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Phil Taylor

Free Technology for Teachers: The Real Value of Google Forms, Sheets, and Add-ons - 3 views

  • easier to streamline other routine teacher tasks like emailing updates to parents, providing feedback on summative assessments, and even keeping track of classroom materials
John Evans

5 Tools to Watch the Night Sky and Track Events in Astronomy - 0 views

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    "Remember how you felt when you first looked at the night sky through a telescope? All those stars, those distant planets - celestial bodies that form poetry in the blackness of deep space. A little help from technology can let you rediscover that child-like joy. Now, there are already programs like Stellarium to learn about the night sky from your computer. But we're going to be looking at sites and apps that accompany real-life star-gazers who need to know what to look at up above, and when to head out of town to capture breath-taking vistas."
John Evans

Free Technology for Teachers: GoClass - Create and Deliver Lessons on iPads - 0 views

  • GoClass is a free iPad application for creating short lessons and delivering them to your students. The lessons can include annotated images, free hand sketches, text, and video. GoClass gives teachers tools for creating class rosters that they can use to keep track of which students are using the lessons when. Teachers also have the option to ask questions and poll their students. After the students' response have been gathered teachers can project those responses without showing individual student's names. The image below, from GoClass, illustrates how a teacher might use the app with students.
Sheri Oberman

The Innovative Educator: An Alternative to High Stakes Testing. Facebook Stats - A More Effective Accountability Measure - 2 views

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    The best measure of academic achievment is successin the real world, not tests. Schools can measure their success by following up on alumni. aUse real-world, real-life experiences to connent students to potential new jobs, showcase their talents, develop partnerships, and measure academic achievement.
John Evans

There's millions in those Minecraft blocks - 3 views

  • 35 million copies, with nearly 100 million players worldwide,
Keri-Lee Beasley

Using Technology to Break the Speed Barrier of Reading - Scientific American - 1 views

  • Unfortunately, the system of reading we inherited from the ancient scribes —the method of reading you are most likely using right now — has been fundamentally shaped by engineering constraints that were relevant in centuries past, but no longer appropriate in our information age.
  • search for innovative engineering solutions aimed at making reading more efficient and effective for more people
  • But then, by chance, I discovered that when I used the small screen of a smartphone to read my scientific papers required for work, I was able to read with much greater facility and ease.
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  • hen, in a comprehensive study of over 100 high school students with dyslexia done in 2013, using techniques that included eye tracking, we were able to confirm that the shortened line formats produced a benefit for many who otherwise struggled with reading.
  • For example, Marco Zorzi and his colleagues in Italy and France showed in 2012 that when letter spacing is increased to reduce crowding, children with dyslexia read more effectively.
  • A clever web application called Beeline Reader, developed by Nick Lum, a lawyer from San Francisco, may accomplish something similar using colors to guide the reader’s attention forward along the line.  Beeline does this by washing each line of text in a color gradient, to create text that looks a bit like a tie-dyed tee-shirt.
  • one aims to increase the throughput of the brain’s reading buffers by changing their capacity for information processing, while the other seeks to activate alternate channels for reading that will allow information to be processed in parallel, and thereby increase the capacity of the language processing able to be performed during reading. 
  • The brain is said to be plastic, meaning that it is possible to change its abilities.
  • people can be taught to roughly double their reading speed, without compromising comprehension.
  • Consider that we process language, first and foremost, through speech. And yet, in the traditional design of reading we are forced to read using our eyes. Even though the brain already includes a fully developed auditory pathway for language, the traditional design for reading makes little use of the auditory processing capabilities of the brain
  • While the visual pathways are being strained to capacity by reading, the auditory network for language remains relatively under-utilized.
  • Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper.
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    "Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper."
Phil Taylor

The top 10 most dangerous internet search terms - Telegraph - 1 views

  • Users surfing the web for song lyrics, free music tracks and screen savers are most at risk of accidentally downloading malicious software, a study has found
John Evans

TweetYourEats.com - Helping You Track Everything You Put In Your Mouth - Use Twitter to manage/lose weight! - 0 views

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    Could be an easy way to count your calories etc. during your day.
John Evans

'The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching' - Knowledge@Wharton - 0 views

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    A though provoking article.Read online, or download the article in podcast form.
John Evans

Samepoint Social Conversation Search | Social Mentions - 0 views

  • Social Media search Samepoint is a conversation search engine that lets you see what people are talking about.Discover, learn and share new web sites and ideas.
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    Social Media search Samepoint is a conversation search engine that lets you see what people are talking about. Discover, learn and share new web sites and ideas.
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