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Here are two quotes for you: Economically disadvantaged students, who often use the computer for remediation and basic skills, learn to do what the computer tells them, while more affluent students, who use it to learn programming and tool applications, learn to tell the computer what to do. Neuman, D.

Is that why more and more companies are sponsoring schools and the movement of charter schools in the US is so popular? When the Gov't and big business start controlling the message and influencing policy and laws when it comes to sharing and distribution, thats not even a slippery slope thats an avalanche.

I tend to over tweet although i find it a good way to share messages or opinions...although why do people add and delete all the time. With twitter taking over the social media networking world, its hard not to get caught up.

Bizarre . Privacy is the second biggest concern of young people ( read that in a course posting)...I wonder what Facebook will do next, they have become the brother of Big Brother (google)

I believe its just another way of reducing opinion and openess amongst networks. Its also a very insidious way of saying hey, i am going to know everything about you and control everything that you do...they do it everywhere else in the world why not through social media...

You know from experience that when you enjoy a subject, learning about that subject is easier, more fun, and you retain the information longer. Getting kids to enjoy learning is more productive to education efforts than spending more money, lengthening school days, you name it.

How To Convert PowerPoint Presentations To HTML or Flash With Open Office

thanks will use this one for sure

A study from the Stanford University School of Medicine is published this week in Psychological Science showing that children who experience difficulty with math exhibit an altered brain

Last week the Wall Street Journal had an article announcing that Edmodo had received a $15 million venture capital investment from the founder of LinkedIn and a former VP of Facebook. That article gave me the idea for this post of fifteen things teachers and students can do with Edmodo.

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Here is an updated link on the week 9 article by Alan Levine on "Amazing Stories of Openness". It shares various videos and inspiring stories. Truly amazing stuff! "Open Education Conference Vancouver August 12, 2009 While the Open Education movement focuses on institutional issues, a large ocean exists of powerful individual accomplishments simply from tapping into content that is open for sharing and re-use."

The Long Tail or long tail refers to the statistical property that a larger share of population rests within the tail of a probability distribution than observed under a "normal" or Gaussian distribution. The term Long Tail has gained popularity in recent times as describing the retailing strategy of selling a large number of unique items with relatively small quantities sold of each - usually in addition to selling fewer popular items in large quantities

There is the simple way to explain differences.