“Once they were hosts to lively discussions about academic style and substance, but the time of scholarly e-mail lists has passed, meaningful posts slowing to a trickle as professors migrate to blogs, wikis, Twitter, and social networks like Facebook.” Chronicle of Higher Education
“Teachers for all levels of students today have so many more teaching aids than even just a few years ago. That’s not just because of greater access to the Internet but also because of the growing number of web applications that they can use. Some applications are specifically geared towards teaching and learning. Other applications can be adapted for these purposes. Here’s a list of some online applications, listed alphabetically, that we feel are excellent for teachers.”
Birmingham city schools will be the first in the nation to receive laptop computers designed for children in third-world countries under an agreement completed over the weekend, Mayor Larry Langford announced Monday.
Underwood, J. D. M. (2007). Rethinking the Digital Divide: impacts on studenttutor
relationships. European Journal of Education, 27(2), 213.222.
This paper presents a Marxist analysis of the current function and role of information and communication technology (ICT) in education, with specific reference to schooling in the UK.
“Ninth graders often have trouble selecting what clothes to wear to school each morning or what to have for lunch. But starting this fall, freshmen at Dwight Morrow High School here in Bergen County must declare a major that will determine what electives they take for four years and be noted on their diplomas.”
The interviews, which were recorded at the Global Meeting in Venice, Italy in late March 2007 are with:
Ranabir Samaddar, Calcutta Research Group
Stanley Aronowitz, City University of New York
Wang Hui, Tsinghua University, Beijing
These interviews are about changes to the university in three key sites: India, he USA and China.
“As libraries’ relevance comes into question, they face an existential crisis at a time they are perhaps needed the most. Despite their perceived obsoleteness in the digital age both libraries – and librarians – are irreplaceable for many reasons. 33, in fact.”
http://www.degreetutor.com/library/adult-continued-education/librarians-needed
‘Inconvenient Truth’ called too controversial
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