Interesting video from the Texas Education Agency. Soft sell to the teacher of Texas I recoken.
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David McCandless, is a London-based author, writer and designer. He has written for The Guardian, Wired and others. These days he is an independent data journalist and information designer. A passion of his is visualizing information – facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, questions – all with the minimum of words. David's pet-peeve? ...pie charts. Love pie. Hate pie-charts. Hear hear! 
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Another lovely from Maria Popova... 'Explore' is about the evolving definition, process, and promise of learning. It’s a cross-disciplinary lens on what stimulates, what enriches, and what matters—an intellectual and creative incubator for cultivating your interests, and a discovery engine for things you didn't know you were interested in, until you are.
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Tilt is an internationally recognised traditional graffiti artist, originating from Toulouse in South France. A self declared "graffiti fetishist", he learned his trade in the streets and on trains as a youngster. In the time since he did his first tags on a skateboard ramp back in '88, his ensuing career has been nourished and influenced by extensive travel.
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In this video scene from the BBC series “Earthflight,” one of nature’s most fearsome aerial predators, the peregrine falcon, swoops down into a dense cloud of birds for what promises to be an all-you-can-eat starling buffet. The outcome may surprise you. The astonishing footage was shot in Rome, where millions of the birds flock every winter.
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Author Seth Godin's book list for 2012-so far... This is part of my regular series of books worth a read. There's a bumper crop coming along (as the book business struggles), and I picked a few I thought would resonate with you. Feel free to add your own selections as well.
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Students today have unprecedented access to information. According to educator Karl Fisch, in one week of reading The New York Times, an individual will encounter more information than people in the 18th century would have had access to during the entire course of their lives.
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Artist Vladimir Stankovic from Lapland, Finland~My work mostly deals with surreal and fantasy subjects. I draw inspiration from my childhood memories, stories I used to read, fairy tales, folk tales…Also, nature and its mysteries, life and death, are the subjects that are always tickling my imagination.
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Zim and Zou are a great, French design firm that specializes in really intricate and colorful paper sculptures. Their work is really refreshing in an overly digitized industry.
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A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course where the participants are distributed and course materials also are dispersed across the web. This is possible only if the course is open, and works significantly better if the course is large. The course is not a gathering, but rather a way of connecting distributed instructors and learners across a common topic or field of discourse. It is an absolutely brilliant concept and I am in the process of finding a my own MOOC to join!
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Since 2007, Michael Wesch, a Kansas State University anthropologist, has released a series of viral videos interrogating the ways in which new web technologies shape human communication and interactions with information. First came The Machine is Us/ing Us, then Information R/evolution and An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube. Now he’s back with a new video called “Rethinking Education,” a montage that pulls together sound bites of thought leaders describing how technology is altering the broader educational landscape…
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British artist Pery Burge photographs ink, glass and natural objects with a macro lens. Using nature as her inspiration, Burge’s process involves using a Canon EOS 500D digital camera with EF100mm F2.8 macro lens to photograph ink flowing through water.
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Take a look at this infographic with some surprising stats courtesy of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation via Socrato. You can see that the vast majority of teachers agree that technology helps in the learning process. According to this study, teachers agree digital learning tools help improve the ability to learn.
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Steven W. Anderson is a school district instructional technologist from Winston-Salem, NC. and his words are so spot on... "Technology exclusively can't change learning. You can't put 30 iPads (or Chromebooks, laptops, IWB, or whatever type of technology you can think of) in a classroom and in an instant learning gets better. It just does not happen that way. It takes a lot of stepping back, looking at the why's and the how's and deciding on the direction to go. And even before devices hit the hands of kids, there has to be lots and lots and lots of PD on how access to these tools in the classroom changes the way we teach. Lets just slow down, and think..."
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Skype in the classroom is a free, global community to help teachers and students. Find experts, get inspiration and collaborate on projects.
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Brian Dettmer uses outdated books, dictionaries and encyclopedias and carves them into incredible sculpture artworks. With the help of knives, tweezers and surgical tools, he produces some of the finest book sculptures I have seen in a while. Dettmer is originally from Chicago, where he studied at Columbia College. He currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. His latest exhibition-Textonomy @ Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, February 2nd – March 17th, 2012
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Author Seth Godin's manifesto on education... The economy has changed, probably forever. School hasn't. School was invented to create a constant stream of compliant factory workers to the growing businesses of the 1900s.
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Somewhere between kids’ intuitive social savvy and their online behavior lies an opportunity for both parents and educators to teach responsible digital citizenship, and there are plenty of organizations dedicated to this task alone. The artilce cites several excellent source on teaching good digital citizenship including Define the Line, a project out of McGill University.
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Official site of Dr. Seuss and the Cat in the Hat featuring games, printable activities, the complete illustrated character guide, information about creator Theodor Geisel and his books for kids, parent and teacher resources, and a photo gallery.
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In Maggie Carberry's words~ I find that repetition in architecture facilitates daydreaming much like a mandala facilitates meditation. Although meditation is a deliberate act, while daydreaming tends to be accidental, both allow you to take a break from the noise of the world in order to free your mind and ultimately refocus.
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Boards of Canada (commonly abbreviated BoC) are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin . They have released several works with little advertising and few interviews, while also having an elusive and obscure back-catalogue of releases on their self-run Music70 label. Boards of Canada's music is reminiscent of the warm, analogue sounds of 1970s media and contains themes of childhood, nostalgia and the natural world. Mike and Marcus have mentioned the documentary films of the National Film Board of Canada, from which the group's name is derived, as a source of inspiration.
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Sourcing inspiration from 15th Century German map making and Indian miniature paintings, Andrew Schoultz's frenetic imagery depicts an ephemeral history bound to repeat itself. In his mixed-media works, notions of war, spirituality and sociopolitical imperialism are reoccurring themes, which shrewdly parallel an equally repetitive contemporary pursuit of accumulation and power.
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Watch the video-The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore offers a modern tribute to an old world. Made with an animation style that blends stop motion with computer animation and traditional hand-drawing, the silent film pays homage to a bygone era when elegantly printed books inhabited our world. The app is pretty special too.
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Throughout Noel Myles's work there is a consistent aim to extend the still photographic image beyond the single moment and the static viewpoint. The
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