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Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Footprints in the Digital Age
Updated on Jun 23, 10
Created on Nov 06, 08
Category: Schools & Education
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Scholars Portal provides access to scholarly electronic resources
through a set of tools which allows the networked scholar to search,
save and integrate these resources with their teaching and research
to foster greater learning opportunities.
Internet2 K20 Initiative brings together Internet2 member
institutions and innovators from primary and secondary schools,
colleges and universities, libraries, and museums to extend new
technologies, applications, middleware, and content to all
educational sectors, as quickly and connectedly as possible.
The Online Search Party: A Way to Share the Load
Opportunities for social networking abound on the Internet, but not when it comes to one standard job: using a browser and search engine to comb the Web for information. That task is still typically done solo, because browser displays and search procedures have traditionally been designed for a single user.
Now tools are being developed by Microsoft and other companies that let people at different computers search as a team, dividing responsibilities and pooling results and recommendations in a shared Web space on the browser display as they plan a family vacation, for instance, or research a medical problem.
Meredith Ringel Morris, a computer scientist at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Wash., has created one of these collaborative tools, SearchTogether, now available in a test version as a free download at http://research.microsoft.com/searchtogether. The program is designed to work within the Internet Explorer 7 browser.
Source: New York Times
This 2008 ECAR research study is a longitudinal extension of the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 ECAR studies of students and information technology. The study is based on quantitative data from a spring 2008 survey of 27,317 freshmen and seniors at 90 four-year institutions and eight two-year institutions; student focus groups that included input from 75 students at four institutions; and analysis of qualitative data from 5,877 written responses to open-ended questions. In addition to studying student ownership, experience, behaviors, preferences, and skills with respect to information technologies, the 2008 study also includes a special focus on student participation in social networking sites.
Richardson spoke at OLA and blew my mind with ideas. Lots of material here with some thoughts about how we teach today's children for the 21st century. He is one of our big thinkers today on the Web 2.0, he was blogging 8 years ago
FYI - who knew they had this - is it a good thing or a bad thing??
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126 items | 18 visits
Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Footprints in the Digital Age
Updated on Jun 23, 10
Created on Nov 06, 08
Category: Schools & Education
URL: