Why Social Media is Better than Your Granny

In a remote village in India 300 miles from Delhi, Sugata Mitra (a software engineer) performed an experiment. He placed a computer connected to the Internet in a hole in the wall. Two months later he came back and found them  browsing and playing games. They told him they wanted a faster processor and a [...]

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Flattening the Classroom Walls with Social Media

My sixth grade students have been learning about advanced reading strategies by composing their own interactive eBook about reading instruction. “It would be nice to talk about what we have been finding with an actual author” one of my students mused. “Great idea!” I replied. I handed my iPhone over to allow this ambitious young [...]

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