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Using wikis, teachers and students can write their own relevant and up-to-date texts, with the ability to revise them as needed.

Interactive exchanges like these are possible because the Read/Write Web is a much more social and collaborative place than the traditional classroom. Social networking sites like MySpace (www.myspace.com) have more than 100 million accounts and are adding 250,000 each day, while social book-marking sites like del.icio. us and Furl allow people to share the relevant and important sites they have found with others. Social news sites like Digg.corm allow readers to decide which stories are the most worthwhile, and social photo-sharing sites like Flickr.com can create vast picture albums of almost any thing or any place by connecting user-contributed photos.

Teachers all over the world are beginning to use blogs to communicate with parents, share students' work, and bring authors and other primary sources into their classrooms. Kids are using podcasts to capture oral histories, share school news, and create all sorts of audio content. And teachers and students are collaborating on wikis to produce rich, substantive archives of work and knowledge that can be used over and over again.

There is little doubt as to the vast potential of this new Web as a powerful, continual learning space. What is in doubt is what we choose to make of it.

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For another project, I helped a biology class research endangered species. While searching for sites on their assigned species, kids discovered other links that were useful to their classmates, so they bookmarked and tagged those sites

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