The Learning Doesn’t Stop
I love that, because of technology, I was able to start this conversation with my students in the midst of summer vacation:
A message to all members of Cougar Pride:
Mrs. Cunningham
I know that most of you are not checking this site over the summer, but I can’t stop being your teacher just because school is out. So here goes:
If you get a minute, stop by this site: Dear CNN: Please Check Twitter for News about Iran. The call for change in Iran is being led students not much older than you guys, and they are sharing their struggle using a lot of the technology we have experimented with in class. Just a reminder that you really do have the power to change the world in which you live.
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For more information on Twitter and the upheaval in Iran, try the following:
- What the Iran Protests Suggest from the Teach Paperless blog
- Social Networking Changes Everything from the School Library Journal
- How Iran’s Hackers Killed Big Brother from the Daily Beast
- State Department to Twitter… from AC 360 blog
- Twitter on the Barricades… from the New York Times
- How Cellphones, Twitter, & Facebook Can Make History from Clay Shirky’s TED Talk
