What does a social media classroom look like? a collaboratory?
An eight-minute video created by Howard Rheingold gives us a glimpse of the affordances of an integrated environment incorporating social media tools like Delicious, Twitter, blogs, Flickr and wikis. Howard tells us know to worry about keepng up with technologies, it is better to try and keep up with the literacies and pedagogies that technologies can provide.
Are you really reading when you go online?
This NY Times article explores the debate about the effects of ICT on reading in the digital age. Many children are engaged in reading fragmented, non-linear and somewhat variable quality of online text. Will this lower literacy levels? As usual this is a complex issue with no easy answers.
The one-to-one computer experiment
In Birmingham, Alabama some school students have been given the green and white XO laptop as a pilot of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. Will this program work? e-school news reports as educators in the US look on.
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