Education Week: Historic Election and New Tech Tools Yield Promising Vistas for Learning - 0 views
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Peggy George on 21 Oct 08An excellent article about ways technology is being used to learn about the election and participate in the conversation.
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Peggy George on 21 Oct 08Both major parties' historic tickets-a black man for president, a woman for vice president-as well as compelling economic and foreign-policy issues are converging with the campaigns' use of text-messaging, online networking, and nontraditional media venues to draw young people into the contest. Teachers have also seized on the opportunity to use the favored devices of today's students in teaching traditional civics lessons along with the 21st-century skills experts say people will need to thrive in the information age. "The idea is to teach kids as young as possible to be able to navigate this increasingly complicated media world by giving them some basic tools for analysis