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Michelle Krill

Cell Phone Driving Statistics | Get Texting While Driving Statistics & Facts from Natio... - 4 views

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    "Learn about the danger of driving while distracted (DWD) and cell phone use while driving with helpful information from Nationwide Insurance to help prevent driving while texting accidents when you're behind the wheel. "
Michelle Krill

Watch the Full Hour - America's New Deadly Obsession - Video - Oprah.com - 4 views

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    "Statistics show that talking on the phone or texting while driving is just as dangerous as driving drunk. It is Oprah's hope that seeing this show will be a seminal moment in your life and that you will be inspired to make your car a No Phone Zone. "
anonymous

YouTube - Social Media Revolution 2011 - 8 views

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    Part of the world's most watched Social Media video series; "Social Media Revolution" by Erik Qualman. Based on #1 International Best Selling Book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman. This is a shorter version that includes new social media statistics for 2011.
Sue Sheffer

I Write Like - 17 views

shared by Sue Sheffer on 16 Apr 11 - Cached
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    "Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers."
shahbazbashi17

ISLAMIA COLLEGE PESHWAR FACT AND HISTORY - 0 views

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    Islamia College Peshawar fact Peshawar was earlier identified as the Darul-Uloom-e-Islamia Sarhad isn't actually the name of an educational institution activity though it directs explanation to be a journey within education. The place of this great manufacturing arrangement consists of at the back of it an extended statistics and it attains for an excellent change which in the extended run modified the complete of N.W.F.P and the connecting common districts. The change is large for allowing property practice, the reliability of constitutional institutions and certainly an effort to obtain freedom from unusual government.
shahbazbashi17

QUEEN VICTORIA BUILDING FACT & HISTORY - 0 views

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    Queen Victoria Building or QVB, a beautiful position within the coronary middle of Sydney. It's important to obtain out a holiday place that gives the purposes of shopaholics, design fans and statistics buffs, but QVB takes it through. The architecturally impressive constructing, created in the 1890s, practices up a complete downtown distance. It may be obtained for George, Market, York, and Druitt Streets. It's additionally consequences obtained through teaching via a secret walkway from the Town Hall Station.
anonymous

Paul Otellini Busts Some Myths About Intel - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD - 0 views

  • Moore’s Law is still alive and well, Otellini said. In 1997, Intel built a supercomputer called ASCI Red that could compute one teraflop. It required 2,500 square feet of space and 9,298 chips to get the number crunching done. Earlier this month, Intel announced a chip codenamed Knight’s Corner that can do a teraflop by itself. In the mainstream marketplace, today’s notebooks are 300 times more powerful than notebooks built in 1995.
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      These kinds of statistics always give me pause. Project this out just ten years and you'll begin to see why it's SO VERY important that schools learn to leverage technology rather than ignore it.
Anne Van Meter

Ed schools vs. education - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 5 views

  • "The achievement gap between the U.S. and the world's top-performing countries can be said to be causing the equivalent of a permanent recession," Mr. Hanushek wrote for Education Next.
    • anonymous
       
      What are your thoughts on this?
  • Today we lead the world only in how much we spend per pupil.
    • anonymous
       
      There are many reasons for this, of course. But, why do you suppose we're not getting the achievement?
    • Jimbo Lamb
       
      Is it because we are forcing all kids to fit the same standards rather than develop different standards for different needs of the students?
    • Anne Van Meter
       
      Not in % of GDP we spend... Of course, those other countries spend on pupil support: extended parental leave, full health care...
  • Far and away the most important factor in student learning is the quality of teachers. If we got rid of just the bottom 5 percent to 7 percent of teachers, that alone would lift our kids to Canadian levels, Mr. Hanushek calculates.
    • anonymous
       
      This is a delicate subject. But, we all know folks who don't put forth the effort that they should. What IF we did this?
    • Jimbo Lamb
       
      How do you compare this? In my school, I will have 183 students in my classes this year, and none will be considered advanced math students. Our calc teacher will have a majority of the advanced students and his enrollment numbers are at 93. How does this compare?
    • Anne Van Meter
       
      I only teach the lower level students (no complaints about that, I'm good at what I do) but they will not hit "advanced"!!
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  • Our teachers "do not know anything," according to Terrence Moore, who teaches history at Hillsdale College. That's largely because most have degrees in education rather than in the subjects they teach.
    • anonymous
       
      This statement just TICKS.ME.OFF!
    • anonymous
       
      Teachers are constrained by many different influences. Creativity is stifled, we teacher to the lowest common "core" denominator. Schools are not bold but old. We are rewarded by passing many useless measures, which unfortunately this article is based off of. Standardized test scores have blinded the public to what is important. Being able to problem solve and to be creative has always been the mark of an American, but that is being stripped of this generation b/c of the drive to wards testing.
    • Anne Van Meter
       
      And what are elementary teachers supposed to have degrees in? Do you really want a second grade teacher with a major in history? Or chemistry? In college, I took engineering and business calculus classes, business statistics and accounting, in addition to my education math classes. Does it matter that I didn't get a degree in math? Isn't it better that I also have courses in ancient near eastern history? And Arthurian legends? And American and English literature and American government?
  • "Future teachers are better served by getting good grounding in academic subject matter."
    • anonymous
       
      Is that true? Or, is it better to learn how to teach and to use technology for what its capable of doing, etc etc?
  • Ed schools seem to think knowing stuff isn't important.
    • anonymous
       
      Humbug!
  • "If you confront [teachers] with the fact that they, just as their students, can tell you nothing about the first 10 presidents or the use of the gerund, they will blithely respond that it is not so important for them to know things as to know 'how to know things,' " said Mr. Moore.
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      What do you think?
  • The reform needed is to remove state "certification" requirements. The reason for them, we're told, is to guarantee that only the qualified teach. Their real purpose is to keep the knowledgeable out of the classroom.
    • anonymous
       
      This is sounding more and more like a rant instead of a thoughtful argument.
  • "Yet these education schools," Mr. Moore points out, "not only do not impart real knowledge of academic subjects; they are actively hostile to it."
    • anonymous
       
      I need to see facts to support this.
    • Anne Van Meter
       
      The first three out of four years in college were spent taking more non-education courses than education related. We all had to take the full math/English/history/science core courses, then added psychology and sociology in addition to the education courses and several internships as well.
  • If instead of being forced to hire the certified, schools were free to hire the qualified, colleges of education would wither away -- and learning would blossom.
    • anonymous
       
      Many qualified folks lost their positions when they weren't deemed 'highly qualified.' 
    • Jimbo Lamb
       
      Isn't that what certification is? An official statement that the person is indeed qualified?
    • Anne Van Meter
       
      But, wasn't he just complaining several paragraphs ago that 60% of teachers are certified in their subjects? And he wants to add more uncertified teachers?
  • Students learn a lot from the teacher who knows a lot," Mr. Moore said. "They learn nothing from the teacher who knows nothing."
    • anonymous
       
      Now, that's profound.
  • they aren't allowed to teach.
    • anonymous
       
      Why would they? The work is difficult, the pay is terrible and everyone outside of education thinks you're lazy.
    • Jimbo Lamb
       
      A medical doctor teaching in HS? What, around their appointments with patients? 
    • Anne Van Meter
       
      And politicians take cushy jobs as lobbyists. I can't think of many teachers who only need to teach civics. It's only a small part of the full curriculum.
  • Not so many years ago, our schools were the best in the world
    • Jimbo Lamb
       
      I'd like to see the supporting evidence on this.
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    An interesting article, and certainly not without other opinions.
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    An interesting article, and certainly not without other opinions.
Darcy Goshorn

The Internet in Real-Time - 6 views

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    Visualizing how quickly data is generated on the internet in realtime. Like a dynamic infographic.
Michelle Krill

Gary's Social Media Count | PERSONALIZE MEDIA - 3 views

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    Flash app (which is in constant development) showing how active & dynamic the Social Web, Mobile Industry and Game Business are.
Sue Sheffer

About | DataMasher - 5 views

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    "How do the States Compare? Mash up some government data to find out! The Federal Government produces an immeasurable amount of data each day. DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with those data by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues. Users can combine different data sets in interesting ways and create their own custom rankings of the states."
Darcy Goshorn

CPMP-Tools Software - 0 views

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    CPMP-Tools is a suite of both general purpose and custom software tools designed to support student investigation and problem solving in the 2nd edition Core-Plus Mathematics texts. Software for Courses 1 and 2 has been completed.
Darcy Goshorn

NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC - Interactive Map Services - 0 views

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    Interactive maps from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with lots of data to mashup.
Michelle Krill

Latest News - Digital Learning - 0 views

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    Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America's youth are developing important social and technical skills online - often in ways adults do not understand or value.
Michelle Krill

Pew Releases Report on Adults and Social Networks « technola - 0 views

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    Explores how adults are using social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace.  Findings include: Adult internet users with a profile on a social network site have quadrupled in the last four years; Although the percentage of teens using social networks is higher, adults still make up the majority of social network users; and Younger adults are far more likely to use social networks than older adults.
Michelle Krill

Tasty Data Goodies - Swivel - 0 views

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    * Explore and compare data, graphs and maps. * Share insights via email, blog or data downloads. * Upload the data you care about.
Darcy Goshorn

Science.gov - 0 views

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    Government-provided science portal with lots and lots of links.
Kathe Santillo

Bureau of Labor Statistics Home Page - 0 views

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    This site provides current U.S. and regional economic data, such as unemployment and earnings figures. It also includes links to news releases and other publications. There's also a link for resources for teachers and students.
cheryl capozzoli

An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country. - By Chris Wilson - Slat... - 0 views

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    interactive employment map
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