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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Educational Innovations Changing How We Learn

I was just reading "The Year in Education: Seven Innovations Changing the Way the World Learns" via the Google Currents app. The original source of the article is http://goo.gl/mag/HLHH1. The "Social Media in the Classroom" section and the paragraph on "Twitter as a Collaborative Education Platform" particularly caught my eye. The latter suggested educators use "Grassroots hashtags like #edchat and #edtech" to call attention to their blogs about best practices.

The last of the 7 innovations is "The Library Revolution", listing the ways that libraries are changing due to digital content. It highlights Drexel's "Library Learning Terrace" and Cushing Academy going all digital, with no printed books. The librarians teach how to research with all digital resources. That sounds much like what we are doing at Chambersburg Area School District with our use of LibGuides: http://littleurl.net/d4c3d1