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Tag Archive 'open source software'

Google’s Wonder Wheel

Posted in Digital Literacy Tools, Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2009

Last week Barbara Nesbitt, one of our November 14 Digital Literacy Conference presenters shared Google’s Wonder Wheel tool with me. I have been using it extensively ever since for more advanced Google searches.
It is a pre defined mind mapper which helps the user get all the related search results in a wheel shaped like [...]

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Today’s Students are “Digital Natives”

Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2009

The children entering our schools are different than ever before. The well known author, teacher, and game designer Marc Prensky coined the terms “digital native” and “digital immigrant” early in this decade. If veteran educators today can look at themselves as “digital immigrants” and understand that the young people today are “digital natives” it will [...]

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