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Learning with an iPad - Winnipeg Free Press - 0 views

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  • Phil Taylor on 31 May 13
     
    "The iPad "certainly doesn't do everything a desktop or laptop computer does," Weston acknowledged. "It's not about the device, it's about the learning.""
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Schools demanding news literacy lessons to teach students how to find fact amid fiction... - 6 views

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  • When Ife Adelona saw a picture of singer Selena Gomez as an adult magazine covergirl circulating on Twitter, the 17-year-old knew what she had to do. “I immediately went for a second source to make sure it wasn’t true,” Ife said.
  • John Evans on 19 Apr 13
     
    "When Ife Adelona saw a picture of singer Selena Gomez as an adult magazine covergirl circulating on Twitter, the 17-year-old knew what she had to do. "I immediately went for a second source to make sure it wasn't true," Ife said. "
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Guest Post | Three Starting Points for Thinking Differently About Learning - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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  • The last 15 Web-frenzied years have upended the basic premise of school. The idea that content and knowledge and teachers are scarce and have to be collected into a local classroom during a certain time period in order to educate our children is no longer true.
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Finding a voice: students use iPads to communicate - ABC Darwin - Australian Broadcasti... - 1 views

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  • John Evans on 10 Sep 12
     
    "Today, Caitlin responds to her teacher a different way. "Hello, can I have your compost please?" comes a voice from an iPad, slung around her neck."
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Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine - 2 views

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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  • This keeps iPads tethered to the paradigm of local storage, putting a premium on machines with more memory (which cost hundreds of dollars more). Amazon, by contrast, emphasizes streaming.
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Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say - The Wa... - 5 views

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  • John Evans on 09 Apr 14
     
    "Claire Handscombe has a commitment problem online. Like a lot of Web surfers, she clicks on links posted on social networks, reads a few sentences, looks for exciting words, and then grows restless, scampering off to the next page she probably won't commit to. "I give it a few seconds - not even minutes - and then I'm moving again," says Handscombe, a 35-year-old graduate student in creative writing at American University. Gallery Lynda Barry: The 20 stages of reading: If there are stages of grief and steps to recovery, isn't the act of reading a complicated, evolving thing over time? Cartoonist Lynda Barry, one of scores of writers at the National Book Festival on Sept. 21-22, certainly thinks so. (Related: 12 authors, 12 reasons why they write) Click here to subscribe. But it's not just online anymore. She finds herself behaving the same way with a novel. "
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The fourth R: Improving reading, writing, arithmetic - Winnipeg Free Press - 3 views

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  • John Evans on 05 May 14
     
    LUNDAR -- Can you imagine a school of 1,195 students the size of Prince Edward Island? A school in which the teachers all know your name, and know your needs and know your strengths and meet regularly to stay on top of your education?"
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McLuhan's message still 'cool' - Winnipeg Free Press - 4 views

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  • His phrases like "global village" and predictions about new media making old media obsolete and the rise of tribalism have become a reality. In the digital era, people all over the world are connected by the internet and Facebook and Twitter .
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U of Minn. alumni develop digital textbook reader | StarTribune.com - 3 views

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  • Rick Beach on 27 Nov 10
     
    Kno's development of a dual screen tablet for e-textbooks
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