Teaching with Wikipedia. A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network - The Digital Campus. By Derek Bruff Last fall, for my first-year writing seminar on the history and mathematics of cryptography, I posted my students' expository-writing essays on our course blog.
The assignment had asked students to describe a particular code or cipher that we had not already discussed—how it came to be, how it works, how to crack it, who used it. They described more than a dozen codes and ciphers. It seemed a shame that I might be the only one to read such interesting content, so I asked the students to read and comment on two papers of their peers.
The course blog provided an ideal platform for that task. 1020 Mobile Learning. Folks: The posting below looks at several aspects of the use of mobil devices in the classroom.
It is from Chapter 33, Mobil Learning in the book, Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis. Published by Josey-Bass A Wiley Imprint 989 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1741 [www.joseybass.com]. Copyright 2009 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.