Monthly Archives: January 2012

A Step Forward? Bertelsmann & Others Back $100 Million Venture Fund For Innovative Education   Advancing the Open Front

Interesting thoughts — civic engagement taught in composition/rhetoric via blog posts Distraction is our friend

Pithy paths to collaboration using twitter – Chatters determine the topic to be discussed each week by voting in an online poll. They mark their tweets with the hashtag #edchat, making it easy for anyone to search for the conversation, … Continue reading →

Gizmodo : You can’t afford Apple’s Education Revolution while iBooks are very affordable textbooks, the iPad makes for one insanely expensive backpack What all this adds up to is a education revolution for the landed gentry. Or even worse, schools … Continue reading →

From John Naughton’s top 10 books about the internet So, in the end, I asked myself the question: what would you really need to know in order to understand the significance of the internet?  The answer is that you need … Continue reading →

A North Canton Ohio High School encourages students “Bring their own devices“ The plan, according to the U.S. Department of Education website, “calls for applying the advanced technologies used in our daily personal and professional lives to our entire education … Continue reading →