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The top cable companies plus Microsoft and Best Buy have gotten behind an FCC-driven program to offer cheap broadband to poor households. No comment yet.
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Did you know that 14-17 year-old girls in the U.S. send an average of 100 texts each day? Check out this infographic for more interesting SMS stats and facts.
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Working with the same files in multiple places used to be a hassle. You'd have to make sure to bring the file with you, email it to yourself, or save it in a place you could get to it later.
Now, there are a number of online file storage and syncing services that will make your data available on as many computers as you like. Here's a look at five of the best of those services. Via Anthony Beal, Lorna Hardin
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These folks from Palm Beach County FL are doing a fantastic service for the whole education community by documenting every step along the way of their large-scale implementation of iPads across their very large school district. Kudos all around! -JL Via Dr. Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
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I know this is a commercial thing, but holy moly, turn your iPad into a desktop computer for 250 dollars? What will they think of next? -JL
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The NY Times is crowdsourcing ideas on the future of computing. Watch as this graphic representation populates with readers' ideas. Started Dec. 5, 2012. -JL
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A selection of Facebook Pages providing resources and dialogue focused on education and instructional technologies. Via Gust MEES
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More than 50 web 2.0 websites compiled by Laura Turner for upper elementary through grade 12 in science. Categories include: General Science, Anatomy, Astronomy & Space, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, and Physics. Each site briefly described and hyperlinked. -JL
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This week we spoke to Lisa Gillis, president of Integrated Educational Strategies, a nonprofit that helps schools and districts develop digital solutions to improving student learning. Gillis—who is at the forefront of blended learning, which combines face-to-face instruction with online learning tools—spoke with us about how digital platforms are being put in place around the country.
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Imagine walking into a public library filled with PlayStations, Wii game consoles and electric keyboards pumped up to maximum volume. Teenagers are munching on snacks, checking out laptops and slouching on sofas or beanbags. A carousel of computers sits in the middle, navigated to Facebook. That’s exactly how one enormous room on the ground floor of the Chicago Public Library’s main branch functions.
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Why should teachers use virtual field trips? Virtual field trips are an inexpensive way to integrate hands-on technology into the curriculum while maintaining student interest in the unit being studied. They offer a student-centered approach to instruction and diversify the teaching methods of content area instruction.
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The widening of college entry and completion rates between the rich and poor has been occurring steadily over the past 70 years, according to data released this month by researchers at the University of Michigan. The working paper, which uses data from the U.S. Census and the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, also notes a striking and substantial difference between the sexes in educational attainment, with women outpacing men in every demographic group. The largest gap between men and women in completing college is at the highest economic range, with women at a 13-percentage-point advantage over their male counterparts.
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Very well-reasoned argument by a business-based trainer about the damage done by our subject-based system of education in schools. Basically, Roger Schank argues that our fact-based school system robs learners of a sense of purpose to their learning and discourages them. He calls for a different approach. -JL |
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Nowadays, the digital version of print magazines and newspapers are becoming increasingly popular among publishers as they can save printing and postage costs as well as they are able to reach a whole new audience in the online world.
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An English teacher discovers digital literacy really works...
My class of demotivated learners – the same class who undertook the Sugata Mitra/Carol Dweck lesson earlier in the year – have been working on Machinarium. If you haven't heard of it yet it's a puzzle point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design (thank you Wikipedia) and, as a stimulus for lots of quality writing, it is simply wonderful. There is a free three level demo which my class have been working on but the downloaded paid version has thirty levels. I gave my lot a handful of lap tops and left them to it.
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Students with ASD can have ACCESS to information before, during, and after and therefore can COMMUNICATE/Talk about the information before, during, and after. Can be used for visual pre-teaching, providing schedules/changes in schedules, etc. Idea Flight is a new iPad presentation app which allows you to deliver your presentation to up to 15 other local iPads connected over WiFi. Via Robin Good, Communica8GH
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Easy is the operative word. Whether you are online to build a business or to make connections for other reasons, the easier you make it for people to find you and to get to know you, the more likely it is you will achieve the desired results. Here are 3 tools that are so simple to set up and use that even I use them. That being said, even though I am not using any of them to their full extent, they are still producing results for me.Blog post at : Easy is the operative word.
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Here is an interview with the school board member who took the standardized test in Florida that public school students are forced to take and declared it to be useless.
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There are so many new technologies and devices appearing on the education market every day now that it can become very difficult to determine where to spend your money, if indeed you should spend it at all. Before you make your next investment, ask yourself the following questions: RT @briankotts: 10 vital questions to ask before investing in classroom technology http://t.co/BrPWm7HZ /via @jdthomas7 #edchat #edtech #mlearning... Via Gust MEES
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“How do I engage my students?” is a question I hear all the time. Thankfully the top educators I know routinely agree with something Larry Rosenstock told me several years ago. Larry is the founder and director of High Tech High in San Diego, and his view on the role technology plays continues to be, “Students should be creators, not consumers.”
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40 web 2.0 math tools compiled by Laura Turner. Each item is briefly described and hyperlinked. -JL
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While on assignment in Japan recently, Blaine Harden sat down with Yujiro Hayashi, president of the Institute of National Colleges of Technology (Kosen), to talk about what the United States can learn from the Kosen system, why technical education is essential, what the future holds—and more.
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How much is a good school system worth? The Virginia Beach, Va., school district believes its own system is worth about $1.53 for every $1 spent from the 70,000-student district's operating fund. Not content with making an argument that good schools have an economic value that is unmeasurable, the district asked a university economist to calculate just what it brings both to the city and the Hampton Roads region in southeastern Virginia.
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The Disney Method is a parallel thinking technique which has some similarities with the Six Hats. It is particularly useful as a group analysis tool for an issue and it leads to idea generation and idea review. The team adopts four different thinking modes as outsiders, dreamers, realisers and critics.
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How the student newspaper staff members at Davis Senior High School covered the events that occurred in the aftermath of the pepper-spraying incident at U.C. Davis.
Excellent demonstration of use of participatory media by students -- participating in life, not preparing for life. -JL |
