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Design challenge: help the teacher

So, usually I post potential solutions to problems. But this is a problem too juicy to pass up. http://www.43folders.com/forum/2008/01/27/teachers-productivity-hampered-technology-no-love describes a teacher who is reduced to using whiteout to fix worksheets because the district has the machines locked down with none of the needed software. Also note the ancient commercial software the school still runs. What to do? I’m guessing the solution might be a social hack more than a technical one… 

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A newsalyzer for education

Today a neat idea came up during Umber Shamim’s thesis defense. (Congrats Umber!) How can teachers integrate up-to-date news items into curriculum without having to go do all the legwork and research themselves? Read the rest of this entry »

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Add ISBN/ISSN to all bibliographies

I fear the length of time that will be required for the American Psychological Association, the Modern Language Association, and the other popular academic publication style guidelines to acknowledge modern search and retrieval methods. Read the rest of this entry »

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