Issue #2, February 2012
Featured Book: Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World By H. H. Jacobs This book, found in the 21st Century Skills Section, contains articles that discuss ideas to improve and update the K-12 curriculum to prepare students for life in the twenty-first century, covering content and assessments, program structures, technology and media literacy, globalization, sustainability, and the thinking habits of students, teachers, and administrators.
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Do you think blogging enhances learning? Steve Learner
Other Books in the 21st Century Skills Section • •
What do you think…
21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools- Now and in the Future The World Is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education Teaching with the Tools Kids Really Use Education Nation Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology Using Google and Google Tools in the Classroom The Highly Engaged Classroom Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
I think blogging enhances learning, but it should be used in the proper manner. It can provide great learning interactions for students.
Trevor Gappa
Yes, it enables collaboration within the classroom.
Allison Vandeventer
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Yes, it does. Through writing you can learn so much about your students.
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