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Ferriter, Bill – Educational Leadership, 2009
Digital tools, such as blogs and wikis, now make it easy for educators to embrace continual learning. Thousands of accomplished educators are now writing blogs in which they reflect on instruction, challenge assumptions, question policies, offer advice, design solutions, and learn together. All this collective knowledge is readily available for…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Writing Ability, Encyclopedias
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Harouni, Houman – Harvard Educational Review, 2009
Drawing on experiences in his social studies classroom, Houman Harouni evaluates both the challenges and possibilities of helping high school students develop critical research skills. The author describes how he used Wikipedia to design classroom activities that address issues of authorship, neutrality, and reliability in information gathering.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Research Skills, Social Studies, Encyclopedias