Maggie Tsai

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  Maggie commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Tutorial: Two Uses of Technology to Improve Literacy and Critical Thinking

  Clay,
  
  Thanks for the mention and a great showcase of Diigo's capabilities.
  
  Cannot agree with you more!  Time is indeed changing: with the overwhelming amount of data available online, many innovative technologies allow you to do things way behind what can be done in a traditional setting. Bob Wolf, of The Boston Consulting Group, and a researcher on the use of internet in public education recently commented: “We believe that Web2.0 technologies will define and be defined by the skill requirements of the 21st century workforce. It is time to understand whether models have emerged for using these tools that are superior to traditional classroom teaching alone and what are the best approaches for the practitioner to implement them.”
  
  As a research tool, Diigo allows you to add persistent highlights and sticky notes to any web page, and to organize content by tags, lists and groups. In a sense, Diigo's web annotation technology makes the entire web writable, just like on paper, and much better in many ways!
  
  Prof Mike Wesch, a leading cultural anthropologist / researcher exploring the impact of new media on society and culture, commented:
  
  "Diigo turns reading and research into a social activity.  Conversations emerge right on the page and spill over into the classroom.  Students love it.  They not only engage with the material, they engage with each other."
  
  Among the web 2.0 technologies, Diigo seamlessly integrates all the functions necessary to work with such an increased flow of information and we believe that Diigo provides a unique collaborative research and learning platform that will be valuable in all aspects of information processing,  from discovering, digesting, organizing, sharing, collaborating to interacting, which are all essential skills for 21st centuary workforce.
  
  We've recently release the first phase of "Diigo Educator account"  www.diigo.com/education    We look forward to collaborating with leading educators (like you, Clay :-) to explore the full potential of Diigo as an educational tool. Going forward, we will continue to work with our education community to define the next phase of Diigo for Education.