Diigo bookmarks for today 08/04/2009

• Wiki Wisdom: How to Use an Online Classroom Clearinghouse | Edutopia

  Wiki tips from Louise Maine, educator in Pennsylvania.

  Tags: education, wiki, learning, bestpractices

• Humorous Grammar Rules

  English teachers will enjoy these humorous grammar rules that have been circulating through twitter. These would be fun to share and use.

  Tags: education, learning, grammar, teaching, english, literature

• Hear It and Hold It Don't Work Here Anymore

  Excellent post by Angela Maiers about hear it and hold it teaching.

  Tags: education, learning, edu_trends

• Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Takes on Facebook « Canada’s World

  This article on Facebook's privacy problems shows how Jenifer Stoddart, Canada's Privacy Commissioner, is taking on Facebook, who has 30 days to comply with the commissioner's request.

  Tags: education, digitalcitizenship, edu_trends

• Teaching Naked – without Powerpoint « HeyJude

  Tags: pedagogy, education, powerpoint, teaching, technology

• Computer Science Teachers Association - CSTA Research

  The new Computer Science survey is out from US high schools - the findings do not bode well for computer science:
  
  "the number of schools offering Advanced Placement Computer Science (AP CS) has declined significantly in the last six years. In 2005, 40 percent of respondents indicated AP CS was offered at their school. This number decreased to 32 percent in 2007 and to 27 percent in the 2009 survey. AP CS is in many cases the most rigorous course offered by schools. "
  
  I wonder how many programs are introducing programming concepts at other levels or using something like Scratch. Should Computer science just be defined as AP computer science?

  Tags: education, learning, computer_science, computerscience_teacher, edu_news

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