Sam’s Online Journal

This is an article about Online Community Groups and the use and benefit of Tapped In to create these environments.
*I love the fact that a transcript of the discussion is emailed to all participants immediately. The teachers are there to build on their knowledge, keep their skills and understanding up to date and a [...]

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I absolutely love the terms used in this article to describe each students. Baby Boomers for the over 45’s, Gen-Xers for over 24’s and Millenials for students born after 1982. Whilst we do have to be careful in labelling students, it is important as this article points out to be aware of the different learning [...]

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This book looks extremly interesting and relevant to today’s teachers. I tihnk that teachers in the schools now, the ones that have been teaching for twenty years, or even five years, would benefit the most from this book because it may help them to understand their students more because IT is a major influence that [...]

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This article by Soloway, Norris, Blumenfield, Fishman, Krajcik and Marx explores the benefits of using the interent in schools. Whilst it rasies some very interesting ideas it only briefly explores some of the negative aspects and I felt these arguements were perhaps insubstantial – empty, particlary about the safety issues the interent poses. There were [...]

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After reading this article, I discovered a lot of interesting facts and relevant ideas. Whilst there are far too many to share with you in this short paragraph I have included a few of my more personal favourites.
The internet allows for two way interaction with materials, whereas books and other standard learning [...]

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