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At the conclusion of last summer's study, just about everyone said that they'd incorporate something from the seminar into their teaching. So, give us an update. What's changed? Log in to post your thoughts as a comment to this page!

"Metasurfing" is a great information literacy activity for students. Asking students to develop a rubric for, say, an effective political campaign web site, and then setting them loose to apply those rubrics (either by judging existing sites or creating their own) is like killing two birds with one stone. More than that--not only are they working toward both content and information literacy outcomes, they're doing both within a combined context that lives in the realm of higher order thinking skills.

Think back to the days before the Internet became mainstream. Though it feels like lifetimes ago, I'm referring to 1994.

Pop quiz: who nearly committed political suicide that year by suggesting that the government provide tax credits to disadvantaged Americans purchasing laptops and Internet access?