thinkfinity resources to others?

“List” is a great way to organize, share and display specific collections of bookmarks. Once you add bookmarks to your list, you can easily drag and drop items to arrange the order in any sequence that you’d like to present.

Another, renowned education theorist Howard Gardner, took him to task for comparing the U.S. with China.

Texas has not endorsed this agreement or a similar one reached in January among the other states, the District of Columbia, and MySpace. Texas officials have said they want quicker action on verifying users' ages and identities than the pacts guarantee.

Among other changes, Facebook has agreed to: • Ensure that companies offering services on its site comply with its safety and privacy guidelines. • Keep tobacco and alcohol ads from users too young to purchase those products. • Remove groups whose comments or images suggest they involve incest, pedophilia, bullying, or other inappropriate content. • Send warning messages when a child is in danger of giving personal information to an adult. • Review users' profiles when they ask to change their age, ensuring the update is legitimate and not intended to let adults masquerade as children.

Users can search the site for ideas on classroom instruction, classroom management, and student assessment, and they can sign up to receive a monthly eNewsletter.

Searchable subject areas include technology, biology, chemistry, geometry, algebra, computer science, and business.

He underscored that the book does not aim to frighten school leaders, but to urge them to treat the approaching changes as an opportunity rather than a threat.

Online Opinion A national survey of 3,200 adults found more support for advanced, college-level courses for high school students and online courses for rural students with limited coursetaking options than for courses targeting dropouts or home-schoolers. Source: Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns predicts that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet.

“Whenever an industry gets disrupted, people always consume more, because it’s more affordable, it’s simpler, easier to access, to customize to what they need,” he said. “What a wonderful thing, that we would consume more education.”

"What makes our law school is our faculty," Peter Rock Ternes, a second-year Chicago law school student, said in a statement. "I think it makes sense to encourage focusing on them and on the classroom discussions." Banning internet access in classrooms, Levmore said, would restore basic rules of politeness and professional etiquette between students and professors.

A professor at Harvard Law School who did not want her name published in this article said disallowing laptops has cultivated class discussion and student participation.