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Doing Homework with a Search Engine Optimized Brain

Doing Homework with a Search Engine Optimized Brain

Published September 14, 2010 by Sebastian Waack

Mother: ”Turn off the iPod.” ”Stop with the video chat!” ”NO TEXTING while you’re supposed to be doing homework!” Son: ”MOM! Stop. I can concentrate…

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How to Do Research for Kids

Published July 30, 2010 by Sebastian Waack

In libraries and on the internet, you can find answers to almost any question you can think of. If you know how to do research,…

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Technology and Change

Published July 12, 2010 by Sebastian Waack

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMAZ_P5DqD8 Stewart Smith provides an interesting comparison: Take a doctor from the early 19th century and ask him to take over an operation in an…

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The Globalization of Reading and Writing

Published May 25, 2010 by Sebastian Waack

Schools are in the middle of a transitional process. The future of literacy has already begun. Globish is replacing English as a lingua franca and…

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With new technology, literacy evolves

With new technology, literacy evolves

Published May 6, 2010 by Sebastian Waack

It was Louis Braille, a student at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, who modified the French Army’s “night writing” in 1821 and…

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