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Sunday, August 8, 2010

Education News: August 8, 2010

August 5 | While many traditional schools find ways to add on-line components to the curriculum, a PA virtual school goes the opposite direction, adding face-to-face activities for its youngest students to offer socialization opportunities lacking from wholly on-line options -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

August 4 | The way that students utilize computer labs is evolving, which may change the way that schools set them or even reduce the need for rooms and equipment dedicated to computer lab use -- Campus Technology

August 4 | A Web comic on the site xkcd creates buzz among developers of university Web sites, who react to its assertion that they have no idea what information the users of their sites want them to include on those sites -- Inside Higher Ed

August 3 | Researcher experiments with the use of iPads with K-8 science students and university-level science students, hoping to reduce the amount of paperwork used for lab reports and create "greener" classrooms -- Campus Technology

August 2 | FL magnet high school makes technology its base with a laptop for every student, wireless Internet service throughout campus, and a mix of classroom and on-line instruction -- Miami Herald

August 1 | Plagiarism is on the rise with Digital Age students who consider on-line info to be common knowledge if an author's name doesn't appear on the Web site and who don't understand the concept of intellectual property because their pop culture is rife with allusions to and sampling of others' work -- New York Times

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