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This article is an introduction to some of the most popular Web 2.0 learning tools for teachers and teacher librarians. The authors supplement their discussion of social software by describing the major tools of Web 2.0 and by illustrating how they are being applied in various school settings. Most importantly, the authors (both academic librarians) believe that social software is critical to learning in the digital age, and cite several major educators in this area to bolster their perspectives. A number of these emerging tools impact "teaching, learning and creative expression within learning-focused organizations" (Horizon Report, 2008) and encourage collaboration, knowledge-building and collective intelligence ('wisdom of the crowds'). In promoting Web 2.0, we argue that teacher lib...
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Given these varied circumstances, the class did not cohere particularly well: Only a minority seemed certain to pursue their education while many of the others assumed rather hard-bitten, skeptical, even cynical attitudes to the whole exercise. To this varied and largely unreceptive group, [Margaret Thomson] found herself trying to explain a particular poem's rhythm and how it served what the poet was seeking to convey. I do not recall the poem in question, but its unfamiliar language and structure were proving a barrier for many in the class and Margaret clearly sensed this. "Perhaps," she said, "it would be clearer if you thought of how it might be sung," at which point she began to sing it -- in quite a fine voice -- to a melody that seemed of her own devising but one, obviously, she...
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As a teacher I have been pushed. I have been shoved into a wall and held against my will. I have been fondled. I have had a desk thrown across my room. My entire room has been trashed... I have ex-students who are sitting in jail for murder and assault. Some previous students have been murdered. Some come to school straight from being released from jail. Or a night of selling themselves sexually. Or being abused by a family member. I have berated students for not having their homework done only to learn it was because they were out looking for Dad because he was drunk and they were scared he would be put in jail. I have taught children of Indian Posse and Hells Angels. I don't teach inner-city. I don't do it for the money. I do it because I enjoy working with kids and I hope to make a d...
