Articles
| "Anecdotal evidence and research suggest that teachers' integration of digital tools into instruction is sporadic. Many young people's reliance on digital technology in their outside lives stands in sharp contrast to their limited use of it in school." | "Title: A Digital Decade., Education Week, 02774232, 3/29/2007, Vol. 26, Issue 30 |
| "Video games are extrememely successful for teaching children"ed | What can video games teach us about teaching reading? By: Compton-Lilly, Catherine. Reading Teacher, May2007, |
| "Current findings. Research provides evidence that electronic game play impacts and engages mental processes." | Dipietro, Meredith, Richard E. Ferdig, Jeff Boyer, and Erik W. Black. "Towards a framework for understanding electronic educational gaming." Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia 16.3 (Fall 2007) |
| "Educational gaming can bring a tremendous amount of motivation to a learning environment." | electronic educational gaming." Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia 16.3 (Fall 2007): d Hypermedia 16.3 (Fall 2007): |
| "..wikis provide students with a variety of authentic audiences, ranging from students themselves to anyone in the world with Internet access. Knowing that real people will be reading and possibly responding to their writing is often the impetus to motivate students to write with much more enthusiasm than they would when composing traditional research essays" | McPherson, Keith. "Wikis and student writing. " Teacher Librarian. 34.2 (Dec 2006): 70(3). |
| Accuracy of Wikipedia..
“The answer is that thankfully,
there are vastly more editors that want to make it right than
those who want to make it wrong. So when mistakes occur or vandals
strike, the collaborative efforts of the group set it straight,
usually very quickly. University of Buffalo professor Alex Halavais
tested this by creating 13 errors on various posts on Wikipedia,
all of which were fixed within a couple of hours (Halavais 2004)
And in December 2005, the magazine Nature compared 43 entries
in Wikipedia to the same entries in Encyclopedia Britannica and
found Wikipedia to be only slightly less accurate. "(Giles
2005) |
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| "study after study has found that Wikipedia is, in fact, reasonably accurate as a general knowledge source" | Harris, Chris. "Can we make peace with Wikipedia?(TECHNOLOGY Up CLOSE). ." School Library Journal. 53.6 (June 2007): 26(1). |
| "...podcasts offer some of the most promising content for today's social studies classroom. " | George B. Lipscomb, Lisa Marie Guenther and Perry McLeod.Social Education 71.3 (April 2007): p120(5). |
| "..rather than spend his time confiscating MP3 players from students, he integrates them into learning by involving students in scripting, recording, editing, and sharing Podcasts" | Lamb, Annette, and Larry Johnson. "Podcasting in the school library, part 2: creating powerful Podcasts with your students.(infotech). ." Teacher Librarian. |
| "The writing part can be an integral part of podcasting...having kids write a script, practice reading it and preform it gives them three chances to learn the information they are reading" | Book Links; Sep2007, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p16 |
| "Mp3 Players such as such as Apple Ipods ... are making waves as as effective learning tools in schools nationwide, educators say" | District Administration; Dec2005, Vol. 41 Issue 12, p10 |
| "Using Audacity, a free audio-editing
program that works with Macs or PCs, I recorded myself discussing
major concepts that students needed to know for an upcoming unit
test. These test reviews, which I call StudyCasts, are 15-20 minutes
long...StudyCast started as a novelty but has now grown into an
important part of the review practice for many of my students....In
an end-of-the-year survey, 85 percent of my students expressed the
hope that other teachers will start recording their own StudyCasts. |
After the Bell, Beyond the Walls By: Langhorst,
Eric, Educational Leadership, 20070501, Vol. 64, Issue 8 |
"Ignite! Learning, an educational
curriculum and new media publishing company, recently created
a free learning channel on YouTube for upper elementary and middle
school students and their teachers. According to a company press
release, this free educational channel includes reformatted segments
on science, social atudies and current events from Ignite! Learning's
new Curriculum on Wheels learning system." |
Media Company Launches New Channel. Curriculum Review, 01472453, Mar2007, Vol. 46, Issue 7 |
| "It's very clear-kids want a voice. They have an inherent desire to be heard and this site gives them that opportunity. Now we can stick our heads in the sand and ignore YouTube, or we can use it to motivate students." | YouTube Comes to the Classroom. By: Adam, Anna, Mowers, Helen, School Library Journal, 03628930, Jan2007, Vol. 53, Issue 1 |
| “RSS stands for Real Simple
Syndication and if you’re an educator, I think it’s
the one technology that you should start using today, right now,
this minute. And tomorrow, you should teach your students to use
it.” ( 75) |
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