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Amanda Nichols

5 K-12 Ed Tech Trends for 2012 -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    THE Journal's five tech trends for education in 2012
Amanda Nichols

12 Education Tech Trends to Watch in 2012 | MindShift - 2 views

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    KQED's perspective of upcoming educational trends
Danielle Blanchard

Dyslexic Font? - 0 views

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    Really curious about this theory, and it might work to help eyes track.
Danielle Blanchard

iPad iOS6 feature to Focus Students - 0 views

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    This little article shows how to limit what kids can use on an iPad for any given lesson. It can stop them from even seeing their home page so they cannot launch anything but the app(s) you have planned for them. Cool and helpful.
Amanda Nichols

Schools across the country bring iPads to the classroom | McClatchy - 0 views

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    Teachers in digital classrooms have become learning coaches, moving around the room and giving students more one-on-one instruction. Educators who have embraced this approach said it better prepares students for the interactive environments they'll encounter in their college and professional lives.
Amanda Nichols

Tweet, Tweet, Go the Kindergartners - SchoolBook - 0 views

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    "Three days a week, as the school day draws to a close, the children in Ms. Aaron's class sit down to compose a message about what they have been doing all day. They then send it out to their parents and relatives through Twitter, the stamping grounds of celebrities and politicians, where few kindergartners have been known to venture."
Amanda Nichols

Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work? | MindShift - 0 views

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    great piece on how instructional and educational pedagogy must shift if technology like cell phones and tablets are to be used successfully in educational situations
Amanda Nichols

How Much Does Blended Learning Cost? -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    Examination of the real costs of blended learning
Amanda Nichols

Intel Develops Small, Sturdy Tablet for Education - Digits - WSJ - 1 views

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    Interesting new tablet development out of Intel - the "studybook"
anonymous

Digital Portfolios for Primary Students! | Powerful Learning Practice - 0 views

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    Example of how lower elementary teacher uses digital portfolio.  Can easily be altered for middle and high school.
Amanda Nichols

The rise of e-reading | Pew Internet Libraries - 0 views

  • A fifth of American adults have read an e-book in the past year and the number of e-book readers grew after a major increase in ownership of e-book reading devices and tablet computers during the holiday gift-giving season
  • The average reader of e-books says she has read 24 books (the mean number) in the past 12 months, compared with an average of 15 books by a non-e-book consumer.
  • Some 41% of tablet owners and 35% of e-reading device owners said they are reading more since the advent of e-content.
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  • There are four times more people reading e-books on a typical day now than was the case less than two years ago
  • E-book reading happens across an array of devices, including smartphones.
  • In a head-to-head competition, people prefer e-books to printed books when they want speedy access and portability, but print wins out when people are reading to children and sharing books with others
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    Pew study on the use of ereaders, ebooks, and ereading
Amanda Nichols

Top 10 Things NOT to do in a 1:1 iPad Initiative « - 1 views

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    While this focus is iPads, it is applicable to any 1:1 device roll-out.  Ideas to keep in mind if/when Clarkston is able to go 1:global.
Amanda Nichols

Search Tip for Students: Try Predicting Your Search Results | MindShift - 2 views

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    Strategy for better searching: predict your search results BEFORE they appear
Amanda Nichols

Create, Capture, Upload: New Site Features Kids' Digital Projects | MindShift - 2 views

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    DIY.org - a site for students to safely create digital portfolios, where others can give comments and feedback.  This looks perfect for K-7 students
Amanda Nichols

Free Internet lessons challenge textbook market for public schools - The Washington Post - 0 views

  • Seventy-four percent of elementary school teachers reported that they used free Internet resources for lessons that they flashed on computerized white boards or offered on desktops or other gadgets, compared with 65 percent who said their digital content came from commercial providers, according to a January survey by Simba Information, a market research company.
  • The survey found that middle and high school teachers also gravitated more toward free online content.
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    Teachers across grade levels are forsaking traditional resources such as textbooks for free, online, and collaboratively-created instructional materials.
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