Today’s Twitters on Tech/Ed

• poor word choice in the news http://tinyurl.com/25snvr do ppl really believe this nonsense? disappointing. now gingrich is a liar & a bigot!
• MarcoPolo named “Best site to download free lessons” in Edutopia’s 2007 Readers’ Survey!!! http://tinyurl.com/2ggpk5 Go Us!!!
• The Colbert Effect is all well & good http://tinyurl.com/2465bo but when am I going to finally find some Americone Dream in stock???
• another generic cyberbullying article http://tinyurl.com/37llckfav line:”1 kid may start a rumor…someone is sexually promiscuous or has a
  sexually transmitted disease, & it spreads overnight” which spreads? :)

• so what’s the wrong url? :) http://tinyurl.com/32bvar and why didn’t the teachers check the links ahead of time?
• student moons teacher http://tinyurl.com/2xxyls yes only danger is on the Internet. no problem with general behavior if you keep ’em offline
• claims s/w makes no diff in test scores. http://tinyurl.com/26olcj limits
  of study: few pgms, inexperienced teachers. disheartening. how about instead
  choosing the best s/w and exp. teachers? can’t remove pedagogy & prof dev from
  the equation & pretend it doesn’t make diff

• Cali HS teacher discusses proposed podcasting class http://tinyurl.com/2876m7 he shoulda put up a podcast on it :)
• new nclb tests for dyslexic et al. proposed http://tinyurl.com/yqtup5 why can’t we just get rid of all the tests and just teach?