“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
Education
OLPC Reveals XO 2.0, The Sub-$100 Laptop
Ten Excellent Online Apps For the Innovative Teacher
“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 first in nation to get $200 XO laptops
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.
ICT and Social Justice: Educational technology, global capital and digital divides
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.
Forced to Pick a Major in High School
“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.”
Future of the University (videos)
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.
Articles about clubpenguin.com
33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important
“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 €€œ and librarians €€œ are irreplaceable for many reasons. 33, in fact.”
http://www.degreetutor.com/library/adult-continued-education/librarians-needed
Federal Way schools restrict Gore film
‘Inconvenient Truth’ called too controversial
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/299253_inconvenient11.html