Technology and Students – Infographic

I love the great infographics that are being produced. This is another one that I thought I could use to begin a discussion with the students at my school. Many of our boys relate to visual stimuli and I think they would respond well to this one. I am trying to get them to think about how they learn and study best so this is quite timely.

This infographic is from a post entitled “Using Twitter Improves Students’ Grades, And Other Surprising Tech Usage Facts” written by Alyson Shontell on Aug. 10, 2011, in Business Insider

 

Via: OnlineEducation.net

Veropedia: Wikipedia articles verified.

Launched in October last year “Veropedia is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia’s content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited. The result is a quality stable version that can be trusted by students, teachers, and anyone else who is looking for top-notch, reliable information.“

 

A team of “experts” take hold of some of the more volatile material on Wikipedia, controlling it, to try to make the information more stable and reliable. The articles must meet a fairly strict set of standards: no “citation needed” tags, no dead external links, no disambiguation and no fair use images. Although the articles are vetted by “academic experts,” though site organizers say it is not an academic driven outfit. Wikipedians will still write the articles. This seems to be more like the old editorial style of years past, done to allow readers to have more trust in the veracity of the information in the articles. Veropedia is supposed to help improve the quality of Wikipedia because contributors must improve an article on Wikipedia, fixing up all the flaws, until a quality version can be imported to Veropedia.