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Marc Patton

Snappii :: Make app for iPhone, iPad and Android without programming in minutes | Inexp... - 6 views

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    Snappii is a platform for creating custom mobile apps.
anonymous

100 Powerful Search Engines You May Not Know About | Edudemic - 5 views

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    Posting on edudemic
Roland Gesthuizen

Free Technology for Teachers: What's Obvious to You, Is Amazing to Someone Else - 129 views

  • The great thing about sharing online is that you never know who is going to discover what you share. Something that you think has been said one hundred times over might be brand new to someone else. We all have something to share.
  • having students write a weekly reflective blog post. They don't have to write complex blog posts, just a short summary of their learning and observations that week will do. In this way students can learn from each other. Even if they don't pick up anything brand new from this process, they will at least be reminding each other of what they have learned that week.
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    One of the reasons I sometimes hear people give for not blogging, Tweeting, or otherwise participating in sharing their ideas online is, "I don't have anything to say." To that I often reply, "yes, you do."
A Gardner

Meet the District Rolling Out 25,000 iPads and iPods -- THE Journal - 5 views

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    McAllen, TX: all studs, teachers, admins get a mobile device
Matthew Henry

An Open Letter to Students: You're the Game Changer in Next-Generation Learning (EDUCAU... - 120 views

  • I'll be blunt here. It's going to be hard for you to be heard as a credible advocate if you don't first lay down the gauntlet. That happens when you own key educational responsibilities and make the demand that if you fulfill these, you expect your claim to your core educational rights to be taken seriously. Simply put, your doing so could change the conversation completely—to one that is more literally and figuratively constructive
  • Knowing your larger purpose enables you to do what comes next.
  • Engagement means literally transforming the way you think and committing yourself to building those skill-sets you don't currently possess.
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  • you have to be willing to engage at a high level.
  • Our decisions, models, and innovations should be based, first, on learning.
  • learning-centered, data-rich, high-value pathways to your educational goal
  • not using technology
  • the learning-centered progression, one-on-one mentor model ensures that students and faculty engage on learning data early and often and that both regulate learning and navigate to completion
  • We in higher education should do the work to ensure that your learning is tied to the competencies expected in these career paths.
  • because of the rate of change in industry and society, we are probably preparing you for jobs that don't exist yet and life experiences you can't anticipat
Joanna Gerakios

The Top Educational iPad Apps Every Teacher and Student should Know about ( 100+) - 166 views

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    apps arranged as they support concepts such as 21st Century Skills, Bloom's taxonomy, Gardner's multiple intelligences, digital learning and more...
Lisa Francine

Digital Passport - Commonsense Media - 1 views

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    Digital Citzenship curriculum for 3rd - 5th graders
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    Digital Citzenship curriculum for 3rd - 5th graders
Elizabeth Resnick

Supercomputers help prepare New Orleans for Hurricane Isaac - ComputerworldUK.com - 5 views

  • completed in 1.5 hours.
  • The computer models, which are being run at the Louisiana State University's Center for Computation and Technology, help to inform emergency planners what roads will flood and neighborhoods cut off.
  • They are being used to help determine the best staging areas for positioning people and supplies needed for the recovery, said Twilley.
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  • "They can look down at neighborhood scale and say 'on this street along the levy we're going to have water this high,' and plan accordingly," Dietrich said.
  • Comparing the capability today with that at the time of Katrina, Dietrich said:
  • "I think we have a very strong understanding of how hurricane wave storm develop and how they can threaten a coastal environment."
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    the new supercomputer capabilities are much better now than they were during Katrina 7 years ago.  They help position people and supplies in the areas needed for the recovery, and determine which roads will flood.
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