The cores of both of these services have theories of action that emphasize literacy as we know it now. Both founders think that your students might find their services useful for learning, reading, doing research, managing information, and knowing the world.
Learn more about their online services that are being made available for free to schools. See if there might be a place for them in your work with students. Test your theories of literacy in 2012 next to those embedded in these new learning tools What search tools do you think might enable your students to engage in "safe and personalized learning?" (InstaGrok) What tools do you think might help your students to "understand and actually put the big ideas to work?" (Readitfor.me).
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We talked about games and new literacies on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers.
Juan Rubio from Global Kids’ Online Leadership Program
joined us to talk about a project he is doing with students after
school in the NYC Public Libraries to develop "a geo location based game
using mobile technology to explore local history and global issues with
middle school students from the Bronx.”
We talked about games and new literacies on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers.
Juan Rubio from Global Kids’ Online Leadership Program joined us to talk about a project he is doing with students after school in the NYC Public Libraries to develop "a geo location based game
using mobile technology to explore local history and global issues with
middle school students from the Bronx.”
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