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Jennifer Lamkins

C-SPAN Classroom | Free Primary Source Materials For Social Studies Teachers - 7 views

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  • Jennifer Lamkins on 08 Feb 13
     
    This site contains lesson plans as well as resource information for various levels of teaching government, civics, and history. The Classroom Web site hosts numerous contests throughout the year, as well as great give-aways for teachers. (For example, during the 2004 campaign, they gave teachers huge Electoral College maps.)
Clif Mims

iCue - 0 views

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  • Clif Mims on 12 May 08
     
    A fun, innovative learning environment built around videos from the NBC News Archives. Connections to classes in history, politics, government, writing, literacty, media, and more.
Kris Abel

Private Hire Car Apps to Test Cab Regulations - 0 views

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shared by Kris Abel on 02 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Kris Abel on 02 Nov 12
     
    "Smartphone apps allowing consumers to book private hire cars on demand instead of a taxi may be illegal, the New South Wales government says. It's going to piss off a few people but when the dust settles people will realise that ultimately it's just offering more choices to Australian consumers for ground transportation."
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  • Brevity Software Solutions Pvt Ltd on 16 May 16
     
    Brevity Software Solutions is best event management software development company in India. We provides complete solutions software for different Corporate and Conference Management, Management/Event and Planning Portal, different Online Scheduling, Ticketing and Event Registration. Brevity has experience to provide solutions for Industries and organizations such as Associations, Companies, Educational Institutes, Government Bodies as well as Non-Profit Organizations.
Dean Mantz

Home - Who Runs Gov - Government directory - 0 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 23 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 23 Jan 09
     
    Start your Search SEARCH Go advanced search Browse Profiles advertisement GovRank * Administration Officials (38) * Hill staffers (22) * Political appointees (17) * Members of Congress (17) * Lobbyists (15) Most Viewed Profiles As of Jan. 22, 2009 | 1:19AM Barack Obama Read edits As of Jan. 21, 2009 | 6:20PM Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) Read edits As of Jan. 22, 2009 | 9:50PM Jason Furman Read edits As of Jan. 22, 2009 | 6:43PM Hillary Rodham Clinton Read edits As of Jan. 22, 2009 | 5:51AM Caroline Kennedy Read edits Latest Headlines * Obama Says New $825 Billion Stimulus Plan Is 'on Target' washingtonpost.com, Fri, 23 Jan 2009 * Successor Chosen for Clinton's Senate Seat washingtonpost.com, Fri, 23 Jan 2009 * Does a Glass Ceiling Persist in Politics? washingtonpost.com, Fri, 23 Jan 2009 * Stimulus Plan Meets More GOP Resistance washingtonpost.com, Fri, 23 Jan 2009 * Senate Gets Reacquainted With McCain the Maverick washingtonpost.com, Fri, 23 Jan 2009 Partners Home > Home Table of contents 1. 1. 1. 1.1.1. In the News 2. 2. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) 3. 3. Recently Added Profiles 4. 4. The Plum LineGreg Sargent's blog 1. 1. 4.1.1. NRCC: The Economy Is "Robust" 2. 4.1.2. Featured Blog Posts 5. 5. In the LoopBy Al Kamen 1. 1. 5.1.1. Recent Columns WhoRunsGov.com offers a unique look at the world of Washington through its key players and personalities. It's your window into how deals get made and policy is shaped in the new Obama administration that is remaking the nation's capital
Barbara Lindsey

Fluid Learning | the human network - 0 views

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shared by Barbara Lindsey on 26 Dec 08 - Cached
  • There must be a point to the exercise, some reason that makes all the technology worthwhile. That search for a point – a search we are still mostly engaged in – will determine whether these computers are meaningful to the educational process, or if they are an impediment to learning.
  • What’s most interesting about the computer is how it puts paid to all of our cherished fantasies of control. The computer – or, most specifically, the global Internet connected to it – is ultimately disruptive, not just to the classroom learning experience, but to the entire rationale of the classroom, the school, the institution of learning. And if you believe this to be hyperbolic, this story will help to convince you.
  • A student about to attend university in the United States can check out all of her potential instructors before she signs up for a single class. She can choose to take classes only with those instructors who have received the best ratings – or, rather more perversely, only with those instructors known to be easy graders. The student is now wholly in control of her educational opportunities, going in eyes wide open, fully cognizant of what to expect before the first day of class.
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  • it has made the work of educational administrators exponentially more difficult. Students now talk, up and down the years, via the recorded ratings on the site. It isn’t possible for an institution of higher education to disguise an individual who happens to be a world-class researcher but a rather ordinary lecturer. In earlier times, schools could foist these instructors on students, who’d be stuck for a semester. This no longer happens, because RateMyProfessors.com effectively warns students away from the poor-quality teachers.
  • If we are smart enough, we can learn a lesson here and now that we will eventually learn – rather more expensively – if we wait. The lesson is simple: control is over. This is not about control anymore. This is about finding a way to survive and thrive in chaos.
  • The battle for control over who stands in front of the classroom has now been decisively lost by the administration in favor of the students.
  • That knowledge, once pooled, takes on a life of its own, and finds itself in places where it has uses that its makers never intended.
  • This one site has undone all of the neat work of tenure boards and department chairs throughout the entire world of academia.
  • When broken down to its atomic components, the classroom is an agreement between an instructor and a set of students. The instructor agrees to offer expertise and mentorship, while the students offer their attention and dedication. The question now becomes what role, if any, the educational institution plays in coordinating any of these components. Students can share their ratings online – why wouldn’t they also share their educational goals? Once they’ve pooled their goals, what keeps them from recruiting their own instructor, booking their own classroom, indeed, just doing it all themselves?
  • the possibility that some individuals or group of individuals might create their own context around the lectures. And this is where the future seems to be pointing.
  • the shape of things to come. But there are some other trends which are also becoming visible. The first and most significant of these is the trend toward sharing lecture material online, so that it reaches a very large audience.
  • Why not create a new kind of “Open University”, a website that offers nothing but the kinds of scheduling and coordination tools students might need to organize their own courses?
  • In this near future world, students are the administrators.
  • Now since most education is funded by the government, there will obviously be other forces at play; it may be that “administration”, such as it is, represents the government oversight function which ensures standards are being met. In any case, this does not look much like the educational institution of the 20th century – though it does look quite a bit like the university of the 13th century, where students would find and hire instructors to teach them subjects.
  • The lecturer now helps the students find the material available online, and helps them to make sense of it, contextualizing and informing their understanding. even as the students continue to work their way through the ever-growing set of information. The instructor can not know everything available online on any subject, but will be aware of the best (or at least, favorite) resources, and will pass along these resources as a key outcome of the educational process. The instructor facilitates and mentors, as they have always done, but they are no longer the gatekeepers, because there are no gatekeepers,
  • The classroom in this fungible future of student administrators and evolved lecturers is any place where learning happens.
  • At one end of the scale, students will be able work online with each other and with an lecturer to master material; at the other end, students will work closely with a mentor in a specialist classroom. This entire range of possibilities can be accommodated without much of the infrastructure we presently associate with educational institutions. The classroom will both implode – vanishing online – and explode – the world will become the classroom.
  • Flexibility and fluidity are the hallmark qualities of the 21st century educational institution. An analysis of the atomic features of the educational process shows that the course is a series of readings, assignments and lectures that happen in a given room on a given schedule over a specific duration. In our drive to flexibility how can we reduce the class into to essential, indivisible elements? How can we capture those elements? Once captured, how can we get these elements to the students? And how can the students share elements which they’ve found in their own studies?
  • This is the basic idea that’s guiding Stanford and MIT: recording is cheap, lecturers are expensive, and students are forgetful. Somewhere in the middle these three trends meet around recorded media. Yes, a student at Stanford who misses a lecture can download and watch it later, and that’s a good thing. But it also means that any student, anywhere, can download the same lecture.
  • Every one of these recordings has value, and the more recordings you have, the larger the horde you’re sitting upon. If you think of it like that – banking your work – the logic of capturing everything becomes immediately clear.
Kris Abel

More emails hacked as 'revenge' for education cuts - 0 views

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  • Kris Abel on 31 Oct 12
     
    The hacking of the email account of the NSW director-general of education was not an isolated case in the department and insiders are apparently conducting a cyber campaign as "revenge" for education cuts and management decisions. Read more: 
Kris Abel

Assurance sought on data retention plan | The Australian - 0 views

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  • Kris Abel on 02 Nov 12
     
    "A JOINT parliamentary committee examining Labor’s controversial data retention plans has again sought assurances on the vexed question of what it wants stored." Read More.....
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Dean Mantz

Educating About Intellectual Property - 7 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 11 Jun 10 - Cached
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    Funded by federal government. Curriculum, webinars, podcasts, links and more about Copyright and Fair Use in Education.
Dean Mantz

Inauguration Day Resources | Welcome to NCS-Tech! - 0 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 15 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 15 Jan 09
     
    K-8 educational technology reources covering the Presidential inauguration.
Jeff Johnson

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - ICT Literacy Maps - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 31 May 08 - Cached
  • In collaboration with several content area organizations, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills developed a series of ICT Literacy Maps illustrating the intersection between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy and core academic subjects including English, mathematics, science and social studies (civics/government, geography, economics, history). The maps enable educators to gain concrete examples of how ICT Literacy can be integrated into core subjects, while making the teaching and learning of core subjects more relevant to the demands of the 21st century.
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