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BCDS Live Stream | BCDS mashUp
"This page provides a timeline for all of BCDS’s online activities — from our web site’s news feed to our YouTube channel to our Facebook stream. All our social media updates displayed in one place, in real time.
But the best part is that you’ll be able to see examples of the exciting work Beaver students are doing. All this and more on BCDS mashUp."
Education - Change.org: Technology: The Wrong Questions and the Right Questions
Now we must give up teaching that ink-on-paper is the primary information source. It is not. We must give up insisting that students learn "cursive" writing. Instead, they must learn to text on a Blackberry and dictate intelligibly to their computer. We must toss out our "keyboarding" classes and encourage students to discover their own best ways to input data. We must abandon much of Socrates' memorization and switch to engagement with where data is stored. We must abandon the one-way classroom communication system, be it the lecture or use of the "clicker," and teach with conversation and through modeling learning itself. We must lose the idea that "attention" means students staring at a teacher, or that "attendance" means being in the room, and understand all the differing ways humans learn best. We must stop separating subjects rigidly and adopt the contemporary notion of following knowledge where it leads us.
Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing - NYTimes.com
“It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging out with new media, whether it’s on MySpace or sending instant messages,” said Mizuko Ito, lead researcher on the study, “Living and Learning With New Media.” “But their participation is giving
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