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Marc Patton

Six Lingering Obstacles to Using Technology in Schools | MindShift - 1 views

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    Though educators are finding smart ways to integrate technology and learning, the road has been and continues to be challenging on multiple fronts. The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 K-12 Edition, a collaboration between the New Media Consortium, the Consortium for School Networking, and the International Society for Technology in Education, takes the birds-eye view and encapsulates some of the significant challenges that must still be addressed and offers the following assessment.
Marc Patton

The New Media Consortium | Sparking innovation, learning and creativity. - 26 views

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    The NMC (New Media Consortium) is an international community of experts in educational technology - from the practitioners who work with new technologies on campuses every day; to the visionaries who are shaping the future of learning at think tanks, labs, and research centers; to its staff and board of directors; to the advisory boards and others helping the NMC conduct cutting edge research.
Scott Garrigan

DAISY: Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium - 0 views

  • 2009-06-30Amazon Kindle DX Pilot Program Discriminates Against the Blind
    • Scott Garrigan
       
      Check out this link. It highlights the difference between a "text reader," which many applications provide, and a "book reader" that includes navigation by chapter and page number, the ability to skip parts, and a knowledge of the normal parts of a book (like table of contents, footnotes, sidebar, etc.)
  • DAISY Makes Reading Easier (YouTube Video)  transcript
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    DAISY Consortium for an international standard in audio book publishing and reading.
Carl Bogardu

The Concord Consortium | Realizing the Promise of Educational Technology - 64 views

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    Current issue is out, link to it on page.
Jennie Snyder

SCOE: Resources: Instruction: Technology for Learners: Smarter Balanced Assessment - 46 views

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    A resource page posted by the Sonoma County Office of Education on the Smarter Balanced Consortium assessments.
Marc Patton

VREP - 42 views

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    The Virtual Reality Education Pathfinder (VREP) is an educational initiative and partnership between government, education, and industry creating an ever-growing consortium of schools and businesses committed to bringing a new kind of learning and teaching to schools across the country.
Rachel Hinton

The Concord Consortium | Revolutionary digital learning for science, math and engineering - 65 views

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    The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit educational research and development organization based in Concord, Massachusetts. We create interactive materials that exploit the power of information technologies.
Randolph Hollingsworth

SECME, Inc. - Diversity in STEM Education - 10 views

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    "Our Mission To increase the pool of historically underrepresented and under-served students who will be prepared to enter and complete post-secondary studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); thus creating a diverse and globally competitive workforce." Started in 1975 as Southeastern Consortium for Minorities in Engineering by engineering deans at AL, FL, GA Tech, USC, UTn, Tuskegee - now partners in 17 states
donnatmachado

YouTube - Learning to Change-Changing to Learn - 41 views

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    Learning to Change Changing to Learn Advancing K-12 Technology Leadership, Consortium for School Networking(COSN) Video
Steve Ransom

District Administrators See Advantages of Web 2.0 in School : May 2009 : THE Journal - 0 views

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    While K-12 district administrators are "overwhelmingly positive" about the value of Web 2.0 in schools, the use of Web 2.0 tools in actual learning environments is "quite limited," according to the results of a new study from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a professional association for district technology leaders.
Derrick Grose

slic 28-1 Roland Case - 24 views

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    In this resource, Roland Case, and the Critical Thinking Consortium explore nine kinds of questions that can be posed of historical and contemporary drawings, paintings and photographs, and explore the "tools" that students need to cross-examine images in response to these different questions.
Roland Gesthuizen

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf - 44 views

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    The NMC Horizon Report: 2011 K-12 Edition .. is produced by the NMC in collaboration with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) .. , an ongoing research effort established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within education around the globe.
Scott Kinkoph

BYOD: Increase Chances for Success! - 44 views

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Roland Gesthuizen

NMC Horizon Project | The New Media Consortium - 55 views

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    "The NMC Horizon Project, as the centerpiece of the NMC Emerging Technologies Initiative, charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning, research, creative inquiry, and information management. Launched in 2002, it epitomizes the mission of the NMC to help educators and thought leaders across the world build upon the innovation happening at their institutions by providing them with expert research and analysis."
Randolph Hollingsworth

Sloan-C Webinar Recordings | The Sloan Consortium - 26 views

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    includes intro to teaching online, Social Tech for Faculty Comm and Collab, and other free recordings - the rest cost $99 for non-members: parents and online learning; Google Tools;
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