A wonderful guide for teachers and library media specialists to work together, using technology, for enhanced student understanding. By Debbie Abilock, one of the great leaders of educational technology in school libraries. -JL
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From Vicki Davis: Lots of talk in technology circles about 6th grader Thomas Suarez an iphone programmer.His best selling app is Bustin Jieber a Justin Beiber "Whack a Mole." He shares how he learned how to program an app. How he taught himself the iPhone Software Development kit. He started an "app club" at school where any kid at school can come and learn how to design an app. He is part of an ipad pilot program. The students are asking teachers to help them design apps for education and the money is going into local education foundation.
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Ms. Brock is a leading advocate for and practitioner of using web 2.0 strategies in the community college classroom. These are links to a number of her excellent presentations. - JL
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The debate over the rules of content creation and curation continues to rage. We spoke to some experts for their opinion on the issues surrounding copyright and monetization.
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From David Andrade: One common question I’ve run across a lot these days in the office is how to convert a PDF file to Microsoft Word format (doc), Excel format (xls), or JPG picture format.
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From Education Week: The eighth annual Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning, released today at the Virtual School Symposium in Indianapolis, finds that single-district online programs—many of which include blended learning—are the fastest-growing segment of online education this year. (Single-district online programs are created by a district for the students in that district only.) Another area of growth is consortium programs, which usually involve several districts banding together to pool resources and share expertise. Part of the reason for this is the decrease in state funding available for state-level virtual education opportunities, the report says.
(Headline link is to the Keeping Pace website, from which the full report may be downloaded. -JL)
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How do advocates of digital learning know that students learn better via computers than more traditional methods?
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Blogger Elena Aguilar believes the Occupy movement is a call to equality and better funding in our public schools.
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A team of British researchers have discovered castle-like structures and uncovered several ancient "lost cities" in the Sahara in Libya's southwestern desert. There are more than 100 fortified farms and villages, researchers from the University of Leicester have found, thanks to satellite images.
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Gratuitous advice on how to prepare posters for scientific meetings, research conferences, and similar gatherings of nerds who want to share their stuff on really big pieces of paper.
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In an article in Voices of Urban Education, Linda Darling-Hammond and Richard Riley write that civic commitment to equal educational opportunity is in peril. Public education faces two significant challenges. The population of students that schools have traditionally underserved is growing rapidly at the same time there is greater pressure for improving outcomes for all students and for equipping them with the knowledge and skills for success in the 21st century.
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A friend of mine recently graduated with his BS degree in Finance. He had a great lead on a job at a high tech company and things felt promising. But the feedback he received was, "Spend some time developing your social network profile and then our recruiters will consider you." That's not something he learned in college. But, arguably, it should have been. Why? Because in a participatory culture, what others say about you is more important than what you say about yourself. Step up, folks. It's time to join in.
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In this webinar, community college instructor, Michelle Pacansky-Brock, will demonstrate how she used VoiceThread to flip her lecture-based art history class. The foundation of the “flipped classroom” model is a series of mobile lectures paired with formative assessments that students complete prior to coming to class. VoiceThread is a single, easy to use tool that masterfully delivers mobile content with voice, visuals, and video and invites students to participate in engaging assessment activities. |
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"For the first time in more than three centuries, Harvard and Yale will concurrently offer the same course — and its primary "text" won't be a book, but rather a video lecture series comprising the world's greatest thinkers and leading scholars."
"It's more important to learn how to ask the right questions than to find the right answers." Via k3hamilton, michel verstrepen
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The launch of the latest "Call of Duty" videogame has broken first day sales records to become the highest grossing entertainment launch in history, the publisher Activision has claimed.
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Curation is one of the most valuable services you can provide in a world flooded with information.
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Survey of online learning in higher education. The 2011 Survey of Online Learning reveals that the number of students taking at least one online course has now surpassed 6 million. Now nearly one-third of all students in higher education are taking at least one online course.
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From David Andrade: In this post, I’ll go through the various methods to connect your iPad or iPhone to your TV. I’ll also mention the advantages of using one method over another.
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We teach all pupils in the same classrooms. We don’t have really good, top schools and very poor, bad schools. We are quite good at giving special support to students with learning difficulties. About 25 percent of our pupils receive some kind of special support, but in regular classrooms—often the teacher has an assistant in the classroom. We also think it is very important that there aren’t too many pupils per teacher. We don’t have legislation limiting class size, but the average class size for all grades is 21. In first- and second-grade, it’s 19.
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Instead of resisting the urge to text, check Facebook or watch a YouTube video, Rosen says just do it. That’s right: Cure the tech disorder with a dose of more technology! Rosen calls it a tech break. But rather than taking a break from technology, you give yourself permission to embrace technology for a particular amount of time, be it one minute or 15. “It works amazingly,” he says.
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Schools are discovering that handhelds like iPod touch and iPad make great learning tools. In fact, handhelds can play a big part in project based learning. Not only do projects motivate students because they use exciting handheld technology, but they also lend themselves to student voice and choice.
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Welcome to the MathBench Biology Modules! These modules introduce students (and anyone else who's interested) to the mathematical underpinnings of what they learn in introductory biology courses. But unlike a textbook, the modules are not full of equations and proofs. Instead, we try to bring math to life using intuitive approaches, everyday situations, and even humor. The modules contain hundreds of interactive activities, games, and questions. They range from the relatively simple (what to do with division) to the relatively abstruse (discrete diffusion models).
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The Fund for Teachers provides funds for direct grants to teachers to support summer learning opportunities of their own design. Maximum award: $5,000. Eligibility: teachers who work with students in grades pre-kindergarten through 12, with a minimum of three years teaching experience, full-time, spending at least 50 percent of the time in the classroom at the time grants are approved and made. Deadline: varies by state.
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Paint unique pieces of art from photos. Psykopaint is a new kind of online painting application which selects the colors from an image and applies them to your brush automatically. It's really fun, easy, and totally unique!
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From the University of Wisconsin-Stout: The best tips and resources for using and locating high quality images to enhance learning, online teaching and training. |
