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Thoughtful piece reminding us that it is what we do in schools every day that makes a difference in the lives of students...or not. It is up to us to strive for small victories every day. -JL
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Kevin Buran is a 6th and 8th grade science teacher in Carmel CA (and also an Evernote Ambassador). In this blog post, Kevin talks about several clould based web services and focuses on the specific attributes of Evernote, for him as a teacher. As a refugee from the late lamented Google Notebook, I can attest to Evernote's usefulness too. - JL
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One hour video: "Peter Drucker, the founder of the discipline of modern management, asserted that making knowledge workers productive was the key to economic survival for the developed economies. Though knowledge workers use their minds to make a living, are they ever taught to use their minds more effectively? This webinar discusses my decade-old mindfulness program at the Drucker School of Management designed to teach managers to manage themselves." Via Howard Rheingold
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Augmented Reality may change how your kids see the world - literally!
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The Nobel peace laureate and human rights campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi spoke yesterday in a BBC lecture of the vital role played by communications technology in modern democratic uprisings and said she was not morally opposed to the use of violence in exceptional circumstances.
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"Storybird is a tool for creating digital books using image galleries and text. You do need to create a FREE account if you want to save and publish your book. The idea behind this tool is that you select an artist or theme and then create a story using the images provided."
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The Indiana Department of Education is backing trials to see if the model can work in the state’s public schools. John Keller, the department’s assistant superintendent for technology, says state officials want Indiana “to be seen as a place where innovation happens in schools,” and is looking seriously at the flipped classroom as part of a broader push towards that goal. Via Nik Peachey
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The New Age of Thinking Unthink...Unthink appears to be designed to appeal to those frustrated with social networks that compromise their privacy and treat them as a commodity. Very interesting concept of a new, free, simplified social network that the user controls as she/he sees fit. Definitely new. -JL
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For every vocabulary word you know on FreeRice, they’ll donate 10 grains of rice under the guidance of the United Nations’ World Food Programme. Since rice doesn’t magically appear, companies advertising on FreeRice pay for every grain. Let your students show what they know and help feed the world. Knowledge is power.
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One response to anything new is to attempt to assimilate it - to fit it into existing models. While it could be argued that Education has attention blindness to technology I think the problem wit...
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Book review here: http://worldisopen.com/review_bob_wadholm.pdf |
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Resources from YES! Magazine and NY Times Learning Network will familiarize your students with Occupy Wall Street.
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One of the newest and most innovative pieces of educational technology has just won big. ClassDojo, an app used for classroom behavior management, won the $75,000 top prize at NBC Education Nation in the Innovation Challenge.
I haven't been able to try this app, but the fact that it won this challenge is quite impressive. See the video of their pitch.
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The Dallas Independent School District is using cloud technology to reduce aggressive behavior and bullying.
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A powerful tool to create and show interactive presentations on your iPad. Import existing presentations as a PDF or images, integrate videos and set hyperlinks for a truly touch-enabled, mobile presentation experience. Via Baiba Svenca
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I (Steve Wheeler) was labelled a 'radical' yesterday by one of my colleagues. Well, bless. I hadn't thought about myself in those terms before, because what I do is instinctive and what I write about seems to be absolutely normal to me. But standing back from me and trying to look in from the outside, I suppose some might think I was slightly out of left field, or that some of my ideas were idealistic. Whatever.
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Chartle is a powerful and non-complicated site for creating charts and graphs. The user interface is easy to use and even younger students can quickly create graphs. It also works great on interactive whiteboards. No account registration is required. The final product can be pasted into a document or embedded in a website.
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"I want to talk to you briefly about perception."
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Physion is a Physics simulation software for creating interactive physics simulations and educational experiments. Via Gust MEES
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Hundreds of lessons as well as opportunities to connect with teachers. All free; sponsored by SMART Technologies. -JL
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When Firefox hangs, it stops responding to your clicks and keystrokes and doesn't seem to be doing anything. Also, the mouse becomes a spinning wait cursor when it's over the Firefox window. This article gives you solutions to Firefox hangs depending on when they happen.
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There are few good ways to share a slide deck and video of a presentation after it's given. 9Slides hopes to change that, with a platform for syncing videos and slide decks that can be watched simultaneously in a web browser or on mobile devices. |
