According to a new survey of high school students, two-thirds are bored with their classwork. A staggering 22% have contemplated dropping out of school altogether. The results, detailed on CNN.com, come as little surprise, and, while certainly nothing new, reinforce the need to reconsider traditional instruction, classwork, and assessment. The statement that leaped out [...]
Checking the Techcrunch feed this morning, I learned that a new wrinkle to the social world of Web 2.0 has been unveiled: the social dictionary. The site is Word Source, and it appears to be a useful online dictionary. It is clean and ad-free and words can be looked up simply by typing the desired [...]
Found an interesting story in today’s TechCrunch feed.
One of the most amazing aspects of Web 2.0 is the incredible power it places in the hands of the user. In the traditional Internet, power rested in the hands of site owners/creators, who determined what content would be available to the rest of us. Today, sites [...]
Found a link to this fun tool while exploring Technorati. It’s on Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog. It is an applet that calculates a blog’s fiscal value. I have it in my sidebar widgets, at the bottom. Anyone blog shopping?
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Greg Rodriguez from San Antonio ISD made the presentation in place of Miguel Guhlin today. The audience consisted of a blend of network admins looking at the technical requirements of the Web 2.0 tools on servers, networks, administration, etc., and educators/technology specialists, who were primarily concerned with the application of these tools in the classroom. [...]
I am very excited to get to hear Will Richardson today at TCEA. He is discussing the various aspects of today’s world that are putting pressure on us as educators, such as evolving technology, changes in occupations, the availability of information like never before, etc.
Some numbers he shared:
2,000,000 blog posts daily
75,000 Youtube videos added [...]
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