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Margaux Lange’s Plastic Body Series art jewelry collection utilizes salvaged Barbie doll parts in combination with sterling silver and pigmented resins. The series is a result of Lange’s desire to re-purpose mass produced materials into handmade, wearable art. It is meant to examine and celebrate her own as well as pop culture’s relationship with the icon known simply as: Barbie. 
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The Flex Academy—housed in the old San Francisco Press Club building near Union Square—is nearly two years into what one of its teachers calls an “interesting experiment,” where students do most of their coursework online, set up appointments with their teachers via email, and sidle up to their classmate’s cubicle if they need help with an algebra problem. “You have a lot of freedom here,” Chanel said. “But you still need to get your work done, or you won’t be successful.”
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By Thomas Friedman~NYT Education is a better economic driver than a country’s natural resources. Knowledge and skills have become the global currency of 21st-century economies, but there is no central bank that prints this currency. Everyone has to decide on their own how much they will print.” Sure, it’s great to have oil, gas and diamonds; they can buy jobs. But they’ll weaken your society in the long run unless they’re used to build schools and a culture of lifelong learning. “The thing that will keep you moving forward,” says Schleicher, is always “what you bring to the table yourself.
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TED-Ed is TED's new education initiative. After more than a year of dreaming and planning, our new educational initiative TED-Ed has been launched today.
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What do you do when you have an elaborate project, assignment, or paper that needs to be quickly organized? Do you fire up Microsoft Word and whip up an outline? Do you pull out a pen and paper and start sketching? What if you could have the best of both options with a free online tool? It’s called ‘mind mapping’ (“Mind Map” is a trademark of the Buzan Organization.) and it’s basically a fun and intuitive way to visually organize your thoughts.
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One of the newest and best of these online tools is Pinterest, which has quickly become a favorite among educators. Using online “pinboards” teachers can save everything from photos to blog posts in one easily accessible and usable place
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Ideas spread through TED, of course, aren't just ideas; they're branded ideas. Packaged ideas. They are ideas stamped not just with the imprimatur of the TED conference and all (the good! the bad! the magical! the miraculous!) that it represents; they're defined as well -- and more directly -- by the person, which is to say the persona, of the speaker who presents them.
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Revisit is a real–time visualization of twitter messages (tweets) around a specific topic. You can create your own twitter wall at a conference or an ambient display at your company or whatever use you come up with. In contrast to other twitter stream tools, it provides a sense of the temporal dynamics in the twitter stream, and emphasizes the conversational threads established by retweets and @replies.
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Fundamentally, our visual system is extremely well built for visual analysis. There’s a huge amount of data coming into your brain through your eyes; the optic nerve is a very big pipe, and it sends data to your brain very quickly. Once that data arrives at the brain, it’s rapidly processed by sophisticated software that’s extremely good at tasks such as edge detection, shape recognition, and pattern matching.
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Massive Open Online Courses are free, non-degree programs that have been drawing top professors and are seen as a tool for democratizing higher education.
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*Have loved this woman for a long time, especially one of her 1st books 'The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit' which was first published in 1984... Her new book, Alone Together, will not make the cover of WIRED, she is pretty sure. She is still excited about technology, but is deeply worried that we are letting it “take us places we don’t want to go.” She’s interviewed hundreds of people about their online habits, and she’s come to this conclusion: ”The little devices in our pockets are so psychologically powerful that they don’t even change what we do, they change who we are.”
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Great leadership means more teaching than telling, and there are 5 ways to make that teaching more effective.
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Technology is a tool that can be used to help teachers facilitate learning experiences that address the diverse learning needs of all students and help them develop 21st Century Skills. At it's most basic level, digital tools can be used to help students find, understand and use information. When combined with student-driven learning experiences fueled by Essential Questions offering flexible learning paths, it can be the ticket to success. Here is a closer look at three components of effectively using technology as a tool for digital differentiation.
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In what may be the best move ever in the comic book industry, Marvel Comics recently announced that it will soon be offering a free digital download code with every new comic priced at $3.99.
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Gmail is one of those rare things unanimously loved by everyday web users and tech-heads alike. The possibilities are endless. It can be anything from a simple email client to your central nervous system on the web.
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Today most movie posters go for flash over beauty, bombarding us with huge celebrity faces, typographic tricks, or slick graphic design. However, almost all movie posters were illustrated by hand, and even as recently as the ’80s, the posters for films like Blade Runner and Raiders of the Lost Ark – the kind of movies that today would warrant more flashy advertisements — sported lovely hand-drawn art. The poster for Moonrise Kingdom inspired Flavorwire to dig up a few more modern movie posters, released over the last few years, that are hand-drawn or illustrated.
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A step-by-step manual on how to build, design and use Google Forms.
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Apple’s tablet is making junkies of the upper middle class. Margaret Wente from the Globe and Mail...What makes my iPad so addictive? Human beings love novelty and stimulation, and the iPad provides an inexhaustible supply. Unlike sloths (but like orangutans, who also love to play with iPads), our boredom thresholds are very low. The downside is that our attention spans are regressing to the level of orangutans.
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Being able to recognize, interpret, and convey the significance of patterns in massive amounts of data is critical to organizational success. Leaders faced with the challenge of analyzing and communicating the meaning of complex information are being encouraged by popular business authors to communicate using narrative for maximum effect.
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You can inspire students to learn with simple demonstrations of your own curiosity. As a teacher, the most important asset one can teach students is a love of learning. Making a deliberate and transparent effort to continue ones own learning allows teachers to inspire their students to follow their footsteps.
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Here’s a series of macroshots of paint drying, crackling, and peeling. Artist Phyllis Toburen says she “conceptualized a new genre of abstract art” and calls them Sculptural Enamel Paintings, delighting in the how her paints “lift off the canvas in planes, simulating how the Earth formed during its various geologic eras,” resembling canyons and mountains. Let’s not get that deep. Let’s just get a little closer. Just watch as the colors change hue. See the paint pool and bubble.
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In our time of rapid digital evolution and ubiquitous personal learning technology, it's hard to keep track of how many things are changing. Every once in awhile, though, you get a glimpse of something more than just straightforward change. Now and then we come to realize just how much technology is affecting the lives of everyone regardless of creed, culture, or any type of prominent disability. Technology has empowered us all in ways we sometines don't consider.
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This collaborative blog and curated collection of free and open resources is produced by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, which is dedicated to analyzing and interpreting the impact of the Internet and digital media on education, civic engagement, and youth.
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We are living in a historical moment of transformation and realignment in the creation and sharing of knowledge, in social, political and economic life, and in global connectedness. There is wide agreement that we need new models of education suited to this historic moment, and not simply new models of schooling, but entirely new visions of learning better suited to the increasing complexity, connectivity, and velocity of our new knowledge society.
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A box of 64 crayons (no blacks or browns), a heat gun and you are all set to create your own over the rainbow.
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Margaux Lange helps Barbie find a new purpose. She creates wearable works of art from the parts of salvage dolls. I run into Barbie dolls at thrift shops all the time and can now look at this material and cultural figure in a different perspective. I wonder what I could make and what students could create with doll figures.