Overview

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Overview

• Current Research
• Statistics
• Strategies
• Literacy
• Problem-based learning
• Translators
• Promoting social justice

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Research

• Access less of a factor but still a problem
• Pedagogical divide
• Standards
• Teacher training
• Urban/rural schools
• Toward Digital Equity (Solomon)

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Data and Statistics

• Use data to educate
• nces.ed.gov
• Consortium for School Networkingwww.cosn.org
• North Central Regional Education
  Laboratorywww.ncrel.org
• Bureau of Labor and Statisticswww.bls.gov

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Strategies

• Literacy
• Problem-Based, Project-Based Learning
• Translators
• Promote Social Justice

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Literacy

• California Learning Resource Network
  www.clrn.org(search by standards, subject,
  grade, etc.)
• Critical Thinking Skillscriticalthinking.org
• Web literacytapateach.org

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Problem-Based Learning

• Buck Institute for Education www.bie.org
• George Lucas Educational Foundationwww.glef.org
• Constructivism StudySouth Central RTEC
• WebQuests

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Translators and Software

• Google
• Altavista (babelfish)
• Multicultural softwareclrn.org

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Promote Social Justice

• Virtual Field Trips Getty Artsednetwww.getty.edu
  /artsednetSmithsonianwww.smithsonian.org
• American Memory Projectmemory.loc.gov
• Digital Divide Networkdigitaldivide.net
• Teach social justice