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Joseph Alvarado

The Innovative Educator: Friending Students on Facebook - 0 views

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shared by Joseph Alvarado on 30 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Joseph Alvarado on 30 Dec 09
     
    This is a great post by a teacher who explains her reasons why more teachers should friend their students on facebook.
Vinson Tan

Meade NG70 SM 20218 - 0 views

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shared by Vinson Tan on 21 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Vinson Tan on 21 Jan 11
     
    the meade ng70 sm 20218 is a wonderful telescope that you can also use for land viewing as well comes with a very reasonable price and will ship almost anywhere in the world
Professional Learning Board

Sound Reading Development - 18 views

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  • Professional Learning Board on 17 Feb 11
     
    There are several reasons why all educators should be aware of best practices in reading instruction. One of the arguments is that sound reading enables improved student understanding across all content areas.
Professional Learning Board

What's Up With All These Standards in Education? - 28 views

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 02 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Professional Learning Board on 02 Mar 11
     
    Standards in education are generally developed for the following reasons: Assessment, Achievement, Accountability, Focus, and Transparency. What do you think?
  • Kathy Lawrence on 03 Mar 11
     
    I'm wondering if the items that you share here are an act of self promotion, or you really believe that they add value to the group. I personally don't find them useful. They are too general and don't really apply to "mission" of this group. I don't mean to be offensive, I just have limited time to check links out.
  • Professional Learning Board on 03 Mar 11
     
    Kathy, You make an excellent point, thank you! I was merely trying to spark some dialogue. I didn't realize that Classroom 2.0 at Diigo was about sharing technology, particularly Web 2.0, links. Again, thanks for pointing that out. Best regards, Ellen
Marc Lijour

Michael Geist - Pulling a Fast One?: Who Is Really Hurt By C-32's Missing Fair Dealing ... - 6 views

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shared by Marc Lijour on 17 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • linking copyright infringement to circumvention is compliant with the WIPO Internet treaties, it is an approach that has been adopted by other countries, and it is one that has been promoted by many groups supportive of copyright reform
  • several countries have proposed or passed legislation that explicitly links circumvention with copyright infringement, including New Zealand, Switzerland, Canada (Bill C-60), India, and Brazil. 
  • Italy permits circumvention for private copying, Greece established a legal right to pursue access, and the Netherlands grants the Justice Department the power to decree access
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  • Bill C-32 currently includes circumvention exceptions for several purposes including privacy, security research, and encryption. Adding fair dealing means adding five categories of new exceptions -  research, private study, news reporting, criticism, and review.
  • The second group of circumventers consists of those Canadians who believe that circumvention is a reasonable exercise of their consumer rights. These include Canadians who unlock their cellphones or format shift a DVD.
  • Consumers unlock their phones because they believe it is their property and they should be entitled to do so (the government agrees as there is an exception for this in C-32).
  • They similarly format shift DVDs because they reasonably believe that purchasing a DVD should entitle them to watch the DVD on the device of their choice
  • the sale of the products is often based on the presumption that the consumer will have the ability to unlock, make a backup, or format shift
  • If the law does not include a fair dealing circumvention exception, teachers will follow guidelines that prohibit circumvention as part of the educational process and students will be stopped from creating mashups or engaging with digital materials in certain ways.
Steve Ransom

Backpack Safety Awareness - 14 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 16 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 16 Jun 11
     
    More reason to go digital
anonymous

OLE Products: Remembering September 11 - 11 views

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shared by anonymous on 25 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 25 Aug 11
     
    Sept 11th will remain in our minds for years to come. In our classes, however, it might get overlooked - for a variety of reasons. Here are some excellent resources to explore and use on that day.
Steve Ransom

Gamers Unlock Protein Mystery That Baffled AIDS Researchers For Years | News & Opinion ... - 25 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 19 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 19 Sep 11
     
    "People have spatial reasoning skills, something computers are not yet good at," Foldit's lead designer Seth Cooper said in a statement. "Games provide a framework for bringing together the strengths of computers and humans."
  • Ben Darr on 20 Sep 11
     
    For luddites who worry about computers replacing people, here is a great counterexample.
Maggie Verster

Leaving digital footprints that count - 26 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 28 Oct 09 - No Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 28 Oct 09
     
    This wiki deals with the reasoning behind and the tools needed to manage your digital footprint
Tero Toivanen

Music Improves Brain Function | LiveScience - 18 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 09 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Laurel Trainor, director of the Institute for Music and the Mind at McMaster University in West Hamilton, Ontario, and colleagues compared preschool children who had taken music lessons with those who did not. Those with some training showed larger brain responses on a number of sound recognition tests given to the children. Her research indicated that musical training appears to modify the brain's auditory cortex.
  • Even a year or two of music training leads to enhanced levels of memory and attention when measured by the same type of tests that monitor electrical and magnetic impulses in the brain.
  • “We therefore hypothesize that musical training (but not necessarily passive listening to music) affects attention and memory, which provides a mechanism whereby musical training might lead to better learning across a number of domains," Trainor said.
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  • Trainor suggested that the reason for this is that the motor and listening skills needed to play an instrument in concert with other people appears to heavily involve attention, memory and the ability to inhibit actions. Merely listening passively to music to Mozart -- or any other composer -- does not produce the same changes in attention and memory.
  • Harvard University researcher Gottfried Schlaug has also studied the cognitive effects of musical training. Schlaug and his colleagues found a correlation between early-childhood training in music and enhanced motor and auditory skills as well as improvements in verbal ability and nonverbal reasoning.
  • The correlation between music training and language development is even more striking for dyslexic children. "[The findings] suggest that a music intervention that strengthens the basic auditory music perception skills of children with dyslexia may also remediate some of their language deficits." Schlaug said.
  • Shahin's main findings are that the changes triggered by listening to musical sound increases with age and the greatest increase occur between age 10 and 13. This most likely indicates this as being a sensitive period for music and speech acquisition.
  • passive listening to music seems to help a person perform certain cognitive tests, at least in the short run. Actual music lessons for kids, however, leads to a longer lasting cognitive success.
  • Tero Toivanen on 09 Nov 09
     
    Even a year or two of music training leads to enhanced levels of memory and attention when measured by the same type of tests that monitor electrical and magnetic impulses in the brain.
Maggie Verster

Facebook Friending 101 for Schools - 52 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 02 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 02 Apr 11
     
    "Facebook has added an incredible complexity to our lives and relationships for one simple reason: it is in writing. The courts have always put things "in writing" in higher esteem above word of mouth. Now that we are inundated with video, text, and photographs and a set of complex relationships - we end up with things "in writing" that are distributed far beyond our true "friends" into places that get us in trouble."
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