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in title, tags, annotations or urlIs Video Game School Training a Generation of Professional Princess Rescuers? | Design & Innovation | Fast Company - 17 views
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Is this really necessary? And how promising is it?
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A very well-intentioned, but ignorant piece on the role of video games in the classroom. Non-educators should stay out of the education arena and write what they know about!! "On the other hand, does it really take a videogame to make learning fun? Surely, there are better ways, which are less likely to be dated the second they're finished."
Stanford Releases New iPhone App Development Course | Open Culture - 8 views
Our Known Universe in Six Minutes | Open Culture - 73 views
Apple - iPad - Technical specifications and accessories for iPad. - 11 views
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Dictionary support for English (US), English (UK), French, French (Canadian), French (Swiss), German, Japanese, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, Italian, Simplified Chinese (Handwriting, Pinyin), Russian
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Accessibility Support for playback of closed-captioned content VoiceOver screen reader Full-screen zoom magnification White on black Mono audio
Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education - 17 views
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So it's worth taking a careful look at whether the company will once again create a new category of device that make waves in education -- as it did with personal computers, digital music players, and smartphones -- or whether the iPad and other tabletss might be doomed to remain a niche offering.
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Mr. Jobs did mention iTunesU twice when listing the kinds of content that could be viewed on the iPad, referring to the company's partnership with many colleges to offer them free space for multimedia content like lecture recordings. But he otherwise focused on consumer uses -- watching movies, viewing photos, sending e-mail messages, and reading novels published by five trade publishers mentioned at the event. That does not mean that the company won't later promote the iPad's use on campuses, though, since it waited until after iPods and iPhones were established before beginning to work more heavily with colleges to promote those in education.
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the biggest impact of the iPad would be in the textbook market.
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The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - EduVision - 48 views
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I distinctly remember a professor at Trinity College saying, as we studied Faulkner, "determining authors' intent is impossible. In fact, even if you asked them personally, they might lie! Critical thinking means shaping personal meaning using the text. So, that means one might explore the construction of the text as a result of that particular reader at that particular time in history. So much to say about this...
iPad vs Kindle vs Netbooks vs Books: What's Best for Students? | AceOnlineSchools.com - Online Education - 51 views
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Textbooks
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3G wireless for $130 plus $15 or $30 per month
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imagine not being able to listen to music or read an e-book while surfing the web
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By all accounts, the iPad will be running current iPhone OS 3.1 which does allow you to listen to music while doing other things...the rub will be creating a presentation in Keynote for iPad without direct access to the web for photos...or having to shut down Safari to check your Twitter client, etc.
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I think a big miss on this article is any discussion of content creation capabilities of netbooks and iPad. Kindle and Dead Tree books don't allow extensive content creation, the iPad has limited capabilities, but netbooks open up a whole range of creative possibility. Also, it's obvious this article is geared toward college students, not middle or high school.
Students Retain Information in Print-Like Formats Better - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 28 views
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It is harder to keep track of where information is located within an online document versus the more-apparent page markers in a print-style text
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But the scrolling interface of online documents had little impact on the students in the study with high working-memory capacity, or a good ability to process and retrieve information.
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More study is needed on the impact that scrolling has on learning, he said, especially given the prevalence of online tools in the classroom and in distance learning.
More Tools for Digital Storytellers | Ozge Karaoglu's Blog - 61 views
Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 28 views
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In his deliberately provocative — and deeply nihilistic — new book, “Reality Hunger,” the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction “has never seemed less central to the culture’s sense of itself.”
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Mr. Shields’s book consists of 618 fragments, including hundreds of quotations taken from other writers like Philip Roth, Joan Didion and Saul Bellow — quotations that Mr. Shields, 53, has taken out of context and in some cases, he says, “also revised, at least a little — for the sake of compression, consistency or whim.”
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It’s also a question, as Mr. Lanier, 49, astutely points out in his new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” of how online collectivism, social networking and popular software designs are changing the way people think and process information, a question of what becomes of originality and imagination in a world that prizes “metaness” and regards the mash-up as “more important than the sources who were mashed.”
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calibre - E-book management - 54 views
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Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories: Library Management, E-book conversion, Syncing to e-book reader devices, Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form, Comprehensive e-book viewer, Content server for online access to your book collection
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calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.
CBC News - Health - Brain simulates actions in stories as a person reads: study - 34 views
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Brain simulates actions in stories as a person reads: study
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What scientists discovered was that parts of the brain associated with certain activities described in the story would light up as the person read those sections.
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This study suggests that readers do mental simulation when they comprehend a story,"
Reading Strategy Songs - 131 views
Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 49 views
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It’s also a question, as Mr. Lanier, 49, astutely points out in his new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” of how online collectivism, social networking and popular software designs are changing the way people think and process information, a question of what becomes of originality and imagination in a world that prizes “metaness” and regards the mash-up as “more important than the sources who were mashed.”
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Core discussion topic? From this, I see a few discussion issues: 1. Do we prize "mash-ups" more than original work? Who is "we" in this? 2. If the answer to #1 is "yes," then the next question is: is this good or bad? 3. Finally, if the answer is "bad" to #2, what place do "mash-ups" have, and how do we help our students see the value in original work?
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Web 2.0 is creating a “digital forest of mediocrity” and substituting ill-informed speculation for genuine expertise;
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Mr. Johnson added that the book’s migration to the digital realm will turn the solitary act of reading — “a direct exchange between author and reader” — into something far more social and suggested that as online chatter about books grows, “the unity of the book will disperse into a multitude of pages and paragraphs vying for Google’s attention.”
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U. of Notre Dame Reports on Experiment to Replace Textbooks With iPads - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 35 views
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replace traditional textbooks with iPads as part of a yearlong study by the university’s e-publishing working group into the use of e-readers
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students were more connected in and out of the classroom
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said that the iPad made it easier to collaborate and manage group projects
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CK12.ORG - FlexBooks - 134 views
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Customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12 - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
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Customizable online textbooks for a variety of subjects. History is full of terrific primary sources.
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open access textbooks resources for iPad included here
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