For many people — particularly anyone over the age of 30 — the idea of describing your blow-by-blow activities in such detail is absurd. Why would you subject your friends to your daily minutiae? And conversely, how much of their trivia can you absorb? The growth of ambient intimacy can seem like modern narcissism taken to a new, supermetabolic extreme — the ultimate expression of a generation of celebrity-addled youths who believe their every utterance is fascinating and ought to be shared with the world.
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Subject Matters: Why students fall behind on history - CNN.com - 66 views
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Great article that paints our current educational direction toward trivia vs. deep understanding
Search Education - Google - 42 views
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Providing lessons for educating students on search techniques. - ...1 more comment...
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Google has some fantastic lessons, activities, and resources to help students become efficient and proficient researchers. -
"Help your students become better searchers " Lesson Plans & Activities: Download lesson plans to develop your students' search literacy skills. Browse lesson plans Power Searching: Improve your search skills and learn advanced tips with online lessons and activities. A Google a Day Challenges: Put your students' search skills to the test with these trivia challenges. Browse challenges Live Trainings:Join us for live search trainings or watch past trainings from search experts here at Google.
Coloniat Life in Early America - 78 views
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Learn What Daily Life was Like in Colonial Times, Colonial Life Trivia, How the Colonists Lived, What Foods the Colonists Ate, Facts about Colonial Occupations and Colonial Education on KidInfo.com's Colonial Life Resource Page.
Welcome to About World Languages - 99 views
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A really interesting site that explores how world languages have developed, what they are related to and fascinating facts and trivia. A great background resource for any MFL student. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages%2C+Culture+%26+International+Projects
New Moon - 34 views
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Guide from Shmoop Summary, themes, quotes, questions, characters, literary devices, trivia, weblinks
blubbr - Play & create video trivia games - 68 views
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Interesting games and potential uses
Trivia Questions, Word Puzzles and Games, Games, Games - 70 views
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Play build-a-word!
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This is the one!
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Mind Games!
Guinness World Records - 63 views
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Use fascinating and just plain weird World records to introduction topics in your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular
Ripley's Believe It or Not! | Unbelievable News. Odd & Bizarre Things from Around the W... - 35 views
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Ripley's Believe It or Not site that has several realted links to stories printed in the Daily Cartoon section.
The Credibles - What to trust on the internet - 1 views
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Webquest about the internet.
I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Do you think this is a fair critique? Is this a generational issue? Why or why not?
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“ambient awareness.”
Sporcle.com: mentally stimulating diversions - 0 views
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An online quiz site with a multitude of topics.
What's Special About This Number? - 114 views
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A mathematical fact about each number from 0 through 9999!
Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia - 6 views
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This a great site for your class to track the books they are reading and share reviews with one another.
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Share your thoughts and opinions on books you and your students are reading.
Online Quizzes, Tests, Trivia, Worksheets, and Free Games - Quizzes.cc - 66 views
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This is a wonderfully simple maths quiz site with a good collection of activities for the 4 operations. Choose your category and get 10 randomly generated questions to answer. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
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