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Michelle Krill

eSchoolNews- welcome - eSN - 3 views

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    "These segments were recorded in Colorado classrooms during the 2008-2009 school year in Aurora, Denver and Colorado Springs District 11. C21L continues to produce videos that encourage support for teachers and administrators who wish to bring 21st Century learning skills into the classroom."
Michelle Krill

Technology a key tool in writing instruction | Community | eSchoolNews.com - 4 views

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    "The report found that the use of Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, and comics-creating software can heighten students' engagement and enhance their writing and thinking skills in all grade levels and across all subjects."
Michelle Krill

New standard makes whiteboard content more accessible | eSchoolNews.com - 3 views

  • So far, eInstruction, Hitachi, Luidia, Mimio, PolyVision, Promethean, RM, Sahara Presentation Systems, SMART Technologies, and TeamBoard have committed to adopt the CFF in the U.K.
Jimbo Lamb

Panel: Cell phones have much potential in classrooms | Curriculum | eSchoolNews.com - 2 views

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    Article on mobile education
Michelle Krill

Top News - Big district dumps grade levels -- for starters - 0 views

  • There was a sense of urgency to attend to what wasn't happening for kids here," says Roberta Selleck, district superintendent, explaining why she decided to go with a drastic approach. "When [we saw] the stats for the whole school district over time, we realized we are disconnecting [from] our kids."
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    ...when the elementary and middle school students come back next fall, there won't be any grade levels--or traditional grades, for that matter.
Michelle Krill

Top News - AASA hears what's about to disrupt schools - 0 views

  • Disruptive innovations transform products or services into something so simple that anyone can use them, creating what Christensen called "asymmetric competition."
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    ...half of all instruction will take place online within the next 10 years--and schools had better get into the online-learning market or risk losing their students to other providers.
Michelle Krill

Top News - Child-friendly social networking tools - 0 views

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    Privacy and security concerns are among the many barriers holding back the use of social networking tools in schools, new research suggests--but a number of child-friendly applications have emerged. Among these are...
anonymous

New projectors make any wall an interactive whiteboard | eSchoolNews.com - 6 views

  • n a move that could shake up the interactive whiteboard (IWB) market, two projector manufacturers have just released new products that can turn virtually any surface into an IWB.
  • The development means schools no longer have to buy separate hardware to enjoy the benefits of IWBs, whose interactive surface and ability to engage students have made them quite popular in classrooms. “We would certainly consider this projector a game-changer,”
karen sipe

New: 10 of the best Droid apps for education in 2012 | eSchool News - 2 views

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    Article has a variety of apps for K-12 students. Some are for secondary and others are for elementary.
Michelle Krill

Top News - AASA hears what's about to disrupt schools - 0 views

  • Until now, it has been very expensive to teach to students' individual needs, he said--and yet, research shows that's how students learn best. One reason online learning is attractive is because it allows for more of this customized approach to instruction than can be found in many classrooms.
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Michelle Krill

Top News - AASA hears what's about to disrupt schools - 0 views

  • Until now, the providers of online instruction have catered primarily to areas of "non-consumption" in education, Christensen said, such as credit recovery, AP courses, and home-schooled or homebound students.
  • But that will change once online instruction reaches its tipping point--and if schools want to compete for these "customers" (their students), they should consider partnering with an online-learning provider or starting an online program of their own.
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Michelle Krill

Top News - Social-networking apps can pose security risks - 0 views

  • Turns out, even the privacy-conscious Sarah Browns of the world freely hand over personal information to perfect strangers. They do so every time they download and install what's known as an "application," one of thousands of mini-programs on a growing number of social-networking web sites that are designed by third-party developers for anything from games and sports teams to trivia quizzes and virtual gifts.
  • People often think Facebook profiles and sometimes MySpace pages, if they're set as private, are only available to friends or specific groups, such as a university, workplace, or even a city.
  • But that's not true if they use applications.
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  • News Corp.'s MySpace, which has about 117 million unique visitors each month,
  • giving developers access to the profiles of anyone who downloads them
  • MySpace users don't have to include their names on their profiles.
  • They also point out that some information, such as eMail addresses and phone numbers, aren't made available.  
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    Using those cool little applications designed to enhance social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook can make personal information as...
Michelle Krill

Top News - Four trends that could change everything - 0 views

  • As a result, educators might do well to take heed of four of the more ubiquitous of these trends, which I'll allude to by means of these labels: (1) parallel computing, (2) cloud computing, (3) brain mapping, and (4) the "global dis-assembly line."
  • Humanity is developing a network-enabled, computer-assisted global consciousness.
cheryl capozzoli

Top News - Tech trends every school leader should know - 0 views

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    Are we getting there?
Michelle Krill

Top News - Woman indicted in MySpace suicide case - 0 views

  • U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien said this was the first time the federal statute on accessing protected computers has been used in a social-networking case. It has been used in the past to address hacking.
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Top News - ISTE urges tech training for future teachers - 0 views

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    Lawmakers created the Preparing Teachers for Digital Age Learners (PTDAL) program last year when they reauthorized the Higher Education Act. The program awards three-year grants to colleges of education to make sure they are equipping pre-service teachers with the skills they'll need to integrate technology effectively into K-12 classrooms
Ann Baum (Johnston)

Schools get help in using Web 2.0 tools - 0 views

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    from eSchool News: Two new CoSN whitepapers address the challenges, benefits of Web 2.0 for education
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