A passion for me, and a cardinal reason that I remain excited about education after 10 years in the field is the challenge of narrowing the achievement gap. As a result an ed tech trend that I feel is important as well as interesting is provided affordable web access for the masses. The link below discusses some of the possible solutions to this problem.
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/issuebriefs/ib7.htm
Along the same lines would be another trend, the leveling of power that web access provides. Today … almost anyone can publish a book, a song, or even a movie. You don’t need to be backed by major studio’s etc. This link discussed this trend as well as 5 others to watch.
http://www.eschoolnews.org/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=42098&CFID=7849030&CFTOKEN=16165061
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Thanks for getting me sucked into the article and then not be able to read the whole thing and leave me in wonder. I love the idea of being able to use the web to do things that could have only been dome in the past by a select few. New sites like U-tube allow students to go beyond just demonstrating their knowledge in written form, and allow them to demonstrate their knowledge in variety of different ways. Technology allows students who have different learning styles to showcase their talent. But with any new technology there is always a price to pay. Now that anyone can publish content on the Internet the volume of inaccurate information has skyrocketed on the net. A skill that will be essential for all students to have in the new age is weeding out good content from bad.
John ... my bad. I'm a subscriber to eschool news and was signed in so I didn't think you wouldn't be able to the view the entire article.
I'm an idiot .. sorry.
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