Photo Books, Photo Cards, Scrapbooks, Yearbooks and Calendars | Mixbook - 1 views
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Ivan Beeckmans on 12 May 12Just another tool.
Lavingia dropped out of the University of Southern California to work for Pinterest,
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Block Posters - Create large wall posters from any image for free! - 1 views
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Make HUGE posters based on a picture of smaller size
Zoom.it - 0 views
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Good tool for embedding an image into a blog and allowing zoomability.
dig.ccmixter "You already have permission…" - 0 views
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Excellent music site for sharing and using music
Teenage Whiz-Kid Raises $7 Million For Startup Payments Company - 0 views
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Of particular note is that this person, again, dropped out of USC. Is this proof that learning happens outside the classroom/lecture hall? :)
Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work? | MindShift - 0 views
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Sorry, same article but from the original source.
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“I’m petrified that we’ll apply new technology to old pedagogy,” Soloway said. “Right now, the iPad craze is using the same content on a different device. Schools must change the pedagogy.”
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“It’s the classic cycle of old wine in new bottles that tends to happen when people get excited about the technology itself,”
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Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?| The Committed S... - 0 views
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What I’m hearing from schools more is that they’ve eliminated policies restricting using mobile devices for learning and they’re interested in developing mobile learning programs as fast as possible,”
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“We’re going from districts fearing it and blocking it off to welcoming it and making it a major part of their technology plan. We’ll be surprised if a significant portion of districts aren’t using mobile learning inside and outside of schools soon.”
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“I’m petrified that we’ll apply new technology to old pedagogy,” Soloway said. “Right now, the iPad craze is using the same content on a different device. Schools must change the pedagogy.”
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Google Course Asks Employees to Take a Deep Breath - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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“Now how do we keep them? Teaching employees with terrific technical abilities also means helping them to develop presentation skills and communication skills, helping them to understand their impact on other people, their ability to collaborate across groups and cultivate a mentality from which great motivation can spring.”
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Interesting article about how even successful organizations need to reflect and learn about their teaching and learning practices. On page 4 they speak to the skills we all know we need to teach: presentation and communication skills, how to collaborate.
The End of the Full-Time Salaried Job: How to Freelance | Moneyland | TIME.com - 4 views
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projected that there could be 70 million free agents by 2020
Think Before You Post! | Visual.ly - 3 views
The disappearing virtual library - Opinion - Al Jazeera English - 0 views
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But both are missing the point: the global demand for learning and scholarship is not being met by the contemporary publishing industry. It cannot be, not with the current business models and the prices. The users of library.nu - these barbarians at the gate of the publishing industry and the university - are legion.
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They are a global market engaged in what we in the elite institutions of the world are otherwise telling them to do all the time: educate yourself; become scholars and thinkers; read and think for yourselves; bring civilisation, development and modernity to your people.
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Library.nu was making that learning possible where publishers have not
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Getting ready for iPad deployment: ten things I'd wish I'd known about last y... - 0 views
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but unless you get buy in from your whole school community then you’re going to be up against it.
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it is about getting the infrastructure in place
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And this does not only mean things like wireless: it includes the intellectual, pedagogical infrastructure that brings with it an understanding of both the benefits and pitfalls of bringing these devices into the classroom
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This article describes the deployment of iPads, but many of the issues are similar to those considered when introducing ANY new technology.
What You (Really) Need to Know - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Education will be more about how to process and use information and less about imparting it.
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An inevitable consequence of the knowledge explosion is that tasks will be carried out with far more collaboration.
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New technologies will profoundly alter the way knowledge is conveyed.
Eight brief points about "merit pay" for teachers | Daniel Pink - 0 views
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The notion that the central problem in American education is lack of teacher motivation is ludicrous.
How the music industry managed to screw itself so spectacularly - Simply Zesty - Simply... - 0 views
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