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The Official YouTube App Finally Goes Universal -- AppAdvice

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Nearly two months after its launch, the standalone YouTube app is finally universal, plus contains a couple of other obvious and basic features.

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John Seely Brown on Motivating Learners (Big Thinkers Series)

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Innovative thinker John Seely Brown, known for his ideas for merging digital culture and education, shares lessons educators can learn from surfers, gamers, and artists on how passion and competitive hunger can drive intrinsic motivation.

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Five-Minute Film Festival: Twitter in Education

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Twitter has become a powerful tool for teaching and learning. VideoAmy offers up a playlist of videos that will help you learn to use the social platform well in a variety of ways.

 

 

 

Read more, a MUST:

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/film-festival-twitter-education

 


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Rob Furman's curator insight, December 18, 2012 9:50 AM

 Twitter has become a powerful tool for teaching and learning. VideoAmy offers up a playlist of videos that will help you learn to use the social platform well in a variety of ways.

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Teen Anti Cyber Bully Campaign Goes Viral

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OSSEO, MN-- Seventeen-year-old Kevin Curwick, an Osseo High School football team captain, is using Twitter to fight cyber bullies and compliment his classmates, but much to his surprise, now people across the world are returning the favor.

 

"A nice word can go a long ways," he said. "We are a society looking for the positive."

 

Curwick has heard from people from Iowa to Connecticut, and from Australia to England ever since he came forward behind the anonymous Twitter account, @OsseoNiceThings.

 

He created the "nice" Twitter account to lift spirits of classmates that had been bullied on another Twitter page, but remained anonymous when tweeting things like "great artist but even better friend", "Osseo's rawest rapper", and "puts others before herself."

 

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http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=241026

 


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Online Citizenship | Common Craft

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Dennis T OConnor's curator insight, March 6, 2:58 PM

This is great way to build conceptual understanding of digital citizenship! 

Ness Crouch's curator insight, March 6, 6:39 PM

Very useful and interesting. Though this has a 'watermark' it is still a valuable video and would be interesting to share with staff and students.

Helena Andrade Mendonça's curator insight, March 7, 4:55 PM

Os videos da CommonCraft são interessantes. Alguns tem a versão em português e há vídeos de diversas áreas. Vale a pena dar uma olhada.

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6 Great Videos on Teaching Critical Thinking

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What we have for you today is a great series of videos on critical thinking. As a teacher, you can use these videos with your students to start a discussion on what it means to think critically and introduce them to the concept of logical fallacies. The videos are animated in such a way that your students will find it easy to grasp hard concepts .Enjoy


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Mediajockeys's curator insight, December 12, 2012 3:47 AM

Kritisch denken en reflecteren, te weining mensen doen het. Leer het eerst zelf en draag het dan over. Mooi gemaakt.