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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Education goes where students go: online

Don't miss this article by JEANNETTE SCOTT if you're at all curious about how students do homework at Gaggle.

Photo: Jeff Ruppenthal/Sunday News

Gaggle is also a Web site (Gaggle.net) where students do homework. And it's not the only silly-sounding online tool connecting home and school. Moodles, wikis, Google docs and Facebook are the new means for group study, homework assignments and collaborative projects. Even virtual lockers are reducing backpack loads.

Educators have harnessed such online applications to engage today's "technology-native" students. And students are responding."We're in their world," said Diane Patton, science coordinator for the School District of Lancaster.
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Source: lancasteronline.com