Posted in cool, digital literacy, images, media literacy, social networks, technology integration on July 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I had the chance to work with a small group of middle school teachers the last two days as they developed teaching activities in geography and history. One of the questions that came up as we were creating placemark descriptions in Google Earth was
Where can I find good images that are copyright free?
It’s a common [...]
Posted in digital literacy, google, media literacy, search on May 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Using the Internet to help kids do research is always a good idea. But you have to be careful so that they don’t waste time or run across inappropriate sites. How to help kids find what they need?
A couple of suggestions and a few kid-friendly search tools might help!
Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University, [...]
Posted in digital literacy, economics, media literacy, news, second life, social networks, technology integration, video games on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
The beauty of the Web is that . . . well . . . everything is connected. You read an article that leads you to a site that connects to your RSS feed which is mentioned on Twitter that becomes a Skype conversation that sends you to an old listserv . . . and within [...]
Posted in digital literacy, history, lesson plans, ncss, primary sources, social studies, technology integration on April 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In an earlier post, I mentioned the sweet, new Digital Vaults site from the National Archive people. The site really blew me away with its cool interface, teaching materials and use of primary sources. I’m thinking, this is what digital archives should look like! Can’t get any better than this.
Or can it?
Thumbing through the latest [...]
Posted in digital literacy, media literacy, teaching, technology integration on April 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Spent yesterday with a small group of teachers talking about 21st century literacy skills. We had a great conversation early in the day about what that really looks like and why students (and teachers!) need to be literate in different ways.
Much of the afternoon was spent hands-on, learning new tools to help teachers and students [...]
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