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Google is making us SMARTER!

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While Nicholas Carr is decrying the supposed effect Google is having on our brains, he stumbles through a quote by Nietzsche to a friend on the effect a typewriter was having on his writing. The intriguing part of the quote is “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.”

Educational Mashups 2

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Creativity often involves integrating two (or more) familiar entities in some felicitous way way. As the Internet becomes an operating system, mashups promise to be an important locus of creative development. At the recent NERCOMP SIG, "Educational Mash-ups 2," a number of presenters offered persuasive evidence that educators are already making good use of mashups, even if it is also clear that as a group we have only begun to explore what we can do with them. Over the course of the day (April 28, 2008 in Portsmouth, NH), the SIG presenters also gave participants the opportunity to reflect on the limits of what is and is not a "mashup" as well as on the question whether mashups will ever be something that the "masses" can create.

Online Study Group Admin Charged With Academic Misconduct

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Study groups may be a virtual trademark of the Ivory Tower – but a virtual study group has been slammed as cheating by Ryerson University.

First-year student Chris Avenir is fighting charges of academic misconduct for helping run an online chemistry study group via Facebook last term, where 146 classmates swapped tips on homework questions that counted for 10 per cent of their mark.

attached photo by ANDREW WALLACE/TORONTO STAR

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