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Articles I Found Interesting in the Last (Several) Weeks

Here are just a few of the articles I found interesting over the past several weeks.

• MYTH BUSTED: Internet Use Doesn’t Lead to Isolation

  Stan Schroeder takes a look at a study conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project that asserts online activities such as social networking, sending emails, and blogging can lead to larger and more diverse real-world social networks.

  For the most part, the study conducted on 2,512 adults simply confirms what most of us know already: people use all this new technology to get in touch with their family and friends; for example, people call each person in their circle of closes friends on 195 days in a year, but they also see each of them face to face 210 days in a year. Same goes for Facebook and MySpace, as 71% of users have listed at least one member of their core network of friends as a friend on one of these services.

• plagium – plagiarism tracker & checker

  Copy and paste some text into the box, and plagium will attempt to discover if the text has been plagiarised.

• That Quiz – Math Test Activities

  That Quiz has some online quizzes for integers, fractions, math concepts, geometry, vocabulary, geography, and science.

• What Exactly Is Differentiation?

  Steven W. Anderson recaps and discusses a recent #edchat that asked “what is differentiation?”

  Differentiation is not specific to one group. In the past I have read and been told that differentiation applies only to “labeled” students. I even have a book on my shelf called Differentiated Instruction which stresses the needs for DI in the Special Education classroom. DI is not just for Special Ed, gifted, ESL, whatever label you want to apply. Its for all students.

• Teach Your Teachers Well

  Susan Engel offers opinions on the state of teacher education programs and how to fix them.

  Our best universities have, paradoxically, typically looked down their noses at education, as if it were intellectually inferior. The result is that the strongest students are often in colleges that have no interest in education, while the most inspiring professors aren’t working with students who want to teach. This means that comparatively weaker students in less intellectually rigorous programs are the ones preparing to become teachers.

• How to Avoid Plagiarism

  While this guide was written for ESL learners, all students could benefit from these tips to avoid plagiarism.

  Text on the Internet is no different than text in a book or newspaper. Anything that another person writes, including email, is copyright protected. Internet plagiarism often involves copying text or images from websites, blogs, forums and social media sites.

Who/What I’m Following on Twitter

Added in the last week: @tlenker, @cyndidannerkuhn, @ParkerALynch

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