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Beginning in 2012, the test will measure students' proficiency with technology in addition to reading, math, science, history, writing, and other subjects. The new test will mark the first time students' technology literacy has been assessed on a national

Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you're an avid hiker and the trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it's not there at all and you'd like to add it. Or maybe you'd like to add some notes about what you found on that site and why you thought it was useful. Starting today you can do all this and tailor Google search results to best meet your needs.

Mark Pesce: Digital Citizenship and the future of Education.

Excellent presentation about The Power of Sharing from Mark Pesce on Vimeo. Sharing make us smarter.

The focal point for this project is How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague. Participating classrooms can write their own summer vacation adventure story or calculate the miles traveled during their vacation. Both activities will be shared via the Internet. Project begins August 31st.

Mark Harrison presents a 30 day program of inner transformation and personal change. Through a process of self-reflection and an engagement with concepts basic to all growth, you are invited to participate in the most important work of your life - the development of your innate potential.

Are all young people digital natives? Many older folks may well be digital immigrants but is there a marked difference in their abilities from digital natives?

This was a link from Joe's suggestion "ASH's 23 Things..." which I really liked. I would like to set up something similar on "my campus".

This article raised some great points about the labels we place on people of a certain age group, but obviously things are more complicated than the convenient labels our society uses to clasify people. The problem I see in the examples cited are the problems of a generation where you ask and it is done. Digital "immigrants" adapt and embrace new technology because of motivation. Their Job!! I agree that we need to utilize the exprience and perspective of my generation (49 yrs, 25 teaching) with the fearless exploration of my students. They show me what they've located and I can help them understand the relative value of what they've found. Help them develope the tools of analysis and I can learn how to get to information I didn't know existed. We don't need labels, we need to inspire students to want to know what's the value of what they've discovered.

"This free online word converter tool will take the contents of a doc or docx file and convert the word text into HTML code. It produces a much cleaner html code than word normally produces. This doc converter strips as many unnecessary styles and extra mark-up code as it can. It does not preserve images but it does preserve html links and other basic html formatting tags like bolding in the conversion process."

In the classrooms of the future, students will use their phone as a computer and instead of raising their hand to ask a question, they'll simply send the teacher a tweet. Imogen Neale reports. Some schools demand students leave their digital devices at home, but Albany Senior High School, north of Auckland, has taken the opposite approach, BYOD. "That means, Bring Your Own Device," explains deputy principal Mark Osborne.

A random addition question worksheet generator with lots of options and levels. Publish your worksheets online and give the link to your student to complete. Worksheets are self marking. You can also print your worksheets. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A useful English and spelling site for finding missing letters in words. Enter the letters you know and question marks for those you don't. A great resource for making word games. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A superb site to find a vast collection of maths worksheets for the whole of the curriculum. Answer keys are supplied for easy marking. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

Techfest International Student Conference is an initiative to bring together the student community and professors with a common research background. TISC marks a step further in our endeavor to promote science and technology among the students by facilitating the exchange of knowledge between academia and industry.

Trends about where an industry is going, particularly one as huge and mind boggling as social insurance innovation, ought to best be considered as directions instead of parallel "did/did not happen" occasions. Yet, don't imagine it any other way, a considerable measure can happen in a year - even in social insurance innovation. In this visitor post, Mark Ott, chief of item at a cloud-based consideration administration framework supplier, highlights five trends doctor's facility administrators can hope to see develop in 2016.

Takshila learning offers best online classes for school students. Study class 6 computer in 2D/3D mode with NCERT guide, mock test papers and practice worksheets for ICSE/CBSE exam to score good marks .

"This is an amazing Google Docs add-on which allows you to make audio and other comments and feedback on students' work. It's a wonderfully easy way to mark homework and assignments. Students can also reply to feedback with audio comments."

In these types of questions, you will be given part of a sentence in bold letters which you have to improve by selecting the correct option. If the sentence is grammatically correct, then mark (e) option No correction required as your answer:

In India, every year on September 5th, Teacher's Day is marked as a tribute to the role played by the educators in society. The 5th of September is the birth anniversary of a brilliant mentor of India, a teacher by profession Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, who was a good edification advocate and a distinguished envoy, academic and president of India, above all a wonderful teacher.

Learning to write is one of the fundamental skills we gain from our time at school. Writing is one of the cornerstones of learning and we devote significant time and energy towards its mastery. Skilled writing is a mark of an educated individual and a skill required for academic success. But in the modern world what makes a skilled writer? What has changed about writing and what literary skills should we focus our attention on.