New Tools for Back-to-School:
Blogs, Swarms, Wikis, and Games
- The process of blogging—of reading online, engaging a community, and reflecting it online—is a process of bringing life into learning.
- How are wireless, mobile technologies and their emergent trends, such as swarms, affecting the learning environment, pedagogy, and campus life?
- The needs met by "wikis"—documents posted online for open editing by all—are simply not being satisfied by present IT strategies and tools.
- To learn more about videogames in academe, the author spoke with five leading-edge thinkers in the field: James Paul Gee, J. C. Herz, Randy Hinrichs, Marc Prensky, and Ben Sawyer.
- New Horizons
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