How do you identify and avoid spreading misinformation, myths, and urban legends on the internet?
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How to Identify and Avoid Spreading Misinformation, Myths, and Urban Legends on the Int... - 6 views
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employ a healthy level of skepticism for what you're reading, watching, or otherwise consuming—on the internet or elsewhere
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Snopes is "the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation"—and for the most part, it actually does live up to that goal.
The Finland Phenomenon: Learning from the new Tony Wagner film | Connected Principals - 1 views
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Finnish system is praised extraordinarily highly for its global success, and yet students don’t work terribly hard, have many choices, use technology creatively, enjoy the integration of the arts, and learn in a culture which emphasizes depth over breadth and less is more.
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Students are shown researching and collaborating online in their studies, and many classrooms are shown with a wide array of technological units, not just computers. Students use wikipedia and facebook when researching very current topics, and Wagner explains that there is a culture of trust that is extended to students in their technology usage.
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A particularly inspiring moment comes when Wagner reports stumbling across a project at one school, the “Innovation Camp,” in which teams of students are given 26 hours to come up with a new product or service.
iOS 5, iCloud and Education: To what degree will iBenefit? - iPads in Education - 0 views
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Typically in a school scenario that will be when they are left charging overnight in a cart. Score one for IT administrators.
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AirPlay mirroring will now allow anyone with an iPad 2 to project whatever is on their screen wirelessly to any HD television connected to an Apple TV. For those that aren’t familiar with Apple TV, frankly you’re in the majority. There haven’t been many compelling reasons to consider purchasing this $99 device … until now.
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iMessage: OK, so let’s just call it Blackberry Messaging for iOS devices and leave it at that.
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CENTER OF PHONE ETIQUETTE - 2 views
Avoid Information Overload! Learn to Aggregate, Filter, and Curate | Inside Online Lear... - 6 views
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it is important for you to stay current in your field of study and pursuit of knowledge and skills
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you can end up with an overloaded stream very quickly and there's no end in sight!
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Let's start with a few definitions. Maybe you've encountered these terms somewhere in your reading already – aggregating, filtering, and curating have become popular ways to describe the tasks important to the efficient management of information.
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40+ Classic Pinhole Photos - 3 views
Branding BYOD: On/Off| The Committed Sardine - 0 views
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Likewise, it is up to learning managers to determine when to ask students and teachers to turn their devices off; that is, to unplug so we can talk, think, and collaborate face to face. On/Off. It's balanced. It's healthy.
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The fact that their technology is so invisible to them is their Achilles Heel. Because they don't see it, they don't think to question it.
Reflections from the Scholastic iPad event - On EdTech and Smartboards: Are w... - 1 views
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"Today I had the pleasure of attending an event in the Scholastic Administr@tor "Live Tech Series." The event focused on iPad implementation in schools and the Common Core set of academic standards. "
Interviews - Clifford Nass | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS - 0 views
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We were absolutely shocked. We all lost our bets. It turns out multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. They're terrible at ignoring irrelevant information; they're terrible at keeping information in their head nicely and neatly organized; and they're terrible at switching from one task to another.
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One of the biggest points here I think is, when I grew up, the greatest gift you could give someone was attention, and the best way to insult someone was to ignore them. ... The greatest gift was attention. Well, if we're in a society where the notion of attention as important is breaking apart, what now is the relationship glue between us? Because it's always been attention.
Think You're An Auditory Or Visual Learner? Scientists Say It's Unlikely : Shots - Heal... - 5 views
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But should teachers target instruction based on perceptions of students' strengths? Several psychologists say education could use some "evidence-based" teaching techniques, not unlike the way doctors try to use "evidence-based medicine."
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"Mixing things up is something we know is scientifically supported as something that boosts attention," he says, adding that studies show that when students pay closer attention, they learn better.
Digitally Speaking / Enhancing and Amplifying Pedagogy with Digital Tools - 3 views
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iGeners are almost universally plugged in. Ear buds hang from backpacks, and cell phones are stuffed into every pocket. Instant communication has replaced listening to messages, streaming video has replaced waiting for television shows to start, Xboxes have replaced Ataris, digital images have replaced negatives, and high-speed connections have replaced dial-up modems.
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iGeners aren’t always the best students, however! Working quickly instead of carefully, they infosnack their way through class, flitting from instant experience to instant experience. Reading deeply, considering multiple perspectives and interacting with others in meaningful ways is pushed aside in a race for immediate gratification.
Kinetic City: Shape It Up - 0 views
50 Ways to Go Green in the Classroom | Teaching Tips - 0 views
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Can you think of 50 different ways to go green in your classroom starting this fall? Don’t worry: we really want you to enjoy your time off, so we came up with this little cheat sheet to help you and your students make a pact to make more eco-conscious choices and take real steps to saving our planet.
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