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JotSpot: Working in a group just became easier with this online wiki tool that allows students to share notes, project ideas and information in an easily accessible format.

Greenfield, who has been using films in her classes since the 1970s

Much of the teacher’s work is in the preparation, when mistakes and dead-ends are invisible to students.

Much of the teacher’s work is in the preparation, when mistakes and dead-ends are invisible to students.

the two learning
systems and cultures, that of school and of the Web, are fundamentally different;
one has a basis in control and structure, and the other is seemingly unstructured
and chaotic. Educators, particularly those of the young, would ignore such
observations at their peril. As Lee states, “most teachers, parents, education
bureaucrats and politicians will not sit easily with an education they don’t
control – and in many senses do not understand”