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quantumgadgets

How Windows 10 Home is the best ever Windows version? - 0 views

          Windows 10 Home      Windows 10 Home DVD comes with 2 variations according to the Bits. It comes under 64-bit. Windows 10 is popular to be the la...

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anonymous

Education Week: Filtering Fixes - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...02filter_ep.h29.html

filtering

shared by anonymous on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Instead of blocking the many exit ramps and side routes on the information superhighway, they have decided that educating students and teachers on how to navigate the Internet’s vast resources responsibly, safely, and productively—and setting clear rules and expectations for doing so—is the best way to head off online collisions.
  • “We are known in our district for technology, so I don’t see how you can teach kids 21st-century values if you’re not teaching them digital citizenship and appropriate ways of sharing and using everything that’s available on the Web,” said Shawn Nutting, the technology director for the Trussville district. “How can you, in 2009, not use the Internet for everything? It blows me away that all these schools block things out” that are valuable.
  • While schools are required by federal and state laws to block pornography and other content that poses a danger to minors, Internet-filtering software often prevents students from accessing information on legitimate topics that tend to get caught in the censoring process: think breast cancer, sexuality, or even innocuous keywords that sound like blocked terms. One teacher who commented on one of Mr. Fryer’s blog posts, for example, complained that a search for biographical information on a person named Thacker was caught by his school’s Internet filter because the prohibited term “hacker” is included within the spelling of the word.
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  • The K-2 school provides e-mail addresses to each of its 880 students and maintains accounts on the Facebook and Twitter networking sites. Children can also interact with peers in other schools and across the country through protected wiki spaces and blogs the school has set up.
  • “Rather than saying this is a scary tool and something bad could happen, instead we believe it’s an incredible tool that connects you with the entire world out there. ... [L]et’s show you the best way to use it.”
  • As Trussville students move through the grades and encounter more-complex educational content and expectations, their Internet access is incrementally expanded.
  • In 2001, the Children’s Internet Protection Act instituted new requirements for schools to establish policies and safeguards for Internet use as a condition of receiving federal E-rate funding. Many districts have responded by restricting any potentially troublesome sites. But many educators and media specialists complain that the filters are set too broadly and cannot discriminate between good and bad content. Drawing the line between what material is acceptable and what’s not is a local decision that has to take into account each district’s comfort level with using Internet content
  • The American Civil Liberties Union sued Tennesee’s Knox County and Nashville school districts on behalf of several students and a school librarian for blocking Internet sites related to gay and lesbian issues. While the districts’ filtering software prohibited students from accessing sites that provided information and resources on the subject, it did not block sites run by organizations that promoted the controversial view that homosexuals can be “rehabilitated” and become heterosexuals. Last month, a federal court dismissed the lawsuit after school officials agreed to unblock the sites.
  • Students are using personal technology tools more readily to study subject matter, collaborate with classmates, and complete assignments than they were several years ago, but they are generally asked to “power down” at school and abandon the electronic resources they rely on for learning outside of class, the survey found. Administrators generally cite safety issues and concerns that students will misuse such tools to dawdle, cheat, or view inappropriate content in school as reasons for not offering more open online access to students. ("Students See Schools Inhibiting Their Use of New Technologies,", April 1, 2009.)
  • A report commissioned by the NSBA found that social networking can be beneficial to students, and urged school board members to “find ways to harness the educational value” of so-called Web 2.0 tools, such as setting up chat rooms or online journals that allow students to collaborate on their classwork. The 2007 report also told school boards to re-evaluate policies that ban or tightly restrict the use of the Internet or social-networking sites.
  • Federal Requirements for Schools on Internet Safety The Children’s Internet Protection Act, or CIPA, is a federal law intended to block access to offensive Web content on school and library computers. Under CIPA, schools and libraries that receive funding through the federal E-rate program for Internet access must: • Have an Internet-safety policy and technology-protection measures in place. The policy must include measures to block or filter Internet access to obscene photos, child pornography, and other images that can be harmful to minors; • Educate minors about appropriate and inappropriate online behavior, including activities like cyberbullying and social networking; • Adopt and enforce a policy to monitor online activities of minors; and • Adopt and implement policies related to Internet use by minors that address access to inappropriate online materials, student safety and privacy issues, and the hacking of unauthorized sites. Source: Federal Communications Commission
  • “We believe that you can’t have goals about kids’ collaborating globally and then block their ability to do that,” said Becky Fisher, the Virginia district’s technology coordinator.
  • anonymous on 15 Sep 09
     
    This is an excellent article. I think every school should take this to a meeting with Administrators to discuss bringing sanity to this issue once and for all.
nakhonline

Tik Tok Account Blocked - 0 views

next-freelancer.blogspot.com/...tik-tok-account-blocked.html

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  • nakhonline on 20 Apr 22
     
    Tik Tok Account Blocked: It happens. Tik Tok account is sometimes blocked. "But why?" - ask the account holders - "And what to do in such a situation? How do fix everything?
  • nakhonline on 20 Apr 22
     
    Tik Tok Account Blocked: It happens. Tik Tok account is sometimes blocked. "But why?" - ask the account holders - "And what to do in such a situation? How do fix everything?
Virginia Glatzer

Build Your Own Blocks (BYOB) - 6 views

byob.berkeley.edu

scratch programming stem

shared by Virginia Glatzer on 07 May 12 - Cached
  • Darcy Goshorn on 07 May 12
     
    Welcome to the distribution center for BYOB (Build Your Own Blocks), an advanced offshoot of Scratch, a visual programming language primarily for kids from the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. This version, developed by Jens Mönig with design input and documentation from Brian Harvey, is an attempt to extend the brilliant accessibility of Scratch to somewhat older users-in particular, non-CS-major computer science students-without becoming inaccessible to its original audience. BYOB 3 adds first class lists, sprites, and procedures to BYOB's original contribution of custom blocks and recursion.
  • Virginia Glatzer on 15 May 12
     
    Offshoot of Scratch: BYOB 3 adds first class lists, sprites, and procedures to BYOB's original contribution of custom blocks and recursion.
anonymous

Richard Feynman on Beauty | Open Culture - 8 views

www.openculture.com/...richard_feynman_on_beauty.html

beauty culture science scientist education biology physics chemistry environment video

shared by anonymous on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached

  • Richard Feynman on Beauty

    in Physics, Science | October 5th, 2011 Leave a Comment

    After dismissing the popular notion that scientists are unable to truly appreciate beauty in nature, physicist Richard Feynman (1918 – 1988) explains what a scientist really is and does. Here are some of the most memorable lines from this beautiful mix of Feynman quotes and (mostly) BBC and NASA footage:

  • anonymous on 05 Oct 11
     
    Probably worth 5 mins of you time. Wow!
  • anonymous on 05 Oct 11
     
    Wow! Would you like to feel grounded? give 5min to this this video and you won't be sorry.
anonymous

Straight from the DOE: Dispelling Myths About Blocked Sites | MindShift - 1 views

mindshift.kqed.org/...bout-blocking-sites-in-schools

CIPA filtering education filter blocking erate Internet

shared by anonymous on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Cator parsed the rules of the Childrens Internet Protection Act, and provided guidance for teachers on how to proceed when it comes to interpreting the rules.
  • Accessing YouTube is not violating CIPA rules
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 16 Jul 11
       
      But, I really CAN understand if a district doesn't have the bandwidth to support it being open to all on every computer. But why not in the library, at least?
  • Websites don’t have to be blocked for teachers
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 16 Jul 11
       
      This one dirves me NUTS!! Even in the SUMMER some tech folks won't open up the filter and just block the porn.
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  • Schools will not lose E-rate funding by unblocking appropriate sites.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 16 Jul 11
       
      Then, if this is the case, ANY filtering beyond the Porn sites should be considered Censorship, IMHO
  • Teachers should be trusted.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 16 Jul 11
       
      Can I hear ANOTHER Amen?
  • See the excerpt below from the National Education Technology Plan, approved by officials who dictate E-rate rules.
  • Kids need to be taught how to be responsible digital citizens
  • Broad filters are not helpful
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 16 Jul 11
       
      Amen!
  • [We need to] address the topic at school or home in the form of education,” Cator says. “How do we educate this generation of young people to be safe online, to be secure online, to protect their personal information, to understand privacy, and how that all plays out when they’re in an online space?”
    • Michelle Eichelberger
      Michelle Eichelberger on 27 Apr 11
       
      Exactly!! I wish I could get this through to our district and make this a priority!
  • We also want students to be nice to each other, and not to engage in bullying, in an online space where their voice is amplified and persistent. We want students to grow up to be good digital citizen.
    • Michelle Eichelberger
      Michelle Eichelberger on 27 Apr 11
       
      We need to be proactive in this, not always cleaning up the "mess" once cyberbullying has taken place.
  • requires providing professional development for adults working with these students.
    • Michelle Eichelberger
      Michelle Eichelberger on 27 Apr 11
       
      This is so necessary.
  • Michelle Krill on 27 Apr 11
     
    "To clear up some of the confusion around these comments and assertions, I went straight to the top: the Department of Education's Director of Education Technology, Karen Cator. Cator parsed the rules of the Childrens Internet Protection Act, and provided guidance for teachers on how to proceed when it comes to interpreting the rules. To that end, here are six surprising rules that educators, administrators, parents and students might not know about website filtering in schools."
Darcy Goshorn

DPS Web Site Block/Unblock Rubric - 0 views

edutech.dpsnc.net/index.php

block unblock website filter request committee board filtering cipa for:cffcoach

shared by Darcy Goshorn on 15 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Darcy Goshorn on 15 Nov 08
     
    Very well designed rubric for website block/unblock requests for a school district.
  • Darcy Goshorn on 15 Nov 08
     
    will be stealing this for our web filter review committee
Michelle Krill

GROU.PS :: connects obsessively! - 0 views

grou.ps/introduction.php

collaboration groups socialnetworking socialnetwork ning

shared by Michelle Krill on 04 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 04 Apr 09
     
    GROU.PS is a social applications platform that gives you all the tools you need to keep your online community connected. More formally, we call our product a social groupware - some also call it DIY social network, or white label social network. But technically speaking, we prefer the term social operating system to describe what we do here. GROU.PS gives you a bunch of modules that you choose from and mash up very easily! You can enrich your site with blocks too; blocks allow you to copy/paste 3rd party widgets into your site.
Dave Solon

Is your creativity blocked?: The eLearning Coach - 0 views

theelearningcoach.com/...is-your-creativity-blocked

shared by Dave Solon on 30 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Psychologists say that creativity thrives in a permissive environment, but some people spend their days in a workplace that frowns upon innovative thinking. Furthermore, the traditional workplace is often filled with distractions that interrupt your creative flow. In some workplaces, competition between employees, autocratic bosses or a lack of team cooperation can bury creative notions. These are the environmental blocks we most overcome.
    • Dave Solon
      Dave Solon on 30 Nov 11
       
      AMEN!
anonymous

All Passage Middle School classes will blog this year -- dailypress.com - 0 views

www.dailypress.com/...eets_0822aug24,0,1313238.story

blogging

shared by anonymous on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Passage teachers have been encouraged to create an account on Twitter, an online social networking site that limits each posting to 140 characters. Teachers will attend a morning screening of the movie "Julie & Julia" and "live blog" the experience with their Twitter accounts. Rogers chose the movie, based on the experiences of two real people, because one character uses a blog as an education and communication tool.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Aug 09
       
      Is Twitter blocked in your school? You HAVE to now ask WHY!!
  • anonymous on 24 Aug 09
     
    Imagine! And they, too, are following the CIPA laws - the same laws that some of our schools are using as reasons to BLOCK all blogs!
Pamela Stevens

TED Blog: Siftables, the toy blocks that think: David Merrill on TED.com - 4 views

blog.ted.com/...siftables_the_t.php

siftables math music TED tools Interactive_Activities

shared by Pamela Stevens on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Pamela Stevens on 16 Oct 09
     
    Siftables, the toy blocks that think: David Merrill on TED.com In the latest release from TED2009, MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. (Recorded in 2009 in Monterey, California. Duration: 7:09.)
nakhonline

What is NFT, How To Use It, Where To Store It And How Long Will They Stay With Us? - 0 views

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#searchenginemarketing #seobacklinks #linkbuildingseo #localseo #searchengineranki #seoservice #blog #websitetraffic #Youtube

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  • nakhonline on 11 Apr 22
     
    The NFT trend started back in 2017 with the famous blockchain game CryptoKitties. Then the excitement about Crypto Kotikov was so widespread in the community that, in addition to selling pictures for 600 ETH, it practically blocked the operation of the Ethereum network itself for several days. With the crypto-winter in 2018-19, the hype for "cats" subsided, but ERC-721 standard tokens remained and in 2021 they created a new NFT hype.
  • nakhonline on 11 Apr 22
     
    The NFT trend started back in 2017 with the famous blockchain game CryptoKitties. Then the excitement about Crypto Kotikov was so widespread in the community that, in addition to selling pictures for 600 ETH, it practically blocked the operation of the Ethereum network itself for several days. With the crypto-winter in 2018-19, the hype for "cats" subsided, but ERC-721 standard tokens remained and in 2021 they created a new NFT hype.
Kathy Fiedler

Nature Works Everywhere | Presented by The Nature Conservancy - 0 views

www.natureworkseverywhere.org

science nature education environment interactive earthday Earth elementary

shared by Kathy Fiedler on 30 May 12 - No Cached
  • Kathy Fiedler on 30 May 12
     
    Nature: It's more than just a faraway beach or mountain. It's a fantastic factory that makes the building blocks of all our lives-food, drinking water, the stuff we own and the air we breathe. It makes amazing memories, and even protects us from floods and storms! That's why The Nature Conservancy and its 550 scientists have created a new initiative - Nature Works Everywhere - to help students learn the science behind how nature works for us…and how we can help keep nature running strong. Nature Works Everywhere gives teachers, students and families everything they need to start exploring and understanding nature's fantastic factory - videos, interactive games, and interactive lesson plans that align to standards. Hosted by Nature Conservancy scientists, Nature Works Everywhere takes your class around the world to visit nature at its productive best - from coral reefs to bee gardens, from Maine's snowy forests to Africa's grasslands. We'll be adding more lessons each year from around the globe on science and social studies topics that teachers can use as is or customize for their own classroom needs.
anonymous

littleBits - 6 views

littlebits.cc

diy engineering design hardware littlebits electronics science math circuits

shared by anonymous on 23 Jul 12 - Cached
  • anonymous on 23 Jul 12
     
    littleBits consists of tiny circuit-boards with simple, unique functions engineered to snap together with magnets. No soldering, no wiring, no programming, just snap and play. Each bit has a simple, unique function (light, sound, sensors, buttons, thresholds, pulse, motors, etc), and modules snap to make larger circuits. Just as LEGOs™ allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are small, simple, intuitive, blocks that make creating with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together.
Darcy Goshorn

Introducing Programming to Preschoolers - 2 views

mindshift.kqed.org/...ng-programming-to-preschoolers

lesson programming scratch preschool ict computer logic

shared by Darcy Goshorn on 27 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Darcy Goshorn on 27 Feb 12
     
    Since MIT's Lifelong Kindergarten group released Scratch in 2007, kids ages 8 to 13 have built more than 2.2 million animations, games, music, videos and stories using the kid-friendly programming language. Scratch allows kids to snap together graphical blocks of instructions, like Lego bricks, to control sprites-the movable objects that perform actions. Sprites can dance, sing, run and talk. Now, with a grant from the National Foundation of Science, Lifelong Kindergarten is collaborating with Tufts University's DevTech Research Group to make Scratch Jr, a new version aimed at kids in preschool to second grade. The expected launch date is summer 2012.
anonymous

The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 2 views

www.newsweek.com/...the-creativity-crisis.html

creativity

shared by anonymous on 19 Jul 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 19 Jul 10
     
    "A fine example of this emerged in January of this year, with release of a study by University of Western Ontario neuroscientist Daniel Ansari and Harvard's Aaron Berkowitz, who studies music cognition. They put Dartmouth music majors and nonmusicians in an fMRI scanner, giving participants a one-handed fiber-optic keyboard to play melodies on. Sometimes melodies were rehearsed; other times they were creatively improvised. During improvisation, the highly trained music majors used their brains in a way the nonmusicians could not: they deactivated their right-temporoparietal junction. Normally, the r-TPJ reads incoming stimuli, sorting the stream for relevance. By turning that off, the musicians blocked out all distraction. They hit an extra gear of concentration, allowing them to work with the notes and create music spontaneously."
Darcy Goshorn

App Inventor for Android - 3 views

appinventor.googlelabs.com/about

android Google app development inventor programming Application apps phone mobile for:cffcoach cs computerscience

shared by Darcy Goshorn on 12 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Darcy Goshorn on 12 Jul 10
     
    You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone. But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android's text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud. To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior.
  • Darcy Goshorn on 12 Jul 10
     
    WOW! Very Scratch-like UI for programming Android mobile apps!!
Darcy Goshorn

OMSI: Robot Obstacle Course - 4 views

www.omsi.info/...index.htm

robot programming computer computers technology program cs for:cffcoach

shared by Darcy Goshorn on 18 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Darcy Goshorn on 18 Jun 10
     
    Robot Obstacle Course is an excellent introduction into programming for young kids. Students are presented with an obstacle course made up of colored blocks and keys. Students must program the robot to jump over the obstacles and pick up the keys to complete the course. Through the obstacle course, students are introduced to basic programming language and learn how to think like a programmer. The obstacles get progressively more difficult and more variables are added.
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