Category Archives: Jeff’s Web Clippings

Why Teachers Should Join Twitter…What I have Learned as a Twitter Newbie « adaptivelearnin: Okay, I admit that I rebelled against joining Twitter for the longest time.  I had friends and family members urging me to join.  I often said, “Why should … Continue reading →

Teachers Teaching Teachers, on Twitter: Q. and A. on ‘Edchats’ – NYTimes.com: Each week, thousands of teachers participate in scheduled Twitter “chats” around a particular subject area or type of student. Math teachers meet on Mondays, for instance, while science … Continue reading →

What FACEBOOK and GOOGLE are Hiding from world. (by thoughtawakening)

Seth’s Blog: Back to (the wrong) school: Large-scale education was never about teaching kids or creating scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system.

Students Have No Idea How Google Works: In a detailed study of 30 college students by anthropologists at Illinois Wesleyan, only seven were able to do a “reasonably well-executed search.” According to Inside Higher Ed:

10 Steps to Kick Start Your Twitter Network | edte.ch: When you join Twitter it can seem a strange little place, with it’s own rules and secret ways. Having helped many people make a start I wanted to share some … Continue reading →

Students Speak Up in Class, Silently, via Social Media – NYTimes.com: Instead of being a distraction — an electronic version of note-passing — the chatter echoed and fed into the main discourse, said Mrs. Olson, who monitored the stream and … Continue reading →

What Do Kids Say Is The Biggest Obstacle To Technology At School?: The project surveyed almost 300,000 students (along with 43,000 parents, 35,000 teachers, 2000 librarians and 3500 administrators) from over 6500 private and public schools last fall about how … Continue reading →

(via Why Blog? | Walking Through Information Technology) Created by one of our COETAIL participants in Taipei this is an excellent presentation on why we blog and why we make you blog for this course. 

80% of college now looking at students social presences. : According to a Kaplan survey of college admissions officers, more than 80% said they consider social media presence when recruiting students. While they may not completely base an acceptance or … Continue reading →