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Tue, 13 May 2008 13:04:27 -0000

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A listing of social networks used in educational environments. Please add to this list (alphabetical by category and within categories).

Tags: education ning professional development socialnetworking technology web2.0

Posted by: sarahhanawald

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:54:52 -0000

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If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. Starting with the Second World War a whole series of things happened--rising GDP per capita, rising educational attainment, rising life expectancy and, critically, a rising number of people who were working five-day work weeks. For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage something they had never had to manage before--free time.

It's better to do something than to do nothing.

We're going to look at every place that a reader or a listener or a viewer or a user has been locked out, has been served up passive or a fixed or a canned experience, and ask ourselves, "If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen?"

Tags: future shirky technology

Posted by: scmorgan

SIMILE | Exhibit 2.0

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:56:00 -0000

Tags: education technology web2.0

Posted by: sarahhanawald

Study: Teens See Disconnect Between Personal and School Writing : April 2008 : THE Journal

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:23:41 -0000

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Study: Teens See Disconnect Between Personal and School Writing

by Dave Nagel

Extra Credit
Student Writing and Internet Usage

According to the Pew/National Commission on Writing study, 50 percent of teens write something for school every day. Ninety-four percent use the Internet for research for their school assignments at least occasionally, and 48 percent sad they use the Internet for research at least once per week.

More Information

Study: Writing, Technology and Teens (PDF)

--D. Nagel

Students see a distinction between the writing they do for school and the writing they do in their personal lives. While the vast majority of 12- to 17-year-olds (85 percent) engage in some form of electronic writing--IM, e-mail, blog posts, text messages, etc.--most (60 percent) don't consider this actual writing. That's one of the findings from a study released last week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the National Commission on Writing for America’s Families, Schools and Colleges.

Tags: english teaching technology web2.0 writing

Posted by: sarahhanawald

WebTools4u2use » Webtools4U2Use

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:47:28 -0000

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The purpose of this website is to provide a place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them. Hundreds of free and inexpensive web tools are available for school library media specialists to use that can make us more productive, valued, and, perhaps, more competitive.

Tags: library technology web2.0

Posted by: scmorgan

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Framework for 21st Century Learning

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:54:47 -0000

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The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has developed a unified, collective vision for 21st century learning that can be used to strengthen American education. The key elements of 21st century learning are represented in the graphic and descriptions below. The graphic represents both 21st century skills student outcomes (as represented by the arches of the rainbow) and 21st century skills support systems (as represented by the pools at the bottom):

Tags: 21stcentury education ioi technology

Posted by: sarahhanawald

The Tempered Radical: "There's Nothing Like" Thinking. . .

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:44:05 -0000

Tags: technology thinking

Posted by: scmorgan

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . War of the Worlds | PBS

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:17:47 -0000

Tags: cringely education technology

Posted by: scmorgan

Home | Laptop Institute

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:59:51 -0000

Tags: conference independent technology

Posted by: scmorgan

Nobles - School / Teaching With New & Emerging Technologies: Frameworks, Strategies, and Examples

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:13:37 -0000

Tags: conference technology

Posted by: scmorgan