Volume 28, Number 2
March/April 2012
Star Apps Lift Learners Through the Clouds
by Dave Saltman
Would political rivals Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas tweet about their series of oratorical face-offs?
They just might.
Today, the commonplace prompt asking classes to write to a leader or historical or literary character is being displaced by online assignments that ask students to inhabit the world they’re studying using social networks anchored in the cloud—aka cyberspace.
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