We often use new technological tools simply to continue former practices in ways that are easier, quicker, or otherwise more efficient. Further, the relation between new tools and their possible social meanings is uncertain; at times the changes that technologies permit us escape us, or occur years after the creation of the tools themselves. Although there is currently a very large educational presence on the web, much of this material reproduces our traditions in education to celebrate the educator's experience over the student's, to place the work of the teacher or the institution at the center. The examples that follow, however, foreground student experience and knowledge constructions, exemplifying the ways in which the web can be used to contribute to progressive, student-centered pedagogies.
Blackburn High School
Blackburn, Australia
Summary: A rare, student-centered school site with multiple representations of student work and experience.
Key Words and Phrases: multi-media, student-centered, student performance, student publication
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Job Search and Employment Opportunities: Best Bets from the Net
Summary: Best Bets is a graduate student project that provides a major public service for job-seekers, and at the same time suggests the potential for student work and learning that goes beyond more common notions of "publication."
Key Words and Phrases: critical information review, public service, student publication, student work-learning-audience relations, resource design
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