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Marielle Palombo

ACOT2 - 16 views

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  • Marielle Palombo on 18 Jan 10
     
    A framework from Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow identifying "six design principles for the 21st century high school"
Dimitris Tzouris

Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education - 10 views

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shared by Dimitris Tzouris on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • So it's worth taking a careful look at whether the company will once again create a new category of device that make waves in education -- as it did with personal computers, digital music players, and smartphones -- or whether the iPad and other tabletss might be doomed to remain a niche offering.
  • Mr. Jobs did mention iTunesU twice when listing the kinds of content that could be viewed on the iPad, referring to the company's partnership with many colleges to offer them free space for multimedia content like lecture recordings. But he otherwise focused on consumer uses -- watching movies, viewing photos, sending e-mail messages, and reading novels published by five trade publishers mentioned at the event. That does not mean that the company won't later promote the iPad's use on campuses, though, since it waited until after iPods and iPhones were established before beginning to work more heavily with colleges to promote those in education.
  • the biggest impact of the iPad would be in the textbook market.
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  • only 2 percent of students said they bought an e-textbook this past fall semester.
  • The City University of New York, for instance, is looking closely at encouraging e-textbooks as part of an effort to lower student costs. "At end of the day, it's how do you drive savings for our students, who are feeling a great economic impact," said Brian Cohen, CUNY's chief information officer.
  • If students do buy them and begin to carry them around campus, they could be a more powerful educational tool than laptop computers.
  • Jim Groom, an instructional technologist at the University of Mary Washington, expressed weariness with all the hype around the Apple announcement. He said he is concerned about Apple's policies of requiring all applications to be approved by the company before being allowed in its store, just as it does with the iPhone. And he said that Apple's strategy is to make the Web more commercial, rather than an open frontier. "It offers a real threat to the Web," he said.
  • He also pointed out that several PC manufacturers have sold tablet computers before, which have been tried enthusiastically in classrooms. Their promise is that they make it easy for professors to walk around classrooms while holding the computer, while allowing them to wirelessly project information to a screen at the front of the room. But despite initial hype, very few PC tablets are being used in college classrooms, he said. Now that Apple's long-awaited secret is out, the harder questions might be whether the iPad is the long-awaited education computer.
anonymous

Building a Better Teacher - NYTimes.com - 20 views

www.nytimes.com/...07Teachers-t.html

Teaching education teacher school Improvement

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  • There was no shortage of prescriptions at the time for how to cure the poor performance that plagued so many American schools. Proponents of No Child Left Behind saw standardized testing as a solution. President Bush also championed a billion-dollar program to encourage schools to adopt reading curriculums with an emphasis on phonics. Others argued for smaller classes or more parental involvement or more state financing.
  • This record encouraged a belief in some people that good teaching must be purely instinctive, a kind of magic performed by born superstars.
Neil O'Sullivan

Army Social Media Handbook 2011 - 0 views

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social media handbook security reference socialmedia

shared by Neil O'Sullivan on 21 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Neil O'Sullivan on 21 Jan 11
     
    Social Media Handbook. from US Army. This is interesting for schools too.
Paul Beaufait

OneLook Dictionary Search - 25 views

www.onelook.com

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shared by Paul Beaufait on 27 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 27 Jan 11
     
    Thanks to Yuly for pointing out this powerful toolkit allowing wildcard searches and including a reverse dictionary. OneLook contains "19,044,271 words in 1062 dictionaries indexed" (home page, bottom line, 2011.01.28). It sub-divides long lists of hits into categories: "General, Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Slang, Sports, Tech, [and] Phrases."
Nikki Red

SEO is a Smart Online Marketing Investment - 1 views

Just a few months ago, my small computer store in Kent was almost to go bankrupt with only a few thousand pounds left in my bank account. Fortunately, a good friend of mine referred me to Nick Redd...

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Linda Muir

The Anatomy Of An Infographic: 5 Steps To Create A Powerful Visual | SpyreStudios - 47 views

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infographics visualization graphics howto

shared by Linda Muir on 09 Aug 11 - Cached
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  • Paul Beaufait on 09 Aug 11
     
    Sneh talks a "walk through the anatomy of an infographic, its different levels and sub-levels[,] and a 5-step process to ensure that your infographic is not only conceptually sound, but accurate and easily understood" (¶ 5, retrieved 2011.08.09).
anonymous

PBL The 21st Century Teaching Method - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 29 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 29 Aug 11
     
    Project Based Learning or what is referred to as PBL is a great instructional method . It is considered as the teaching method of the 21st century. As educators , we do need to know what it is all about and how we can impliemnt it in our teaching to better meet the 21st century educational goals such as crticial thinking, collaboration , communication and creativity. check out PBL The 21st Century Teaching Method to learn more.
BTerres

Encyclopedia of Life - 0 views

www.eol.org

biology encyclopedia nature reference animals wiki resources collaboration

shared by BTerres on 05 Sep 11 - Cached
  • BTerres on 05 Sep 11
     
    The Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), a free and collaborative website, said on Monday it now has pages for each of 750,000 species, meaning more than one-third of all the planet's 1.9m species are now covered. "EoL is the ultimate online field guide for citizen scientists," said Jennifer Preece, dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. "There are many online sites dedicated to specific groups of species such as insects, birds or mammals. Not since Noah, however, has there been an effort like this to bring all the world's species together." The site uses content from 180 partners to bring together images, videos and scientific information, including 35m pages of scanned literature created by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The new site allows members to create their own collection of species. "The virtual collections put life into meaningful contexts from scholarly ones such as Invasive Insects of North America or Endangered Birds of Ecuador to personal collections such as A Checklist of Trees in My Backyard. Only imagination and energy limit the possibilities," said Jesse Ausubel, vice president of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation which helps fund the EoL.
Sheryl A. McCoy

USGS: Maps, Imagery, and Publications - 16 views

www.usgs.gov/pubprod

science environmental_life_science geology USGS resource reference images video maps rss imagery education professional development teacher fieldtrip guide

shared by Sheryl A. McCoy on 18 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Sheryl A. McCoy on 18 Nov 09
     
    a wide variety of resources are available, including free and low cost. There is also an rss feed.
salman shakeel

The Patek Philippe Calatrava - 0 views

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The Patek Philippe Calatrava

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  • salman shakeel on 06 May 11
     
    The Calatrava watch is one of the most emblematic Patek Philippe collections, as its name refers to the brands symbol. It also set the standard for elegance in watchmaking.
Jean Potter

80 Online Tools, References, and Resources | Edutopia Group Discussions by and for Educ... - 49 views

www.edutopia.org/...57108

web2.0 resources tools technology edutopia

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  • Jean Potter on 14 Jul 11
     
    list of online tools from Edutopia - how many have you checked out?
Mendi Benigni

Amazon Announces Digital-Textbook Rentals - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

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Digital-Textbook Higher amazon wired education chronicle rentals

shared by Mendi Benigni on 21 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Students have the option to purchase the e-book during or after a rental period, and can extend rental period in daily increments.
  • Students will also be able to refer to any margin notes and highlights they made in their digital textbooks after the rental period is over
Steve Ransom

Can a Playground Be Too Safe? - NYTimes.com - 13 views

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playground safe safety learning danger

shared by Steve Ransom on 20 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • “If children and parents believe they are in an environment which is safer than it actually is, they will take more risks. An argument against softer surfacing is that children think it is safe, but because they don’t understand its properties, they overrate its performance.”
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 20 Jul 11
       
      True in online social spaces, too!
  • “What happens in America is defined by tort lawyers, and unfortunately that limits
  • “Children need to encounter risks and overcome fears
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  • The best thing is to let children encounter these challenges from an early age, and they will then progressively learn to master them through their play over the years.”
  • “Risky play mirrors effective cognitive behavioral therapy of anxiety,
  • “Older children are discouraged from taking healthy exercise on playgrounds because they have been designed with the safety of the very young in mind,” Dr. Ball said. “Therefore, they may play in more dangerous places, or not at all.”
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 20 Jul 11
       
      Yet another parallel to be found here with online interactions and social/learning spaces. Banning children from these spaces does nothing the teach them how to use them wisely... and they find ways around our filters anyway without the benefit of wise adult guidance.
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