Rage Against the Common Core - NYTimes.com - 22 views
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Race to the Top program to encourage states
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misconception that standards and testing are identical has become widespread
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Many teachers like the standards, because they invite creativity in the classroom — instead of memorization, the Common Core emphasizes critical thinking and problem-solving.
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Small Business Social Cheat Sheet | Marketing Technology - 29 views
Put Chromebooks in proper context: This is not a joke - TechRepublic - 83 views
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The issue, instead, is whether a user's needs can be met with web applications and services.
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Google and Chromebook manufacturers are betting that the web will be enough for many users. That's not a joke. That's a market. And I think many people believe that's where the world is heading.
Everything you need to know about the internet | Technology | The Observer - 32 views
Enhancing Critical-Thinking Skills in Children: Tips for Parents - Duke Gifted Letter - 55 views
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Are in-depth group discussions provided during class time? Are students coached to question their thinking processes and those of their classmates? Are students afforded opportunities to evaluate their progress regularly? Are students encouraged to pose questions regularly in class? Are students provided with guides to help them reflect on their thinking (such as Bloom’s Taxonomy)? Do class projects engage students in analysis, synthesis, and evaluation? Are students given opportunities to consider various opinions and to justify their own beliefs?
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Table 1 Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy Competence Description Question/Prompt Knowledge Dates, events, formulas, other facts When did the United States become an independent country from England? What is the formula for area? Comprehension Recognize meaning, sequence, events, interpret information, compare ideas, make inferences, predict ideas What is the author's purpose? How are these numbers related? Is water of sunshine more critical to plant life? Human life? Application Use of information and concepts to solve problems Using your knowledge of calories and your physical makeup, calculate how much energy you must exert to lose three pounds per month. Demonstrate your understanding of how to create a Web site. Analysis Recognize patterns, parts, components Considering the stock market, examine which investments were the most lucrative this quarter. Organize these games by level of difficulty. Synthesis Use of information to create a new system, generalize, draw conclusions When did the United States become an independent country from England? What is the formula for area? Evaluation Assess concepts, weigh opinions for subjectivity, select items, judge Which type of dog would be best suited for your family, given your lifestyle and housing? Which local newspaper is written the most objectively?
List of Enterprise Microblogging Tools: Twitter for the Intranet « Web Strate... - 8 views
Intel: Light beams can replace electronic signals for future computers - SmartPlanet - 12 views
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Here’s how it works, step by step: The transmitter chip is made of four hybrid silicon lasers. Light beams from the lasers each travel into an optical modulator. The modulator encodes data onto the beams at 12.5Gbps. The four beams are then combined and output to a single optical fiber, for a total data rate of 50Gbps. At the other end of the link, the receiver chip separates the four optical beams and directs them into photo detectors. The photo detectors convert data back into electrical signals.
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a video explanation:
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“silicon photonics,”
A short introduction concerning the implementation of the Horizon system at t... - 4 views
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Horizon is a third generation system
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marketed by Ameritech Library Services, a subsidiary of the Ameritech Corporation, one of the world's largest communication companies
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new system Horizon was built on the Marquis, Dynix library system, and is being developed by Ameritech Library Service in collaboration with the University of Chicago and Indiana University. It was first introduced in the USA in 1991
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Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers - Cat's Pyjamas - 115 views
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A few weeks ago, a Social Media Cheat Sheet was doing the round. A nice visualization of the pro’s & cons of each social media channel, but with a business/marketing focus. I thought I should do one for social media use in education. However for most of the teachers I work with, our Moodle (EIT Online) is still their primary online teaching environment. So instead I set out to create this poster size guide for teachers, allowing them to compare the functionality and pedagogical advantages of some standard Moodle tools, adding a column to indicate how tricky the tool is to set up.
Electricity FERC - 10 views
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Regulatory Changes by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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FERC Orders 888 and 889
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On April 24, 1996, FERC issued Orders 888 and 889, which encourage wholesale competition. The primary objective of these orders is the elimination of monopoly power over the transmission of electricity. To achieve this objective, FERC requires all public utilities that own, control, or operate facilities used for transmitting electric energy in interstate commerce to: file open access nondiscriminatory transmission tariffs containing minimum terms and conditions, take transmission service (including ancillary services) for their own new wholesale sales and purchases of electricity under open access tariffs, develop and maintain a same-time information system that will give existing and potential users the same access to transmission information that the public utility enjoys, and separate the transmission from generating and marketing functions and communications.
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The Stock Market Game™ - Home - 108 views
Op-Ed Columnist - 'No Picnic for Me Either' - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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“We’ve seen a race to the bottom. States are lying to children. They are lying to parents. They’re ignoring failure, and that’s unacceptable. We have to be fierce.”
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real results.
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liberal orthodoxy
Mari Smith - Relationship Marketing Specialist » Blog Archive » Open Netwo... - 1 views
Macworld Forums [Powered by Invision Power Board] - 0 views
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For Australians wanting to try the Flip, I might point out Price USA -- www.priceusa.com.au. This is a mob in Mildura that work with an agent in the US and will order anything you can get in the US but can't get here. Go to their site, enter the URLs and details of the products you want, and they'll send you a quotation to confirm. Have used them in the past and prices (shipping and exchange rate) were quite reasonable; I can't make any guarantees, but it should be easy to land a Flip in Australia for well under $200.I think the reason Australian companies aren't importing this device is that it would cannibalise much of the low end of the video camera market. The most comparable device here -- a waterproof model from (can't remember off hand) is priced at $699.
Academic Productivity » Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, a delicious... - 0 views
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In my experience, what makes diigo better? it saves the content of the page you bookmark, not only the link. Magnolia used to do that before they lost all their user’s data You can highlight! Important, as sometimes you don’t remember what was interesting in a page Posts are Private by default There’s a bunch of community features behind it. Example: pop psych you can post to other sites, including delicious (they are an example of openness)
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On top of all this, there’s another feature that may well become revolutionary: adding sticky notes to pages, in a way that other people can see it. When using the Diigo toolbar, you can see what other people have highlighted, and also comments (sticky notes) they added. That means that you are no longer limited to leaving comments on blogs, you can do so in any type of page (even static pages). Diigo enables you to drop your comment exactly where it is relevant, not at the end of a long list.
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All in all, I’ve never seen an entrance in a monopolized market (social bookmarking) with this strength and resolution. Diigo is very impressive, and my bookmarking tool of choice.
The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia - 0 views
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Sales of new homes posted their largest monthly gain in nearly eight years in June, a sign the market is bottoming as buyers respond to lower prices.
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