Exploring ways to enhance education with technology and innovation
Google is a monster search engine with enormous capacity. I’m still learning fun tricks about refining my searches to isolate the exact results I need, and it remains my favorite research buddy… but simple searching aside, the variety of other applications developed (and acquired) by Google is staggering. The more I delve into the collection [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2009 by Sharon Elin
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My school district is locked-down tight and fixated on security when it comes to internet access for students, which frustrates me. After seeing so many references on twitter and plurk about web2.0 sites being used in education by other educators, I was curious whether similar restrictions were nation- or even worldwide. I posted a survey [...]
Posted on February 11th, 2009 by Sharon Elin
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Hide your laptops!
Budget slashers are on the loose, and technology is an easy scapegoat.
The 21st Century is snickering behind our backs, skipping on ahead of us out of sight while schools are hunkering down more stubbornly into their resting place in the 19th Century. The kids just roll their eyes and slump further in their [...]
Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by Sharon Elin
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