Month: June 2010

A new series of reports from NCTE calls for support for 21st century writing and writers both in and out of school :

Networked literacy is what the web is about. It’s about understanding how people and communication networks work. It’s the understanding of how to find information and how to be found. It’s about how to read hyperlinked text articles, and understand the connections that are made when you become “friends” or “follow” someone on a network. It’s the understanding of how to stay safe and how to use the networked knowledge that is the World Wide Web. Networked Literacy is about understanding connections.

When Doug Lemov conducted his own search for those magical ingredients, he noticed something about most successful teachers that he hadn’t expected to find: what looked like natural-born genius was often deliberate technique in disguise.

The so-called $100 laptop has undergone a facelift in order to be used by secondary school children.

Useful free resizer, also offers a range of image manipulation tools (sharpen, quality, tint, contrast etc)

This is a wiki begun by Alec Couros, ICT Coordinator of the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. A resource for courses he teaches related to ICT in education and media studies.