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Bradford Saron

20 places to find data for Infographics | 20 after 20 - 0 views

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    Visualizations and infographics are becoming increasingly popular since the NYT has taken them up. Here, you can find sources for all kids of data communicated through innovative visuals. 
Bradford Saron

TeachPaperless: 21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020 - 0 views

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    This is an old post from the teachpaperless blog, but McLeod revisits it once a year. What are your reactions? 
Bradford Saron

Ellen Galinsky: Rethinking How We Learn and Work - 0 views

  • As Linda Stone has written, we can't continue to function on what she calls "continuous partial attention," which she differentiates from multi-tasking. We aren't just shifting from one task to another, she has written, but we are hyper-alert, paying attention to input coming from every direction at the same time, including listening to conversations, responding to computers and smart phones
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    Linda Stone (of the theory conscious computing; here's Jenkin's interview with her: http://goo.gl/7ngpi) is compared to others concerned with scattered brains. Yikes!
Bradford Saron

The Seven Spaces of Technology in School Environments on Vimeo - 0 views

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    This is great. How many of these spaces do you have in your school? What infrastructure, AUPs, development, wireless access, etc. do you need to facilitate these environments? 
Bradford Saron

WatchKnow - Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students - 0 views

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    Want help with your homework? 
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The Political Power of Social Media | Foreign Affairs - 0 views

  • The event marked the first time that social media had helped force out a national leader.
  • How does the ubiquity of social media affect U.S. interests, and how should U.S. policy respond to it?
  • social media have become coordinating tools for nearly all of the world's political movements, just as most of the world's authoritarian governments (and, alarmingly, an increasing number of democratic ones) are trying to limit access to it.
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  • New media conducive to fostering participation can indeed increase the freedoms Clinton outlined, just as the printing press, the postal service, the telegraph, and the telephone did before.
  • Despite this basic truth -- that communicative freedom is good for political freedom -- the instrumental mode of Internet statecraft is still problematic.
  • THE THEATER OF COLLAPSE
  • Opinions are first transmitted by the media, and then they get echoed by friends, family members, and colleagues. It is in this second, social step that political opinions are formed. This is the step in which the Internet in general, and social media in particular, can make a difference. As with the printing press, the Internet spreads not just media consumption but media production as well -- it allows people to privately and publicly articulate and debate a welter of conflicting views.
  • This condition of shared awareness -- which is increasingly evident in all modern states -- creates what is commonly called "the dictator's dilemma" but that might more accurately be described by the phrase coined by the media theorist Briggs: "the conservative dilemma," so named because it applies not only to autocrats but also to democratic governments and to religious and business leaders. The dilemma is created by new media that increase public access to speech or assembly; with the spread of such media, whether photocopiers or Web browsers, a state accustomed to having a monopoly on public speech finds itself called to account for anomalies between its view of events and the public's. The two responses to the conservative dilemma are censorship and propaganda. But neither of these is as effective a source of control as the enforced silence of the citizens. The state will censor critics or produce propaganda as it needs to, but both of those actions have higher costs than simply not having any critics to silence or reply to in the first place. But if a government were to shut down Internet access or ban cell phones, it would risk radicalizing otherwise pro-regime citizens or harming the economy.
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    The power of being digitally social, this is an example in the political arena. This is also what Clay Shirky is talking about in a Cognitive Surplus. This is the power of people collaborating and sharing without consideration of cost, distance, time, copyright, law, etc. Do we want to teach children how to ethically participate in this type of environment? Or, just let them go without any skills or discipline?
Bradford Saron

Learning with 'e's: Web 3.0 and onwards - 0 views

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    The slideshow embedded in this blog is awesome for understanding what Web 3.0 is (or is going to be). Check it out!
Bradford Saron

A vision for media centers - 1 to 1 Schools - 0 views

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    A 1:1 initiative is not sustainable in my mind, but media centers with these types of resources are. The problem here isn't a fiscal one but one of philosophical stance as to what a media center is, what it overs, and how it serves students. This is a great way to dream!
Bradford Saron

Improving team collaboration and productivity with Google Sites - Official Google Docs ... - 0 views

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    You can now develop a "to do" list when working collaboratively on google documents with this gadget. Try it out!
Bradford Saron

FINAL Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 - 0 views

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    Here, you can check out the top 100 learning tools of 2010. How many are you familiar with? 
Bradford Saron

Cognitive Interfund Transfer: Top Web 2.0 Learning Tools for 2010 - 0 views

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    New blog post. 
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Google Shared Spaces - 0 views

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    This is out of Google Labs and is called shared spaces. It uses the old Google Wave widgets. So for those of you disappointed to hear about Google phasing out Wave, this may be a sound replacement. 
Bradford Saron

Cognitive Interfund Transfer: Google's, Year in Searches Video - 0 views

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    New blog post. 
Bradford Saron

Brain scan: Making data dance | The Economist - 0 views

  • “THE biggest myth is that if we save all the poor kids, we will destroy the planet,” says Hans Rosling
  • that it no longer makes sense to consider the world as divided between developing and industrialised countries; and that people everywhere respond similarly to increasing levels of wealth and health, with higher material aspirations and smaller families.
  • The best measure of political stability of a country, he believes, is whether fertility rates are falling, because that indicates that women are being educated and basic health services are being provided.
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  • Within a year Google had bought Gapminder, and a version of the bubble-graph software is now available free online under the name Google Motion Chart.
  • Do the data give any sneak previews of our future? “For most of human history, the world has been dominated by Asia, and it will be again within 40 years,” he says. “While nothing now can stop the surge to 9 billion, if the poorest 2 billion get improved child survival and the ability to buy bicycles and mobile phones, population growth will stop. We cannot have people at this level looking for basics like food and shoes. Lower-middle-income countries will also forge forward—but only if we invest in the right technologies to avoid severe climate change.”
  • “We can stop population growth, we can eradicate poverty, we can solve the energy and the climate issues but we have to make the right investments,” he says. “I know a good world is possible if we leave emotion aside and just work analytically.”
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    The data minded Hans Rosling allows us to peek into his mind and how he approaches the presentation of data and how we can learn from it. I love his approach to change: "Leave emotion aside, and just work analytically." 
Bradford Saron

Google eBookstore - 0 views

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    Here is the new Google, ebookstore, which should rival Amazon's Kindle store or Barnes and Noble's online options. 
Bradford Saron

AASA :: 95 by 5 Dilemma - 0 views

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    5% of our schools are failing, and according to a new report, progress is being made!
Bradford Saron

Americas Promise Alliance - Building a Grad Nation - 0 views

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    This is the report that indicates that progress is being made on the national drop out rate. 
Bradford Saron

Six Social Media Trends for 2011 - David Armano - The Conversation - Harvard Business R... - 0 views

  • It's The Integration Economy, Stupid.
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      Don Tapscott calls this Wikinomics. 
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      I find all of this fascinating and at the same time wonder what it means for those who are not connected. The conversation about social media seems like a white, middle-class one to me. Yet our society is becoming increasingly diverse and, at least in Wisconsin, poorer. What are the consequences of all of this interconnectivity on those who are not able to participate?
  • Tablet & Mobile Wars Create Ubiquitous Social Computing.
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      We've been talking about this for years, the anywhere, any time, all the time type of approach, which now is better facilitated by easy interface access. 
  • Facebook Interrupts Location-Based Networking.
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      I would argue that it transforms our conception of "local." Now, local isn't physically limited, it's digitally liberated. 
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  • Average Participants Experience Social Media Schizophrenia
  • Google Doesn't Beat Them, They Join Them.
  • Social Functionality Makes Websites Fashionable Again
Bradford Saron

Co-designing communication solutions - 0 views

  • How about school-home texting? We’re asking parents if they’d want it. Could we video the next workshop and put it online? Or maybe literacy tips are best shared face-to-face: a teacher, another parent, and I brainstormed together about turning a typical parent breakfast into a Literacy Breakfast that would get the reading tips directly to parents who could ask immediate questions of teacher and literacy coach.
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    Really neat communication ideas for literacy!
Bradford Saron

The Internet's Next Killer App: Work: Tech News « - 0 views

  • We added people based on talent, not on the proximity by location. 
  • In the knowledge economy, not doing so would be foolish and would limit our prospects. The deciding factor was prospective team members’ connectedness.
  • With the rise of broadband, a new factor has come into play: connectedness. Connectedness allows companies big and small to exist as a stateless entity.
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  • We call this shift in idea of work “the human cloud,” and just as cloud computing disrupted the idea of computing and corporate IT infrastructure, the human cloud is shorthand for the intersection of web and work.
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    Great concepts about the intersection of work and life. 
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