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By spring, nearly all of Brown?s students -- including Baker -- had passed the OGT and demonstrated growth in Lexile reading test scores. In between jobs at fast-food restaurants and school, several were making serious plans to become teachers, underwater welders, construction managers and politicians. What happened? Technology. Not just any technology, but tools that look and feel like MySpace or Facebook -- integral social networks for most American teens. Using Read 180, a reading intervention program, Brown facilitates differentiated learning for reading and writing through a "wiki," a collection of Web pages and other documents that can be created and edited individually or collectively online. -
1voteWeller says new Web tools (such as wikis and video-capture technology) put power in the hands of students, but traditional learning-management systems (such as Moodle and Blackboard) emphasize central control by the learning institutions
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1voteWhat, then, is to be made of Curriki.org, a nonprofit group originally part of Sun Microsystems that likewise takes content contributions from the public at large, but whose goal is to teach educators themselves how to teach?
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