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Jim Lerman
November 18, 2011 6:37 PM
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Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is an engaging multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning that encourages students to leverage the technology they use in their daily lives to solve real-world problems. The approach is collaborative and hands-on, asking students to work with other students, their teachers, and experts in their communities and around the world to develop deeper knowledge of the subjects students are studying, accept and solve challenges, take action, share their experience, and enter into a global discussion about important issues.
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Jim Lerman
November 18, 2011 6:23 PM
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Interesting technique to add even more media to a presentation through enlisting the aid of a "jockey" to display websites and information mentioned by the presenter, on a second screen. -JL
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Jim Lerman
November 18, 2011 6:02 PM
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Put this under the 'fun but very useful' category.
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Jim Lerman
from mlearn
November 18, 2011 5:52 PM
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Disclaimer: Apple has done such a good job of giving a Siri a persona that many times throughout this article I will refer to Siri as ‘her’ or ‘she’. Thanks for making me think my phone is a person, Apple.
This is the tale of a 2 hour a day commuter, 8 hour a day Fortune 500 company employee, and part time Lifehack editor living in the USA using Siri over the last 30 days. Enjoy.
It’s hard to believe that the iPhone 4S has already been out for a month. In this small amount of time we’ve seen iPhone 4S battery issues come and go, Siri outages, and data usage problems (that may not really be problems). But, just like every year, the iPhone proves to be one of the best selling smart phones of all time. It isn’t really surprising, is it?...
Via Martin Gysler, michel verstrepen
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Jim Lerman
November 18, 2011 5:40 PM
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As users embrace iPhones and other smartphones as cameras, attachments have made it easier to get professional-looking photos.
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Jim Lerman
November 18, 2011 4:35 PM
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Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of school administrators who responded to a recent survey said 1:1 computing classrooms where teachers act as a coach for students are the future of education, in a poll that looked at some of the changes, opportunities, and challenges that lie ahead for schools
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Jim Lerman
November 18, 2011 12:39 AM
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Home to 20 of Sylvia Tolisano's workshop and presentation resources and documents. A remarkable collection from a very generous ed tech leader. Try the 70 tools in 70 minutes. Thanks to Dennis Richards for the link.
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Jim Lerman
November 17, 2011 4:38 PM
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Foundational concepts from the point of view of Apple's Classrooms of Tomorrow-Today project.
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Jim Lerman
November 17, 2011 4:31 PM
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Nice discussion of these topics from the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow - Today (ACOT2) project.
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Jim Lerman
November 17, 2011 3:17 PM
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Arizona State requires yearlong student-teaching for all undergraduate education majors, who must prove mastery of teaching skills.
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Jim Lerman
November 17, 2011 1:37 PM
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Great 6 min. TED talk about a new group of high schools, called Studio Schools, starting to sprout in Great Britain. The schools strive to be 80% project-based and have a great early track record. -JL
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Jim Lerman
from aect
November 17, 2011 10:01 AM
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There's no doubt that technology brings with it some scary things. The scariest of them all is the uncertainty.
Via Dave Brown, Tim Boileau
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Jim Lerman
November 17, 2011 9:11 AM
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For IMF-level security for your sensitive accounts and passwords, we recommend Keeper. The program generates and stores strong passwords to keep your information safe and make every day feel like a mission. The program is like a safe for your mobile device. All of your information is stored behind U.S. military-approved encryption so only you have access wherever you go. For added security, Keeper deletes passwords after five failed entry attempts. But fear not! All information is stored in the cloud and can be recovered safely from your home computer.
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Jim Lerman
November 18, 2011 6:30 PM
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Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.
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Jim Lerman
November 18, 2011 6:18 PM
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Blogger Andrew Miller celebrates teachers who engage their students' cognitive abilities through creative methods.
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Jim Lerman
November 18, 2011 6:00 PM
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Electronics giant Texas Instruments (TI) and specialty retailer Brookstone have announced the Pocket Projector for iPhone 4, a case for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S that incorporates TI's Pico projector technology to offer on-the-go video projection.
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Jim Lerman
November 18, 2011 5:51 PM
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From talking robots to mobile apps that take some pain out of ER visits, health IT innovations abounded at Partners Healthcare's Connected Health Symposium. Take a look.
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Jim Lerman
November 18, 2011 4:37 PM
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Using part of a $5 million grant from the O’Sullivan Foundation, Khan is planning the next iteration of the Khan Academy, which will soon find its place in the physical world. This summer, he will run a camp for kids very similar to the program he co-organized at the We Teach Science camp in Silicon Valley two years ago.
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Jim Lerman
November 18, 2011 12:47 AM
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From the layman users to businesses, almost everyone is part of the online social ecosystem. Now, the education industry seems to be picking pace as things are getting social in schools and universities.
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Jim Lerman
from Learning, Teaching & Leading Today
November 18, 2011 12:17 AM
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This lists the most visited posts to appear on Free Technology for Teachers. This list is current as of July 1, 2011.
1. 47 Alternatives to Using YouTube in the Classroom
2. The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators
3. 77 Web Resources for Teachers to Try This Summer
4. 10 Ways to Create Comics Online
5. Historical Facebook - Facebook for Dead People
6. 11 Social Studies Resources to Try in 2011
7. 11 Science Resources to Try in 2011
8. My Fake Wall - Create Fake Facebook Walls
9. 11 Mathematics Resources to Try in 2011
10. Google Tools to Support Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
And there's much more...
Via Dennis Richards
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Jim Lerman
November 17, 2011 4:33 PM
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A good discussion of these topics, also from ACOT2.
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Jim Lerman
November 17, 2011 3:19 PM
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Rutgers professor Maurice Elias outlines strategies for developing your students' social emotional and reflection skills.
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Jim Lerman
November 17, 2011 1:55 PM
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Marion Brady's excellent work dealing with the creation of a more meaningful school experience for secondary students. -JL Connections: Investigating Reality is a free course of study designed primarily for adolescents and older students, working in small, cooperative groups. The program's overarching aim is expanding learner ability to "make sense" of reality, an aim we consider essential to the achievement of all other legitimate aims of a general education. Connections isn't a supplement to the traditional core curriculum. Used optimally, it's a replacement for the core for at least a year of an adolescent learner's schooling. The activities in Connections rely heavily on ordinary, first-hand user experience, require the use of all thought processes, progress slowly through increasing levels of conceptual (as distinct from textual) complexity, and, as is true in all attempts to make sense of experience, move constantly across and beyond arbitrary disciplinary boundaries.
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Jim Lerman
November 17, 2011 10:18 AM
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Over the past hundred years, researchers have reached a surprising degree of consensus about the predictable stages of creative thinking. It was Betty Edwards who first pointed out to me that the stages move back and forth between right and left hemisphere dominance:
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Jim Lerman
November 17, 2011 9:13 AM
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A tracking program for computers and smartphones that, in the event your device is stolen, will broadcast everything from location to screenshots to webcam pics directly to your inbox.You can also remotely trigger anti-theft operations that will change the system password, blare an alarm for 30 seconds, alert the thief he's being tracked, and clear your browser cache. Prey is free for up to two devices, but has a scalable monthly fee for as few as three and as many as 500. It runs on Windows, Mac, Ubuntu, iOS, and Android, and won't siphon off any of your CPU's valuable performance until it is activated.
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