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Corinne Carriero

New Program Pairs Educators with Free iPad Apps -- THE Journal - 3 views

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    Two business men who are creating education apps and supporting students who are creating education apps have begun "The App Evaluation Program for Schools" which allows teachers to test educational apps for kids for free. "The apps, which cover everything from math, spelling, and reading to language learning, storyboard building, and puzzles, are provided by developers around the world and sent to teachers two or three times per month. Teachers receive a questionnaire after testing the app as a way to help developers improve, but Larsson stresses they are not required to fill it out."
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    Seems like a nice way for teachers to get new iPad educational apps free to evaluate and then use if they find them valuable
Rhys Daunic

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Magazine - 1 views

  • This is the natural path of industrialization: invention, propagation, adoption, control.
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      Makes me think of Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization
  • Artificial scarcity is the natural goal of the profit-seeking.
  • Faustian bargain
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      Neil Postman
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  • lean forward
  • lean back
  • The defenders of the unfettered Web have their hopes set on HTML5 — the latest version of Web-building code that offers applike flexibility
  • This is seen by many as a battle for the soul of the digital frontier.
  • Since the dawn of the commercial Web, technology has eclipsed content.
  • this is a battle that seemed fought and won — not just toppling newspapers and music labels but also AOL and Prodigy and anyone who built a business on the idea that a curated experience would beat out the flexibility and freedom of the Web.
  • Chaos isn’t a business model. A new breed of media moguls is bringing order — and profits — to the digital world.
  • the top 10 Web sites accounted for 31 percent of US pageviews in 2001, 40 percent in 2006, and about 75 percent in 2010.
  • Within five years, Morgan Stanley projects, the number of users accessing the Net from mobile devices will surpass the number who access it from PCs.
  • For the sake of the optimized experience on mobile devices, users forgo the general-purpose browser.
  • But eventually our tolerance for the delirious chaos of infinite competition finds its limits.
  • Much as we love freedom and choice, we also love things that just work, reliably and seamlessly.
  • about 35 percent of all our media time is now spent on the Web
  • The dark side of network effects is that rich nodes get richer. Metcalfe’s law,
  • which states that the value of a network increases in proportion to the square of connections,
  • We get the Web. It’s part of our life. And we just want to use the services that make our life better.
  • Blame human nature. As much as we intellectually appreciate openness, at the end of the day we favor the easiest path.
  • But eventually our tolerance for the delirious chaos of infinite competition finds its limits.
anonymous

NYC iZone - Home - 1 views

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    This is the home site for NYC iZone. The NYC iZone is an initiative intended to allow schools to innovate in order to achieve dramatically improved outcomes by rethinking the standard assumptions that underlie 'business as usual' in education.
Rene Hahn

simCEO - Welcome - 0 views

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    this is a quote about simCEO from Edutopia- What if students created their own companies, complete with business plans? What if they could also buy and sell stocks in classmates' companies? What if they could see how stock prices fluctuated over a 10-year period rather than just a few weeks? The result of that brainstorming became an online simulation called SimCEO. Luebbe, principal of American International School of Budapest, has been fine-tuning his creation by sharing it with educators around the world. They have surprised him by taking projects in directions he never imagined. He expected teachers to focus on financial literacy and entrepreneurship. But some have brought in different content. "They might set the simulation in Colonial America or New York in the 1920s," Luebbe says, then ask students to consider how historical factors would have affected market prices. Because teachers determine all the content, he adds, "they can bring in demographic data, real or fictional news, historical events -- whatever they want." The game becomes an open platform for teacher innovation.""
anonymous

Science21stCenturySkillsMapFINAL.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    This 21st Century Skills Map is the result of hundreds ofhours of research, development and feedback from educators and business leaders across the nation. The Partnership has issued this map for the core subject of Science. This tool is available at www.21stcenturyskills.org.
Ken Ellis

Teachers TV | Thousands of education programmes on TV and online - 0 views

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    Thousands of education videos on TV and online, an invaluable resource for any busy education professional.
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    This looks great, Ken. I have been looking for an alternative to Teacher Tube for awhile now.
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    Ones I've seen are Pommie, but worthwhile. Useful to use for individual teachers or for discussion at a school PD. Huge variety of topics covering Across-the-school situations to specific subject areas
Rhys Daunic

Young Entrepreneurs Create Their Own Jobs - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Would not be done without 21st Century skills, media literacy, and the ability to problem solve and think critically to apply all of the above.  That and GUTS! 
anonymous

Flubaroo Overview - Welcome to Flubaroo - 0 views

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    this is great, thanks Daniel! i think Sheila highlighted flubaroo earlier & i was too busy to check it out - since then, i found it for one of my teachers & we set up a flubaroo grading script ... it worked perfectly - a huge time saver! i wish we had a matrix-like plug-in to speed learn all this...
anonymous

Issuu - You Publish - 0 views

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    Take digital publishing (.pdfs) to a whole new level.
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