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TeachingTech: To Blog, or Not to Blog
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A blog on technology and education by Jim Pojman. February 06, 2007. To Blog, or Not to Blog. The statistics on blogs are impressive. Technorati. As educators, we can learn a lesson in technology from this. In K-12 technology education the emphasis shouldn't be about learning to use software and hardware (what used to be called computer literacy), it should be about learning how to use the software and hardware get something done. Technology as a tool, not as an end in itself. This is where blogs come in...
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TeachingTech: February 2007
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A blog on technology and education by Jim Pojman. February 28, 2007. The Philosopher's Stone of Software. In my last post I reviewed some of the free software that Google offers and discussed how one could use it in the classroom. This time, I'd like to talk about another free Google product, but it's one that has a "darker" side to it, at least in terms of its educational applications. I'm referring to Google's Language Tools. In Spanish, for example, click here. Strings of three or four words make sens...