the beauty and value of many Web 2.0 tools, at least when it comes to staff development, lies in the fact that these tools encourage active content creation and engagement with learning by the participants. Good learning requires students to actively interact with the materials they are learning--to reflect and apply and use this information. Tools like blogs make this possible for individuals to do much more easily than in the past.
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http://www.unm.edu/~devalenz/handouts/sociocult.html - 1 views
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social cultural theory
Science Podcast Collection | Open Culture - 4 views
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The best free cultural & educational media on the web
Introducing iLearn4Free: educational apps for little learners - 8 views
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English is a foreign language for 95% of the world's children. Yet almost all digital literacy tools for young children are written in English. Mobile learning is therefore out of reach for all but those very few children prepared to start learning a foreign language before they have mastered their own. Isabelle Duston, a self-professed "serial entrepreneur" decided to tackle the problem by creating educational applications that will bridge the digital language divide without losing cultural diversity in the learning process. Her iLearn4Free venture is developing apps in several languages for teaching little ones how to read in their native language.
http://www.britannia.com/cooking/recipes/ - 6 views
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British culture through recipes.
Digital Is | Digital Is ... - 7 views
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The NWP Digital Is website is a teaching-focused knowledge base exploring the art and craft of writing, the teaching and learning of writing, along with provocations that push us to think in new ways about culture and education in the digital age.
The Bamboo Project Blog: Blogging for Learning - 0 views
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co-creation and engagement - Key concept in the learning process, aren't they? Have you thought how useful your blog reflections have been to your learning? How could you make blogging a useful tool for your learners, as well?
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create a culture of learning
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Creating a culture of learning. How can we do that in our own learning spaces, our classrooms?
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50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom - 2 views
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"Skype is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom and their students to a world way beyond their campus. With Skype, students can learn from other students, connect with other cultures, and expand their knowledge in amazing ways. Teachers and parents can also benefit from Skype in the classroom. Read below to learn how you can take advantage of the power of Skype in your classroom."
YouTube - The New Media Literacies - 0 views
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Members of the research team at Project New Media Literacies discuss the social skills and cultural competencies needed to fully engage with today's particip...
Brazil's countdown to the World Cup - 4 views
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/akidslifein.html - 3 views
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Are you ready to learn about what it's like to be a kid and live in different countries?
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Are you ready to learn about what it's like to be a kid and live in different countries?
How Choice, Co-Creation, and Culture Are Changing What It Means to Be Net Savvy (EDUCAU... - 0 views
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great analysis of why students, even being digital natives, still need to learn about information literacy.
24 hours in pictures | News | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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Wonderful site to work of photos and cultural awareness. Can you think of ways to use it in the classroom having your students as creators and not only recipients of information?
More colleges, professors shutting down laptops and other digital distractions - 9 views
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As a culture, we're at an odd crossroads regarding personal computers. For years, educators have been clamoring to put technology in the hands of young students through partnerships with big tech companies, best symbolized by the One Laptop Per Child initiative
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More colleges, professors shutting down laptops and other digital distractions
Skype in the classroom (beta) | Skype Education - 7 views
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Meet new people, discover new cultures and connect with classes from around the world, all without leaving the classroom.