As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview.
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"Web Developer" Is A Job Title That Has Come And Gone - ReadWrite - 0 views
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"The year 1999 may have been the apex of the dot-com bubble euphoria, but it wasn't the heyday of Web developers. At least, not according to U.S. state and federal Occupational Employment Statistics, which didn't even register that "Web developer" was a real job. Since then, Web development has become so popular that it has made it into our labor statistics even as it has faded as a marketable job skill. Today, it's not enough to be a generic Web developer: the best developers have specialized."
Free Technology for Teachers: How to Add Annotations to YouTube Videos - Video - 0 views
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"Adding annotations to YouTube videos is a good way to add little bubbles of information to a video or to create a series of choose your own adventure videos. A great example of using annotations in student-produced videos can be found here. In the video embedded below I provide directions for adding annotations to your YouTube videos. You can also find screenshots of the process in this post."
Overview of the Scratch Language | Help Kids Code Help Kids Code Magazine | Explore com... - 0 views
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"People use the Scratch language to create interactive stories, games, and animations. Includes an active community to share projects. In the simplest terms, the Scratch language is a free programming language where you move blocks (also called bubbles) into a set order, then configure some of the blocks to create interactive stories, games, and animations."
Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create an Audio Slideshow With Annotations in YouTube - 2 views
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"Within YouTube there is a free tool for creating audio slideshows. You supply the images and YouTube supplies the audio track. You can pick from thousands of audio tracks to match to your slides. After adding your slides and selecting an audio track you can add speech bubbles to your slides. I demonstrate all of these steps in the video embedded below."
Fight Fake News: Media Literacy for Students - edWeb - 4 views
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"Teaching news literacy is more necessary and challenging than ever in a world where news is delivered at a constant pace from a broad range of sources. Since social media and filter bubbles can make it challenging to access unbiased, factual information, we must equip students to be critical as they access news sources for a variety of purposes. This live, interactive edWebinar will give an overview of the phenomenon of fake news going viral and tools educators can use to help students develop news literacy skills."
Reflections from EduTech 2017 - The Learner's Way - 1 views
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EduTech in Sydney has been a remarkable experience. A grand celebration of education and an energising gathering of educators ready to share stories and make connections. Despite the rainy weather some 8000 educators came together in the inspiring new International Convention Centre at Darling Harbour and left two days later with hers full of new ideas and wonderings of what might be the future of education. With many ideas still bubbling away here is a brief list of the key take-aways.
Amanda Bynes: Net Worth, College Attendants, Hollywood Luminary and Beacon of Resilienc... - 0 views
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From the bustling streets of Thousand Oaks, California, emerged a star whose brilliance would light up the entertainment world for years to come. Amanda Bynes, a name that resonates with both young and old, has been a beacon of talent, versatility, and resilience. With a career spanning over two decades, she has donned many hats - from a bubbly child artist making her audience laugh to a mature actress delivering powerful performances, and then transitioning into the world of fashion with grace and panache.
ChangeFaces.com - Change the face on a photo with another face and do a face swap - 1 views
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"Select one of our funny pictures and swap the faces with your photo or the face of someone else. Make a selfie or upload a photo and create your own face swap. Add bubbles and text to finish your creation. Save the result on your computer or save and share it online. Changefaces.com is a free and online tool."
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- Stop trying to figure out if screentime is good for students - 2 views
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study what happens when students use these devices to connect, develop, grow and create. We also need to understand that success in the 21st century can not be measured by the bubble tests that were created to measure an industrial model of schooling.
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Do we want students to read, write, calculate, receive instant feedback, make global connections, develop a learning network, publish to the world? Of course we do.
bubblebook.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 9 views
New on YouTube: Collaborative Annotations - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views
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YouTube today introduced a new feature that allows publishers to invite others to annotate their videos. Just a few weeks ago, YouTube introduced a new annotation feature that made it easier for publishers to add speech bubbles or spotlights to their videos. Now, you can send a special link to your friends so that they can easily add their own witty comments to your videos.
Beware of School "Reformers" - Alfie Kohn - 0 views
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To be a school “reformer” is to support: * a heavy reliance on fill-in-the-bubble standardized tests to evaluate students and schools, generally in place of more authentic forms of assessment; * the imposition of prescriptive, top-down teaching standards and curriculum mandates; * a disproportionate emphasis on rote learning—memorizing facts and practicing skills—particularly for poor kids; * a behaviorist model of motivation in which rewards (notably money) and punishments are used on teachers and students to compel compliance or raise test scores; * a corporate sensibility and an economic rationale for schooling, the point being to prepare children to “compete” as future employees; and * charter schools, many of which are run by for-profit companies.
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Almost never questioned, meanwhile, are the core elements of traditional schooling, such as lectures, worksheets, quizzes, grades, homework, punitive discipline, and competition. That would require real reform, which of course is off the table.
Daily English Activities: Remember More Vocabulary - 0 views
Comeks | Fun Photo Blogger - 0 views
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Create & share funny Comeks messages online or in mobile. Combine your photos with speech bubbles and add-on stickers. Share in:
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