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ronhustvedt

National Archives Experience - 14 views

www.digitalvaults.org

archives database library primarysources secondarysources historyday

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  • ronhustvedt on 22 Nov 10
     
    Surf through over 10 billion records.....okay, so they did for you but there are over 1,200 here for you and they are ALL awesome! Your topic is probably here so look for it.
Jim Brinling

Education Secretary Arne Duncan - WBUR and NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook - 0 views

www.onpointradio.org/...ducation-secretary-arne-duncan

Duncan NCLB education future

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  • Jim Brinling on 06 Mar 09
     
    The U.S. secretary of education always has a big bully pulpit. President Barack Obama's brand new secretary of education, Chicago's Arne Duncan, has a big bully pulpit plus a huge pile of stimulus money - one hundred billion dollars - to shake up American education.
Kevin Kaeser

Inside Islam - What a Billion Muslims Really Think - Summify - 36 views

summify.com/...slam-what-billion-muslims.html

world history islam

shared by Kevin Kaeser on 05 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Kevin Kaeser on 05 Sep 11
     
    great video about the thoughts of the followers of Islam
Steve Ransom

Budget Idea: Divert Money From Prisons to Schools | Miller-McCune | Miller-McCune - 16 views

www.miller-mccune.com/...-from-prisons-to-schools-30187

education prison reform budget money

shared by Steve Ransom on 18 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Over the last 40 years, America’s inmate population has quadrupled, from 500,000 to 2.3 million, giving the U.S. 5 percent of the world’s population, but 25 percent of its prisoners. The country now spends $70 billion a year — $50 billion of it at the state level — locking up all of these people, many of whom are nonviolent offenders snagged in the war on drugs.
  • Steve Ransom on 18 Apr 11
     
    "Over the last 40 years, America's inmate population has quadrupled, from 500,000 to 2.3 million, giving the U.S. 5 percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of its prisoners."
Mary Phillips

World of 7 Billion | Population Education, PSA Contest for Students - 3 views

www.worldof7billion.org

world of 7 billion ecology social studies science film production

shared by Mary Phillips on 22 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Mary Phillips on 22 Apr 12
     
    Neat resource for exploring the impact the world's population has on our resources and a perspective on how we got here. Site features a student video contest.
Virginia Meadow

Asteroid Watch - jpl.nasa.gov - 1 views

www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch

astroids comets solar system interactives

shared by Virginia Meadow on 23 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Virginia Meadow on 23 Sep 09
     
    Asteroids and comets are believed to be ancient remnants of the earliest years of the formation of our solar system more than four billion years ago. From the beginning of life on Earth to the recent spectacular impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, these so-called 'small bodies' play a key role in many of the fundamental processes that have shaped the planetary neighborhood in which we live.
Cindy Edwards

Turnitin : Leading Plagiarism Checker, Online Grading and Peer Review - 60 views

turnitin.com

copyright student_testing

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 06 Oct 12
     
    "Ensures original work by checking submitted papers against 20+ billion web pages, 220+ million student papers and leading library databases and publications. Saves time and improves feedback through online grading where standard and customized marks appear directly on the student's paper. "
  • Marc Patton on 25 Jan 13
     
    Check papers against 24+ billion web pages, 250+ million student papers and 110,000+ publications. Save instructors' time while providing rich feedback on student written work. Improve student writing by engaging them in the peer review process.
Gerald Carey

NASA - The Space Shuttle - 49 views

www.nasa.gov/...the_shuttle

space nasa shuttle

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  • Gerald Carey on 09 Apr 11
     
    From the site: "Since 1981, NASA space shuttles have been rocketing from the Florida coast into Earth orbit. The five orbiters - Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour - have flown more than 130 times, carrying over 350 people into space and travelling more than half a billion miles, more than enough to reach Jupiter. Designed to return to Earth and land like a giant glider, the shuttle was the world's first reusable space vehicle. More than all of that, though, the shuttle program expanded the limits of human achievement and broadened our understanding of our world. In this feature, we look back at the Shuttle's historic missions, the people it flew into space, and its achievements."
Mr Agraz

South Korea plans $10 billion stimulus package to boost jobs, social welfare subsidies - 2 views

www.cnbc.com/...-social-welfare-subsidies.html

macroeconomics fiscal policy aggregate demand

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  • Mr Agraz on 21 Apr 20
     
    Government spending - South Korea
Martin Burrett

Being happy in Bradford via #BGShappiness - UKEdChat.com - 5 views

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mental health happiness

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  • Martin Burrett on 24 Mar 17
     
    "With a major focus on wellbeing and mental-health among many communities around the UK, staff and pupils at Bradford Grammar School are taking things one step further, with a 'Spotlight on Happiness' focusing on actions that can improve the mental resilience of all. In tandem with the England government's pledge of £1.25 billion to improve children and young people's mental health services, the Department of Health and NHS England published 'Future in mind', with a proposal to encourage schools to continue to develop 'whole school approaches' to promoting emotional well-being and mental health."
Mark Blaisdell

Technology in Education: An Overview - Education Week - 28 views

www.edweek.org/...technology-in-education

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  • $3 billion per year on digital content.
    • Mark Blaisdell
      Mark Blaisdell on 30 Mar 17
       
      thats a ton of money
  • he booming ed-tech industry, with corporate titans and small startups alike vying for a slice of an $8 billion-plus ye
  • to even the most rural and remote schools.
ICTCC JS

Internet Archive: Wayback Machine - 9 views

archive.org/web.php

archive Internet history wayback web

shared by ICTCC JS on 09 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. Keyword searching is not currently supported.
  • ICTCC JS on 20 May 13
     
    type in an internet address, and explore its evolution! You can go way back! Check out your school site, local business, etc
robbiejkb

Students First, Not Stuff - 71 views

www.ascd.org/...Students-First,-Not-Stuff.aspx

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    • robbiejkb
      robbiejkb on 24 Jul 13
       
      Is this really new? What about textbooks, Dvd's educational resources?
    • robbiejkb
      robbiejkb on 24 Jul 13
       
      Haven't students always come first?
  • a discrete set of standards and outcomes
  • we've spent billions of dollars on technology that by almost every measure has had little or no widespread effect.
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  • students more engaged
  • productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces wanting to learn more
  • manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information,
  • attention literacy—the ability to exert some degree of mental control over our use of technology rather than simply being distracted by it
  • "learning ready,"
  • MIT Open Courseware or courses offered through Khan Academy will provide all the knowledge they need to pass a typical test on the subject
  • learn, MIT Open Courseware or courses offered through Khan Academy will provide all the knowledge they need to pass a typical test on the subject.
  • The reality is that I no longer need to send my children to a school to learn algebra, U.S. history, or French.
  • That doesn't mean that we throw all information and knowledge out of the curriculum. No question, all kids need to be able to read and write effectively, understand enough math to function in their daily lives, and have a basic understanding of science, history, and more. But we must be willing to consider that in a world full of access to knowledge and information, it may be more important to develop students who can take advantage of that knowledge when they need it than to develop students who memorize a slice of information that schools offer in case they might need it someday
  • But giving students devices and access is only a small part of the equation
Sonja Phillips

Two Billion Miles: interactive video story - 76 views

twobillionmiles.com

refugee which-way choices refugees news

shared by Sonja Phillips on 04 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Sonja Phillips on 04 Jan 16
     
    Take a journey from Africa through Italy to Europe - if successful, you might be able to stay. If not, you could be deported or worse.
Trevor Grimes

Education Week - Google+ - 31 views

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  • Education Week  -  12:37 PM  -  PublicIn the budget proposal unveiled by President Obama yesterday, he requested $69.8 million in discretionary spending for the U.S. Department of Education in the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, an increase of $1.7 billion, or 2.5 percent, over the current budget year. Read through the education-related specifics here.
Norma Moore

Main Page - GigaPan Time Machine - 49 views

timemachine.gigapan.org

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  • Norma Moore on 07 Jun 12
     
    Main Page Jump to: From GigaPan Time Machine Explore simultaneously in space and time with GigaPan Time Machine Each Time Machine on this page captures a process in extreme detail over space and time, with billions of pixels of explorable resolution. Choose a time machine and zoom into the image while traveling backwards or forwards through time.
Stephanie Gray

Student Resource Center Gold Document - 0 views

find.galegroup.com/...retrieve.do

shared by Stephanie Gray on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Buffalo Ridge is a plateau stretching 150 miles from Sisseton, S.D. to Storm Lake, Iowa. There, amid corn and soybean crops, some 670 wind turbines spin steady gusts of wind into energy. Over the course of a year an average of 1 billion kilowatt-hours can be generated, enough for 172,000 households.
    • Stephanie Gray
      Stephanie Gray on 24 Apr 09
       
      Testing out the use of Diigo in the databases.
Miguel Rodriguez

A Textbook Example of What's Wrong with Education | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/muddle-machine

shared by Miguel Rodriguez on 24 Jul 09 - Cached
  • A Textbook Example of What's Wrong with Education A former schoolbook editor parses the politics of educational publishing.by Tamim Ansary var addthis_options = 'delicious, digg, facebook, google, reddit, stumbleupon, twitter, more'; Print Forward addthis_pub = 'glef'; Share Comments(38) Comment RSS Click to enlarge pictureThe Muddle Machine Credit: Monte Wolverton Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas. Not so. I got a hint of things to come when I overheard my boss lamenting, "The books are done and we still don't have an author! I must sign someone today!" Every time a friend with kids in school tells me textbooks are too generic, I think back to that moment. "Who writes these things?" people ask me. I have to tell them, without a hint of irony, "No one." It's symptomatic of the whole muddled mess that is the $4.3 billion textbook business. Textbooks are a core part of the curriculum, as crucial to the teacher as a blueprint is to a carpenter, so one might assume they are conceived, researched, written, and published as unique contributions to advancing knowledge.
    • Miguel Rodriguez
      Miguel Rodriguez on 24 Jul 09
       
      I have worked as an editor for an educational publisher myself and, let me tell you, a lot of this sounds really familiar!
Justin Medved

The state of the Digital Union - - 9 views

www.state.gov/...135519.htm

21st_Century_Curriculum

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  • This is an important speech on a very important subject. But before I begin, I want to just speak briefly about Haiti, because during the last eight days, the people of Haiti and the people of the world have joined together to deal with a tragedy of staggering proportions. Our hemisphere has seen its share of hardship, but there are few precedents for the situation we’re facing in Port-au-Prince. Communication networks have played a critical role in our response. They were, of course, decimated and in many places totally destroyed. And in the hours after the quake, we worked with partners in the private sector; first, to set up the text “HAITI” campaign so that mobile phone users in the United States could donate to relief efforts via text messages. That initiative has been a showcase for the generosity of the American people, and thus far, it’s raised over $25 million for recovery efforts.
  • Information networks have also played a critical role on the ground. When I was with President Preval in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, one of his top priorities was to try to get communication up and going. The government couldn’t talk to each other, what was left of it, and NGOs, our civilian leadership, our military leadership were severely impacted. The technology community has set up interactive maps to help us identify needs and target resources. And on Monday, a seven-year-old girl and two women were pulled from the rubble of a collapsed supermarket by an American search-and-rescue team after they sent a text message calling for help. Now, these examples are manifestations of a much broader phenomenon.
  • The spread of information networks is forming a new nervous system for our planet. When something happens in Haiti or Hunan, the rest of us learn about it in real time – from real people. And we can respond in real time as well. Americans eager to help in the aftermath of a disaster and the girl trapped in the supermarket are connected in ways that were not even imagined a year ago, even a generation ago. That same principle applies to almost all of humanity today. As we sit here, any of you – or maybe more likely, any of our children – can take out the tools that many carry every day and transmit this discussion to billions across the world.
  • Justin Medved on 27 Jan 10
     
    Recent speech by Hillary Clinton
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