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Janet Ilko

Google Launches New Search Education Site with Lesson Plans - 0 views

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    Google Launches New Search Education Site with Lesson Plans Google has launched a new site called Search Education aimed at educators who want to teach online search strategies. The site includes lesson plans geared at different levels of expertise - beginner, intermediate and advanced- as well as training videos that walk through different strategies for subjects like using Creative Commons and Google maps.
Janet Ilko

A Google a Day - 0 views

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    Welcome to the new daily puzzle from Google. There is no right way to solve it, but there's only one right answer. Find the answer with your creativity and clever search skills.
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    I found this activity that might work as we come back from spring break. So many students have issues with searching vs. surfing, this might be a fun way to incorporate the various google search engines, will let you know what plan I develop from this.
Kevin Hodgson

Building Web Search Skills the Fun Way - with a Google a Day | Powerful Learning Practice - 0 views

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    An activity for building knowledge of search?
Janet Ilko

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Twitter In Schools-A Getting Started Guide - 0 views

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    Using twitter in the classroom 
Janet Ilko

Making Paper Blogs to Prepare for the Online Experience | The Inspired Classroom - 0 views

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    I've decided to take my students on a fun-filled blogging journey for the last few weeks of school. In some ways I think I might be crazy trying to do this in such little time, but my guts are telling me to, "Just do it!" I'm glad I listened!
Janet Ilko

Jacqueline Brown~ Zoologist - 1 views

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    mentor text for blog
Janet Ilko

1 - Purpose and History - Macworld2012 - 0 views

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    Poetry Slam site
Kevin Hodgson

Reclaiming the Web for the Next Generation | DMLcentral - 0 views

  • These startups grow up into many-headed hydras with a thirst for the most intimate details about our online habits
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      I agree, and with the push for innovation and the "next big thing," we often give up privacy and information without even realizing it.
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  • I often come across people willing trade privacy for convenience.
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  • when you are not paying for something, then you are the product.
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      We see this a lot with educational spaces. They are free (so teachers are apt to try them to save money that they don't have in their classroom budget) but then forget what they are trading: the eyes of their students, and advertising dollars.
  • we need to be able to see the damage we are causing as a first step toward solving it. Words, like the ones you are reading now, often are not enough.
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      But I also like to think that, as a teacher, direct lessons around privacy and digital lives can make a difference, if not immediate, then long-term. I remain hopeful of that.
  • First, our collective move away from open standards and decentralisation means that choosing to use a different service involves significant social impact. Second, even if an alternative does rear its head, the ending is all-too-familiar: it is acquired and swallowed by one of the huge incumbents
  • Each subsidiary company is branded differently, so we often forget where all the data streams are ultimately heading.
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      So true.
  • We are training for compliance rather than creating an informed, questioning citizenry.
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      Again, another teaching moment that often gets lost. What about teaching how to read "terms of service" agreements? Eh?
  • For the next generation, will they know the difference between the Internet and Google or Facebook? Will they, to put it bluntly, know the difference between a public good and a private company?
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      Here is the question that haunts me as a teacher, and as a parent.
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