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Online public schools for grades K-12 | Educators - 0 views

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    K¹² is America's leading online education system for grades K-12. Solve your challenges with award-winning curriculum. Partner with us today.
Lisa Thumann

SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards - Just the Winners - 0 views

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    Some the same as last year's, some newbies on the list compared to the list from May 2007.
Don Lourcey

Education Week: Filtering Fixes - 0 views

  • So what teachers and students in Trussville, Ala., are doing on the Internet might be considered illicit activity in other districts across the country. Lessons in the 4,100-student district near Birmingham include YouTube videos and film trailers, Internet chats with peers in Nigeria or award-winning children’s authors, even blogging sessions and Web research on open search engines such as Google.
  • Attempting to use online social-networking tools, read blogs, or see multimedia presentations on a classroom computer can generate a message that’s become all too familiar in many American schools: Access Denied.
Enrique Rubio Royo

The BOBs - Deutsche Welle - - 3 views

  • ¡Por fin terminó la espera para determinar quiénes ganarán los premios del público de los BOBs 2010! Ya tenemos nominados y ahora es el turno de los internautas de todo el mundo para votar por sus favoritos en las 17 categorías. De entre las cerca de 8.300 propuestas realizadas en la primera fase, el jurado compuesto por conocidos bloggers  de todo el mundo nominó a once candidatos por categoría: seis categorías principales (Mejor Weblog, Mejor Podcast, Mejor Videoblog, Premio Blogwurst,  Premio Reporteros sin Fronteras y Categoría Especial Cambio Climático) y once categorías destinadas al Mejor Weblog por Idioma (alemán, español, inglés, francés, ruso,  portugués, árabe, farsi, chino, indonesio y, por primera vez en los BOBs, bengalí). En total, 187 blogs, podcasts y videoblogs nominados a los que se podrá votar aquí hasta el 14 de abril de 2010.   Al día siguiente, el 15 de abril de 2010, se harán públicos los ganadores en el marco de una gran ceremonia. Esta vez con invitados de excepción. Por primera vez en su historia, los premiados se anunciarán en el marco de re:publica 2010, la conferencia de bloggers e Internet más grande de Alemania, en uno de los escenarios más importantes de Berlín: el Friedrichstadtpalast.
Marc Lijour

Danger: America Is Losing Its Edge In Innovation - CIO Central - CIO Network - Forbes - 7 views

  • Almost every adult I’ve talked with in these countries shares a belief that the path to success is paved with science and engineering.
  • scientists and engineers are celebrities in most countries
  • Already, 70% of engineers with PhD’s who graduate from U.S. universities are foreign-born. Increasingly, these talented individuals are not staying in the U.S – instead, they’re returning home, where they find greater opportunities.
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  • Saudi Arabia has a new university for science and engineering with a staggering $10 billion endowment.
  • In 2009, for the first time, over half of U.S. patents were awarded to non-U.S. companies.
  • China has replaced the U.S. as the world’s number one high-technology exporter.
  • The World Economic Forum ranks the U.S. #48 in quality of math and science education.
  • Five years ago, I was part of a commission that studied U.S. competitiveness. We issued a report called Rising Above the Gathering Storm,
  • Improve K-12 science and math education. Invest in long-term basic research. Attract and retain the best and brightest students, scientists and engineers in the U.S. and around the world. Create and sustain incentives for innovation and research investment.
  • In 2007, Congress passed the America COMPETES Act,
Mauricio Pilco

ClassDojoBehavior Management Software - 0 views

  • "ClassDojo makes it easy to keep my students alert and on-task."
  • Print or email beautiful behavior reports to easily engage parents and staff
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    A superb online class management system. Award points for good behaviour and working hard. Take points away for late homework and being unkind. You can set your own headings to customise for your class. You can even update it using your mobile device's web browser. It's one of the best sites that I have shared. Try it. I will be! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Management+%26+Rewards
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    An amazing website that I use with the children cycles. ClassDojo is a very useful Behavior Management Software
Jazzper I

2009 E-Learning Awards - 24 views

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    Learnosity Voice
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ISO 17021-1:2015 Certification - 0 views

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    The ISO 17021 standard was first published in 2006. All management systems certification bodies (CBS) accredited by IAF signatories awarded two years from the date of publication to ensure compliance with the standard. A new revision of the standard was published in June 2015 and the main changes are explained here.
dsatkins1981

Five Psychological Principles Fueling Gamification : Learning Solutions Magazine - 0 views

  • narratives developed around a learning activity make the activity more engaging and relevant to the learner
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      How could we build content and narrative into an Escape Room to enhance the already value elements such as problems-solving and creative thinking?
  • leveling up should become more difficult as users progress through the material.
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      Designers at Nintendo often say: the best games are simple to play, but difficult to master (i.e. Mario).
  • the brain can only handle a finite amount of information at one time before becoming overloaded.
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  • Better learning happens when this occurs.
  • Gamification has been shown to relieve stress and clear the brain of distractions.
  • “If you play Angry Birds or some other game on your mobile or laptop, you are not thinking about what you are making tonight for dinner. You are thinking about what is going on in the game,” she says.
  • incorporate learning in that experience, it causes a hyper focus on the key learning point.”
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      Some in the field of brain science are finding that multitasking is actually detrimental to task-quality. In other words, each additional task you undertake decreases the quality of your focus on all tasks exponentially and therefore decreases each resultant product. Hyperfocus for limited periods may be much more inline with the way the brain wants to work.
  • on a psychological level, losses can be twice as powerful as gains
  • Individuals will keep playing
  • relieves cognitive overload
  • forges an emotional connection
  • individuals would rather avoid losses than acquire equivalent gains.
  • an individual would prefer to not lose $5, as opposed to finding $5.
  • Users who earn or receive awards as a result of gamification do not want to lose them and, thus, will continue playing in order to retain them.
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      Like sonic the hedgehog losing rings? I like it. On the other hand, what about the evil of our day: microtransactions? Where does that come into play and what are the risks of abuse by designers of gamification in education?
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