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Teaching Literacy: Keeping Up with the Times

Filed under: Ed Technology by Karl Meinhardt

Are you keeping up with the times? Recent advancements in technology and social media have changed the way we read and write. On a daily basis the internet challenges us to interact and engage in new communication styles. Reading and writing are natural outcomes of today’s online world.

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Online or Not, Education IS Social

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Every once in a while we see a news article that makes almost total sense.  Here is a perfect example of one: Why  Online Education Needs to Get Social. We love Marco Masoni’s argument on why education needs to engage the wonderful world of Web 2.0 in the classroom. Course quality, rich content, learning from [...]

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Special Education Ideas Using Social Media

Filed under: Creative Assignments, Differentiated Instruction, Ed Technology, Social Lesson Plans by Karl Meinhardt

We’ve received some great ideas on using social media in the classroom from some of the great folks that took our workshops in June. One of the homework assignments (for credit!) from the workshop required attendees to create two lesson ideas using social media in their area of expertise.

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