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"The huge iPad deployment shows a significant level of trust in the Apple platform -- love it or hate it -- that it's secure enough for banking. Finance, after all, is only one-notch below national security in the grand scheme of data protection priorities."

A great resource for showing children angles inside a triangle. Move the corners to see how the angles change for different types of triangles. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

This is beautiful site showing a zooming tree of life with links to more information for thousands of species. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

These digital tools show promise to support word learning, review, and play with language. They are grouped them into four categories: Reference Tools, Word Clouds, Games and Review, Word Walls and Virtual Field Trips.

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Cesar Millan is the most famous dog and dog owner trainer in the whole world. He built an enterprise out of making unruly dogs behave and teaching clueless dog owners how to become effective pack leaders. He's written six books and four of them became bestsellers. His "Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan" show ran for 8 years and has been nominated for Outstanding Reality Program in the Emmy, making the "Dog Whisperer" brand millions in valuation.

An amazing language learning site which helps learners of MFL remember words for over 200 languages by associating them with visual clues/mnemonics and score points by showing you remember the language in a variety of ways. You can listen to audio of the words you are learning. The site tracks your progress and analyses where you need improvement and it will adjust the words you are shown accordingly. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages%2C+Culture+%26+International+Projects

A great iOS and Android app for editing photos and images to show only selected objects in colour on an otherwise monochrome image. Start with a completely greyscale image and add the colours back by moving your finger over the areas you want.

I'd like to share a couple of videos with you that I have used recently in the courses I teach. I find these videos particularly interesting because they show such contrasting approaches to learning and in particular - for want of a better word - e-learning.

Demo video shows Bloom's taxonomy-based question prompts used to help generate text-based worksheets with the automated, online, lesson preparation tool, LessonWriter.

I tried this tonight...will teach the lesson and see how it goes but it seems useful. I was actually looking for a way to manage my workflow for lesson plans. any suggestions?

Learning Score is an amazing multimedia lesson-planning and delivery tool that uses a music score metaphor to show the range of planned activities for a lesson as a graphical time line.

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Infographic that shows how the law works for pictures.

"During one of the standard visits to see family and friends recently, I came across a childhood game that had captured the imaginations of many a youngster in my generation…Scalextrics! A friend of mine had bought the classic car racing game for his five-year old son and I could not turn down the opportunity of a race…with the reasoning of showing my 11-month old daughter how it works ***cough, cough***."

"Italian psychologist Geatano Kanizsa first described this optical illusion in 1955 as a subjective or illusory contour illusion. The study of such optical illusions has led to an understanding of how the brain and eyes perceive optical information and has been used considerably by artists and designers alike. They show the power of human imagination in filling in the gaps to make implied constructions in our own minds. Kanizsa figures and similar illusions are a really useful way to encourage learners to 'say what they see' and to explain how they see it. It offers a chance for others to become aware of the different views available in a diagram and share their own thoughts without the 'danger' of being wrong; many people see different things."

Android Nougat Nokia Phones Recent leaks show most likely to have 5.2 inch and 5.5 inch OLED displays with QHD resolution and will run on Snapdragon 820 SoC.

There is something about human nature that draws us towards dichotomous patterns of thought; an all or nothing, us or them style of thinking in which an option is either good or it is bad. In such a model complexity and subtle nuance with multiple possible outcomes and routes towards a goal are ignored. The field of educational technology is one where such a pattern is evident and recent ban on technology by a Sydney school shows how this style of analysis can have a significant impact on student learning