Daily Archive for November 29th, 2005

Students, Filters and Personal Use Of The Internet

Published on November 29, 2005 in Future Directions, Information Literacy and Internet. 1 Comment

A recent post from Doug Johnson, Personal use of the Internet, has got me thinking about appropriate use of this resource by students and access to appropriate material via the service provider’s filter system. This has been a real hot topic amongst edubloggers during the past week or two and James Farmer’s original post has [...]

Computers Succeed With Teacher Expertise

Published on November 29, 2005 in Digital Convergence, Information Literacy and Internet. 2 Comments

I found a little snippet from Techlearning.com this morning about a teacher receiving an award for his textbook-less classroom. Teacher gleans federal kudos for bookless classroom is one of the full articles I found when I Googled his name and it makes for interesting reading. The teacher, Gerry Mangus, class’s test scores are way up [...]