My Bookmarks for 02/25/2010
- Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Why Do We Have To Learn This?
"I can remember some days when kids would ask me that. I could be in the middle of a conversation about convection currents and a kid would raise their hand and ask, "What's the point? Why do we need to know this? What's the point!" I would get so angry. They needed to learn it because I was teaching it, that's why!" - Malaysian women redefine gender roles in technology | Gender News
- The Book of Wisdom – 101 Posts for the All-Around Balanced Life | Balance In Me
"For over a year now I have been writing about different aspects of balance and I know that I have not covered even half of them yet. Because there is SOOOO much to cover. Every day I learn a lot and face challenges that make me come up with new strategies for my own life balance." - FRONTLINE: digital nation - life on the virtual frontier | PBS
- FRONTLINE: digital nation: an online interactive learning tool for frontline's digital nation: the digital you: attention, multitasking and addiction | PBS
- Artists Wanted - Rebekka Portfolio
- Free Online Photoshop or Image Editing Software Applications | Notebooks.com
- Diigo Web Highlighter and Bookmark - Google Chrome extension gallery
- AdBlock - Google Chrome extension gallery
- Learning Zone
- Mobile phones, texting and literacy
- suewaters - twitter
- The Canadian Press: Students failing because of Twitter, texting and no grammar teaching
For years there's been a flood of anecdotal complaints from professors about what they say is the wretched state of English grammar coming from some of their students.
Almost a third of those students are failing.
the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
Some students in public schools are no longer being taught grammar, she believes.
Emoticons, happy faces, sad faces, cuz, are just some of the writing horrors being handed in, say professors and administrators at Simon Fraser.
"Little happy faces ... or a sad face ... little abbreviations," show up even in letters of academic appeal, says Khan Hemani.
The Internet norm of ignoring punctuation and capitalization as well as using emoticons may be acceptable in an email to friends and family, but it can have a deadly effect on one's career if used at work.
"These folks are going to short-change themselves, and right or wrong, they're looked down upon in traditional corporations," notes Postman.
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