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Why Social Media Belong in the Classroom, Part II

Back when I was a high school English teacher in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I wanted teaching English to be fun like my high school art classes. Art class wasn’t about sitting in rows and listening; it was about listening to the radio, getting out of our seats and making something.

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The Online Education Game is Changing

The walled garden of higher education just took a volley from one dangerous cannon.  It’s a cannon that might not knock the wall down this time, but there will certainly be successors that could.  What I’m talking about is a place called StraighterLine.com.  The short of it is that for $99 a month, you can [...]

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