Thanks to Mashable for including Curriki on its September 2009 post, Back to School: 10 Terrific Web Apps for Teachers. Curriki is amongst other great apps like Shmoop, Bookgoo and TeacherTube! Mashable, we very much appreciate your support!
For those readers that are unfamiliar with Mashable:
Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news. With more than 10 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web and offering social media resources and guides.
If you are a technology specialist, Web 2.0 aficionado, or newbie to the social web, make sure to add Mashable to your RSS reader!
Some Mashable education-related posts of note include:
- Back to School: 15 Essential Web Tools for Students—From note taking tools (Evernote), to collaborative documents (Google Docs), to citation tools (CiteMe), this is a list you won’t want to miss!
- What is the Future of Teaching?—“A recent study funded by the US Department of Education (PDF) found that on the whole, online learning environments actually led to higher tested performance than face-to-face learning environments.” Find out more details in this engaging post!
- Edmoto is a Twitter for Education—Want to use microblogging tools in your classroom, but concerned about security? Make sure to read this post!
- In the Future, the Cost of Education will be Zero—Use of online and social media tools can drastically reduce the cost of education. Read this article to learn how and why!
In the last article cited above, blogger Josh Catone writes:
“Knowledge is, as the economists say, a non-rival good,” wrote venture capitalist Brad Burnham in May. “If I eat an apple, you cannot also eat that same apple; but if I learn something, there is no reason you cannot also learn that thing. Information goods lend themselves to being created, distributed and consumed on the web. It is not so different from music, or classified advertising, or news.”
So in the future, the cost of education might be free, or nearly free, which could just level the playing field.
Josh and Brad—We like your thinking!
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www.Curriki.org
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