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You just got your hands on a Google+ invite -- but what next? Check out these 10 tips to get you started on Google's new social network. Via Jason Epstein No comment yet.
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Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer? Via Jason Epstein
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Gamestar Mechanic is a game and community about playing, designing and sharing games. The browser-based game taps into the natural passion for kids to play, make and share games and is built on leading pedagogical research in the areas of systems thinking, 21st century digital literacy skills and STEM learning.
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For a greater global payoff, writes Joseph Piro, give the science, technology, engineering, and math acronym an A—for the arts.
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For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it.
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I wanted to post a list that talked about how to "use" technology in the classroom, but I found myself revising that word "use" to the more general word, "model." The reason I did this is because so many teachers believe that if students aren't actively sitting in front of the computer screen themselves, then clearly technology is not being used in the classroom. Via Jennifer Hootman
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When Borders began liquidating its 399 stores this summer, nearly 11,000 employees lost their jobs.
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Many states spend much more money on incarceration than they do on higher education. New Jersey spends more to house a prisoner per year than it costs for a year at Princeton.
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In the latest #GlobalLearning blog, Anthony Jackson defines 4 main capacities that comprise global competence
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How is the definition of "reading" changing, and what does it mean for schools and students? A categorized list of recent Times pieces on this broad topic, with scores of ideas for classroom inquiry.
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Nice simple corkboard. Works well. Wish it could accept live hyperlinks. Probably coming soon. - JL
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Compact, yet comprehensive guide to getting started with digital storytelling. From the University of Houston. Well done! - JL |
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Evernote is a great application for educators. It’s usefulness can range from planning a course to delivering a lesson plan to capturing feedback after class. Via Jason Epstein
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Kevin Kelly explains that technology enables us to enjoy more possibilities, choices, and opportunities and is important to all fields and careers. He assure... Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge, crutherford
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Bad with Names? Namerick is an iPhone app that improves your memory of people's names using repetition and mnemonics modeled from memory 'athletes' and studies of the human memory. APP IS FREE FOR 3 DAYS -- WATCH THE VIDEO! DID I SAY THE VIDEO IS GREAT?
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The hallmarks of the artistic process are the same skills that schools hope to impart on 21st-century classrooms, and more should be made of that connection, Bruce D. Taylor writes.
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This chat addressed what kinds of professional development are available to hybrid educators, as well as the key factors they need to know to be successful in the online and hybrid classroom.
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"...I thought I’d share a very handy iPad application I’ve been using to annotate, correct and edit PDF versions of my own writing recently: iAnnotate PDF." Via John Evans, Jennifer Hootman
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From Maria Popova
Education is something we’re deeply passionate about, but the fact remains that today’s dominant formal education model is a broken system based on antiquated paradigms. While much has been said and written about education reform over the past couple of years, the issue and the public discourse around it are hardly new phenomena. Today, we round up the most compelling and visionary reading on reinventing education from the past century.
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This infographic provides a timeline for the most important electronic advances since the early 1970's. It shows how electronics have evolved.
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Digital media instructor Daphne Bradford turned an after-school technology enrichment program into a valuable lesson for retired community members.
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The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content. Teachers can use or adapt our lessons across subject areas and levels. Students can respond to our Opinion questions, take our News Quizzes, learn the Word of the Day, try our Test Yourself questions, complete a Fill-In or read our Poetry Pairings. Teachers may even sign up to have lesson plans delivered by email. Everything is free.
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In this post, 4 screencasting apps for the iPad are reviewed: ReplayNote, Explain Everything, ScreenChomp, and ShowMe. Via Kathleen Cercone |
