The modern American school faces rough challenges. Budget cuts have caused ballooning class sizes,  many teachers struggle with poorly motivated students, and in many schools a war is being waged on distracting technologies. In response, innovative educators are embracing social media to fight back against the onslaught of problems. Technologies such as Twitter and Skype offer ideal solutions as inexpensive tools of team-based education. More…

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Facebook isn’t just a great way for you to find old friends or learn about what’s happening this weekend, it is also an incredible learning tool. Teachers can utilize Facebook for class projects, for enhancing communication, and for engaging students in a manner that might not be entirely possible in traditional classroom settings. Read on to learn how you can be using Facebook in your classroom, no matter if you are a professor, student, working online, or showing up in person for class. More…

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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

For example, I’d heard of EverNote but never got round to using it. This morning I’ve totally tidied up my life and post-it notes!

It’s a great service. I’d definitely recomend it!

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Both are worth a look!

E-learninglearning.com

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For years Lorrie McNeill loved teaching “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the Harper Lee classic that many Americans regard as a literary rite of passage. But last fall, for the first time in 15 years, Ms. McNeill, 42, did not assign “Mockingbird” — or any novel. Instead she turned over all the decisions about which books to read to the students in her seventh- and eighth-grade English classes

I remember reading “To Kill a Mockingbird” when I was aged about 14 or 15 – I will never forget it. I do believe that it is a “literary rite of passage” but this new idea is, excuse the pun, pretty novel. More…

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This digital-savvy generation of freshers is more likely to need a laptop at their lectures than a notepad, and they expect the tools they use in their personal life – such as blogs, social-networking sites and instant-messaging services – to be applied to the educational environment too. More…

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TwitterforTeachers.com is a great website for Teachers who want to Tweet in their classes. With lots ideas for Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Universities and Colleges as well as Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) on how to incorporate Twitter into lessons.

The EmergingEdTech Blog have a good post on 6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom.

Also, the Telegraph and the Guardian have articles on the New Primary School Curriculum in English Schools which is incorporating Twitter and Blogging.

Additionally, here are two good videos about Twitter Experiments in a University and a Secondary School.

For Academics, TwitterforAcademia has some unique ideas.

To see some interesting discussions on the subject you should read the comments and replies on David Warlick’s post on Twitter in the Classroom and also from Apace of Change’s EduBlog post on Promoting Twitteracy in the Classroom. They are both from 2007 but still very relevant today but some of the comments are very interesting.

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