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Creating Critical Readers: A Too-Easy Diigo-Google News-Student Blogging Project
Even if my recent “Politics Around the Web” posts have turned you off, I hope you noticed that they are a model of a very simple activity for any number of classes – current events, politics, science and math news, more – that want students to read and exhibit critical thinking about what they read. I say “simple” because all it takes is a Google News account, a Diigo account, and a blog.
This screencast shows you how it works, compliments of screencast-o-matic and Blip.tv:
