כמובן שאת הבלוג הזה צריכים לקרוא

Even though teachers have lectured about the evils of plagiarism since 5th grade, I sometimes still find myself staring at the computer screen, unsure on whether I can copy my AP Environmental Science textbook’s definition of biodiversity or if I needed to paraphrase. Do I even know how to paraphrase that term when the textbook’s definition seems to leave no room for a more direct explanation? Teachers always tell students to reword things they write, but what if the student can’t think of another way to reword what they want to say? In this incidence, sheer laziness isn’t the factor behind it.

I should actually be working on my AP Human Geography project right now.

More than the gushing supporters, who gave us awards before we even launched.

What will be interesting to watch will be how a group of kids, basically high-school kids, step up and talk about the absolutely critical ideas that will require them to think beyond their years.

The much larger idea that is embedded in Students 2.0 is that students are about to become much more involved in how they are educated. What happens when they figure out that these tools that they understand, that they’ve grown up with, can be used to make a difference, to create pressure, to put forth a collective will?