It is a third gadget, the long-awaited Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire, that represents his company’s most ambitious leap into the hearts, minds, and wallets of millions of consumers.
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Digital Differentiation ~ Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners - 5 views
On the Wire-Seven Things and 7 Billion| The Committed Sardine - 1 views
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Lots of good resources. Two videos from NG worth the watch
Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine - 2 views
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the Fire is an emblem of a post-web world, in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someone’s data center.
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Amazon, on the other hand, is a content-focused company—almost half of its revenue comes from sales of media like books, music, TV shows
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Dot Day Fun! Watch Your Dot Come to Life in Amazing 3D in the colAR App | FableVision L... - 4 views
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"Thanks to our fabulous ambassador Suzy Brooks, we've connected the dots with awesome New Zealand-based company Puteko to bring you this fantastic new International Dot Day colAR coloring activity. Watch your dot go from 2D to stunning 3D! Here are some photos from Peter H. Reynolds, author of The Dot. Peter created his dot, followed the instructions below - and voilà:"
Well-Connected Parents Take On School Boards - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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For a new generation of well-wired activists in the Washington region, it's not enough to speak at Parent-Teacher Association or late-night school board meetings. They are going head-to-head with superintendents through e-mail blitzes, social networking Web sites, online petitions, partnerships with business and student groups, and research that mines a mountain of electronic data on school performance.
Grade Level Chart of 21st Century Literacies Lessons - Great Resource - 0 views
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All schools are probably teaching many of the information literacy skills found in this body of lessons. Usually, individual teachers will tackle the process of plugging the gaps in their curriculum when an issue or opportunity arises. A sixth grade teacher may see the need to review note taking, while a high school teacher needs to re-introduce Boolean operators and review Citing Sources. Eventually, schools and districts will attempt to make sure the skills covered in these lessons are integrated into the K-12 curriculum.
Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher - 0 views
Wired Science . Videos | PBS - 7 views
Visual Thinking « Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching - 7 views
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Our brains are wired to rapidly make sense of and remember visual input. Visualizations in the form of diagrams, charts, drawings, pictures, and a variety of other ways can help students understand complex information. A well-designed visual image can yield a much more powerful and memorable learning experience than a mere verbal or textual description.
"On the wire - iPad, Maths, Digital citizenship, free stuff and internet research" - 2 views
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Educational Origami
Notre Dame U. Reports on Experiment to Replace Textbooks With iPads - Wired Campus - Th... - 4 views
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students were more connected in and out of the classroom because of their use of the tablet device.
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the iPad made it easier to collaborate and manage group projects.
6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 1 views
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notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.
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Learning analytics
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Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.
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