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The Crowd in the Classroom and the Guide on the Side

Posted in Humanistic Approaches to Science and Technology, Independent Study, Technology and Culture on Nov 25th, 2009 2 Comments »

Two related posts came across my RSS reader esthis morning, both written by scholars connected the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
David Weinberger writes about how a Google Image search for “Michelle Obama” brings up a clearly racist image as the first result in a post entitled When the crowd is [...]

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Teachers and Students as Nodes on Online Social Networks

Posted in Education Policy, Technology and Culture on Oct 29th, 2009 1 Comment »

Tomaz Lasic has an interesting post on teachers banned from contacting their students over online social networking sites in Queensland, Australia. I sympathize with his argument that education is an inherently social activity and that online social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace are ways to encourage this social mode of learning. I [...]

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