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In the Chapter "What Should We Teach? Rethinking Literacy" from the book Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture, by Henry Jenkins with Ravi Purushotma, Margaret Weigel, Katie Clinton, and Alice J. Robison, it contemplates what to do about new literacies. The book talks about how it is just as important for students to learn old literacies, like reading and writing, than it is to learn new literacies as well, digital media. They describe the new literacy culture as participatory culture.

High Stakes Testing, by Miriam J. Metzger, Andrew J. Flanagin, talks about testing, and the No Child Left Behind Act and how it has affected schools and their methods of teaching. It explains how because of the No Child Left Behind Act the children are no longer being taught to know the information, but they are being taught so they can pass the tests and get the schools more money. The tests the students are taking are focusing on Mathematics and Reading...

In an article written by Professor Shelia Tucker of East Carolina University, the hotly debated issue of Online Education vs. Traditional Education is analyzed and scrutinized thoroughly. Appropriately titled, "Distance Education: Better, Worse, Or As Good As Traditional Education?" Tucker discusses how each type is viewed in the field today, the ideal group of learners for each type of education, and the research study conducted as well as its results. To read more about the article visit my Google site at: https://sites.google.com/a/mail.csuchico.edu/walker333/

In the online article that I read it gave the definition of what a flash mob is and then it went on to explain the origins of flash mobs. The first flash mob in 2003 was suppose to poke fun at society and conformity and in doing it started a new way to conform without appearing to conform. The article then lists different countries flash mobs and the largest one that I could find was an international pillow fight.

Boys, masculinities and literacy: Addressing the issues This article is from the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, written by Wayne Martino. Through interviews, gathering data and reading over 30 books on boys, masculinity and literacy, he discusses these problems while offering solutions for the "underachievement and lack of engagement" with literacy for boys. (9). Right away Martino explains that not all boys are underachieving but overall test scores have shown a general pattern of boys struggling in literacy practices. He offers many reasons that may be causing this literacy crisis for males, as well as solutions that need to being in schooling.

Sarah M. Butzins article, Integrating Technology into The Classroom: Lessons from The Project CHILD Experience, claims that Project CHILD helps students learn to be independent workers and how to work effectively in groups by developing skills to help themselves and each other when the teacher is unavailable. Butzin realizes that it is uncommon for teachers to want to learn how to implement technology into the classroom and curriculum, but by having three main teachers who each specialize in one subject- reading, math, and language arts- they are able to become experts in utilizing technology and software into their area of expertise.

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The article I am Reading is about music and copyright laws. Also, how the internet has changed the way music is distributed and how this affects the copyright laws.

Most people probably feel that Twitter is nothing but a waste of time, and does nothing positive for the individuals using it. After reading this article, I must say Twitter is darn good invention, that has a postive effect and outcome for the individuals who partake in the action.

I stumbled upon this article today when i typed in pandora, and i happen to use the internet radio all the time; this article talks about how pandora works, and all of the odds and ends that you really wonder about when you think of the internet radio. So if this seems of interest to you i recommend you read it :)

With reading this article, I can summarize it as being about someone that described every kind of person there is on facebook in a more hysterical way.

This is a short article and picture about google sky and how it works. if you don't know what google sky is maybe you should read this article; but to give you a little info its just like google earth, actually it is linked off of google earth. an exploration of the universe with intense amounts of zoom!

This site shows all the flash mobs coming up and why they are doing it. Its really interesting to read the variety of flash mobs they do.