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Pablo Zatz

A first-hand look inside a flipped classroom | eSchool News - 0 views

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    Good article with nice vignettes and commentary on how flipped classroom works in action.
smondrone

New Google Account Activity lets you know what Google knows about you - 2 views

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    Often in workshops people raise the "privacy" concern about Google. This will help address those concerns.
Pablo Zatz

VITAL News Special Edition: Teachers Needed for Survey and Live Broadcast - 0 views

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    This  should be widely promoted
Pablo Zatz

Flipped learning: A response to five common criticisms | eSchool News - 1 views

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    An Alan November and Brian Mull article with good references to Dr Mazur's work
smondrone

Goodbye Black Google Bar, Welcome Google Drop Down Menu - 3 views

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    Good thing? Bad thing? Discuss ...
Rhys Daunic

The Ultimate Guide To Apple's New Education Initiative | Edudemic - 1 views

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    Apple has also announced iBooks Author (more details below) which lets you create your own textbooks. Users can even insert custom Javascript or HTML5 code into eBooks using iBooks Author.
wiljennings419

The Top 10 Education APIs (And Why They're Important) | Edudemic - 1 views

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    First off, what is an API? API stands for Application Program Interface. It's a tool which allows web applications (websites and apps to the layman) to communicate with each other and share information stored in each other's databases. This information can then be incorporated into new and different projects.
Pablo Zatz

Seven standards for effective professional development | eSchool News - 2 views

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    Effective Professional Development, PD standards, 21st-century student achievement
Pablo Zatz

Using 21st Century Tools for College Success | eSchool News - 0 views

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    Look at the other items included in this eMagazine
Pablo Zatz

Sophia upgrades its website with 25,000 free academic tutorials and more | eSchool News - 1 views

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    This is a great resource to share with teachers
Corinne Carriero

Educator Resources - Early Childhood - New York City Department of Education - 2 views

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    NYC DOE Common Core Task Bundles that were available to teachers for the 11-12 school year
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    This site that contains the NYC DOE developed Common Core Task Bundles for Literacy and Math. A good place to see what was expected of NYC teachers for the 11-12 school year and for what they will be expected to implement in 12-13
Pablo Zatz

ExploreLearning Reflex :: Educator Grant Program - 0 views

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    Great math program. Grant only 10 days left
Rhys Daunic

Online Safety and Social Networking - 4 views

Hey all, I'm going to do a workshop for parents on this, and I'd love to see your favorite resources. I'll be tagging what I find as follows: "online safety", "social networking". I'm pretty new...

safety social networking

started by Rhys Daunic on 28 Apr 09 no follow-up yet
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
  • ...18 more annotations...
  • 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.
Pablo Zatz

crunchgear.com article - 1 views

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    Some light technical stuff with previewing of what is coming down the pipeline.
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