Toss Out Your Textbook for Free US History Curriculum on Learner.org | Beyond School

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Christopher D. Sessums :: Blog :: Using Social Software to Support Teacher Professional Development: Outline for a Research Presentation

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Christopher D. Sessums :: Blog :: An Invitation to Produce, Consume, Analyze: Social Media and Action Research

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• Since we have the ability to organize in a ridiculously easy fashion (Paquet, 2002), the next step involves developing new forms of group leadership.
• I look forward to reading the research that examines how to best manage and leverage new media applications for social action in profit and non-profit arenas.
• Imagine K-12 school children using social media to study social media and the world they live in. Of course, teaching children how to set up, validate, and evaluate experiments with rigor and aplomb requires teachers to be capable of doing such, as well.
• What am I going to do to alter this reality?

• Keywords: action research, computing, educational technology, learning, new media, participatory media, social media, social software, teaching, Web 2.0

The Education Grid on Sun Wonderland Opened | Tom Werner

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Edupunk or Educational Leader? | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

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