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Lisa C. Hurst

Inside the School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Education | WIRED - 9 views

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shared by Lisa C. Hurst on 05 May 15 - No Cached
  • Lisa C. Hurst on 05 May 15
     
    "AUTHOR: ISSIE LAPOWSKY. ISSIE LAPOWSKY DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.04.15. 05.04.15 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM. 7:00 AM INSIDE THE SCHOOL SILICON VALLEY THINKS WILL SAVE EDUCATION Click to Open Overlay Gallery Students in the youngest class at the Fort Mason AltSchool help their teacher, Jennifer Aguilar, compile a list of what they know and what they want to know about butterflies. CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK/WIRED SO YOU'RE A parent, thinking about sending your 7-year-old to this rogue startup of a school you heard about from your friend's neighbor's sister. It's prospective parent information day, and you make the trek to San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. You walk up to the second floor of the school, file into a glass-walled conference room overlooking a classroom, and take a seat alongside dozens of other parents who, like you, feel that public schools-with their endless bubble-filled tests, 38-kid classrooms, and antiquated approach to learning-just aren't cutting it. At the same time, you're thinking: this school is kind of weird. On one side of the glass is a cheery little scene, with two teachers leading two different middle school lessons on opposite ends of the room. But on the other side is something altogether unusual: an airy and open office with vaulted ceilings, sunlight streaming onto low-slung couches, and rows of hoodie-wearing employees typing away on their computers while munching on free snacks from the kitchen. And while you can't quite be sure, you think that might be a robot on wheels roaming about. Then there's the guy who's standing at the front of the conference room, the school's founder. Dressed in the San Francisco standard issue t-shirt and jeans, he's unlike any school administrator you've ever met. But the more he talks about how this school uses technology to enhance and individualize education, the more you start to like what he has to say. And so, if you are truly fed up with the school stat
Judy Robison

Easy classroom computing - 46 views

www.ubermix.org/about.html

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shared by Judy Robison on 17 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Judy Robison on 17 Jan 14
     
    "The ubermix is an all-free, specially built, Linux-based operating system designed from the ground up with the needs of education in mind. built by educators with an eye towards student and teacher empowerment, ubermix takes all the complexity out of student devices by making them as reliable and easy-to-use as a cell phone, without sacrificing the power and capabilities of a full operating system. With a turn-key, 5 minute installation, 20 second quick recovery mechanism, and more than 60 free applications pre-installed, ubermix turns whatever hardware you have into a powerful device for learning."
James Spagnoletti

Göbekli Tepe - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine - 67 views

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shared by James Spagnoletti on 17 Sep 11 - No Cached
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  • The Birth of ReligionWe used to think agriculture gave rise to cities and later to writing, art, and religion. Now the world’s oldest temple suggests the urge to worship sparked civilization.
  • Before them are dozens of massive stone pillars arranged into a set of rings, one mashed up against the next. Known as Göbekli Tepe (pronounced Guh-behk-LEE TEH-peh), the site is vaguely reminiscent of Stonehenge, except that Göbekli Tepe was built much earlier and is made not from roughly hewn blocks but from cleanly carved limestone pillars splashed with bas-reliefs of animals—a cavalcade of gazelles, snakes, foxes, scorpions, and ferocious wild boars. The assemblage was built some 11,600 years ago, seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza. It contains the oldest known temple. Indeed, Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known example of monumental architecture—the first structure human beings put together that was bigger and more complicated than a hut. When these pillars were erected, so far as we know, nothing of comparable scale existed in the world.
  • At the time of Göbekli Tepe's construction much of the human race lived in small nomadic bands that survived by foraging for plants and hunting wild animals. Construction of the site would have required more people coming together in one place than had likely occurred before. Amazingly, the temple's builders were able to cut, shape, and transport 16-ton stones hundreds of feet despite having no wheels or beasts of burden. The pilgrims who came to Göbekli Tepe lived in a world without writing, metal, or pottery; to those approaching the temple from below, its pillars must have loomed overhead like rigid giants, the animals on the stones shivering in the firelight—emissaries from a spiritual world that the human mind may have only begun to envision.
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  • Archaeologists are still excavating Göbekli Tepe and debating its meaning. What they do know is that the site is the most significant in a volley of unexpected findings that have overturned earlier ideas about our species' deep past. Just 20 years ago most researchers believed they knew the time, place, and rough sequence of the Neolithic Revolution—the critical transition that resulted in the birth of agriculture, taking Homo sapiens from scattered groups of hunter-gatherers to farming villages and from there to technologically sophisticated societies with great temples and towers and kings and priests who directed the labor of their subjects and recorded their feats in written form. But in recent years multiple new discoveries, Göbekli Tepe preeminent among them, have begun forcing archaeologists to reconsider. At first the Neolithic Revolution was viewed as a single event—a sudden flash of genius—that occurred in a single location, Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now southern Iraq, then spread to India, Europe, and beyond. Most archaeologists believed this sudden blossoming of civilization was driven largely by environmental changes: a gradual warming as the Ice Age ended that allowed some people to begin cultivating plants and herding animals in abundance. The new research suggests that the "revolution" was actually carried out by many hands across a huge area and over thousands of years. And it may have been driven not by the environment but by something else entirely.
  • Most of the world's great religious centers, past and present, have been destinations for pilgrimages
  • Göbekli Tepe may be the first of all of them, the beginning of a pattern. What it suggests, at least to the archaeologists working there, is that the human sense of the sacred—and the human love of a good spectacle—may have given rise to civilization itself.
  • n the 1960s archaeologists from the University of Chicago had surveyed the region and concluded that Göbekli Tepe was of little interest. Disturbance was evident at the top of the hill, but they attributed it to the activities of a Byzantine-era military outpo
  • To Schmidt, the T-shaped pillars are stylized human beings, an idea bolstered by the carved arms that angle from the "shoulders" of some pillars, hands reaching toward their loincloth-draped bellies. The stones face the center of the circle—as at "a meeting or dance," Schmidt says—a representation, perhaps, of a religious ritual. As for the prancing, leaping animals on the figures, he noted that they are mostly deadly creatures: stinging scorpions, charging boars, ferocious lions. The figures represented by the pillars may be guarded by them, or appeasing them, or incorporating them as totems.
  • nches below the surface the team struck an elaborately fashioned stone. Then another, and another—a ring of standing pillars.
  • Geomagnetic surveys in 2003 revealed at least 20 rings piled together, higgledy-piggledy, under the earth.
  • he pillars were big—the tallest are 18 feet in height and weigh 16 tons. Swarming over their surfaces was a menagerie of animal bas-reliefs, each in a different style, some roughly rendered, a few as refined and symbolic as Byzantine art.
  • The circles follow a common design. All are made from limestone pillars shaped like giant spikes or capital T's.
  • They hadn't yet mastered engineering." Knoll speculated that the pillars may have been propped up, perhaps by wooden posts.
  • Within minutes of getting there," Schmidt says, he realized that he was looking at a place where scores or even hundreds of people had worked in millennia past.
  • Puzzle piled upon puzzle as the excavation continued. For reasons yet unknown, the rings at Göbekli Tepe seem to have regularly lost their power, or at least their charm. Every few decades people buried the pillars and put up new stones—a second, smaller ring, inside the first.
  • he site may have been built, filled in, and built again for centuries.
  • Bewilderingly, the people at Göbekli Tepe got steadily worse at temple building.
  • Finally the effort seems to have petered out altogether by 8200 B.C. Göbekli Tepe was all fall and no rise.
Rachel Hinton

Music Memos (iOS) Release Date, Price and Specs - 14 views

www.cnet.com/...music-memos-ios

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  • Rachel Hinton on 20 Jan 16
     
    "When a bolt of musical inspiration hits, many musicians will reach for their smart phones, pop open the built-in voice-recorder app, and make a quick recording of some combination of guitar, voice or piano, hoping to capture the essence of the idea before it fades. But a voice memo is a blunt tool for capturing a song idea, and the artist is left on their own to figure out how to translate a rough recording into something more substantial -- or even to remember what chords were played."
  • Rachel Hinton on 20 Jan 16
     
    "When a bolt of musical inspiration hits, many musicians will reach for their smart phones, pop open the built-in voice-recorder app, and make a quick recording of some combination of guitar, voice or piano, hoping to capture the essence of the idea before it fades. But a voice memo is a blunt tool for capturing a song idea, and the artist is left on their own to figure out how to translate a rough recording into something more substantial -- or even to remember what chords were played."
Andrew Williamson

Why An Unconference? - Meeting Of The Minds Unconference Blog - 8 views

motmedu.posterous.com/why-an-unconference

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shared by Andrew Williamson on 07 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Andrew Williamson on 07 Oct 12
     
    Looking for a conference with a difference? What story do you have to tell? The #motm13 Unconference is built around stories for the purpose of making strong connections with other passionate educators who are integrating ICT with pedagogy.
Lauren Rosen

Flow Chart Maker & Online Diagram Software | Lucidchart - 10 views

www.lucidchart.com

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shared by Lauren Rosen on 25 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Lauren Rosen on 27 Feb 13
     
    Great tool for all sorts of charts and diagrams built collaboratively. Free for K-12 educators. Integrates with google drive.
Marc Patton

Create and Publish Amazing Multi-touch Books for iPad using iBooks Author - mLearnCon 2012 Presentation | Kinetic Media | Software Tutorials and Software Reviews - 74 views

kinetic-media.com/or-mlearncon-2012-presentation

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shared by Marc Patton on 21 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Marc Patton on 21 Nov 12
     
    Participants in this session will learn the basics of iBooks Author - from Apple's pre-built templates, to creating chapters, pages, and glossaries. You will learn to turn textbooks into interactive training materials through Apple's interactive widgets like Photo Galleries, Videos, Review Interactions, Keynote Presentations, Interactive Images, 3-D material, and even custom HTML5 interactions and animations.
Marc Patton

BigBluebutton - 2 views

www.bigbluebutton.org

Online_Learning_Environments Teaching_Tools

shared by Marc Patton on 27 Nov 12 - Cached
  • Marc Patton on 27 Nov 12
     
    BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system built on over fourteen open source components to create an integrated solution that runs on Mac, Unix, and PC computers.
Brian Davies

You Built What?!: A Remote-Controlled Robo-Arm | Popular Science - 2 views

www.popsci.com/...hat-remote-controlled-robo-arm

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shared by Brian Davies on 06 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Brian Davies on 06 Dec 12
     
    A great example of a young innovator and the benefits of play and prototype.  Should have been a Tony Wagner case study.
  • Michelle Kassorla on 06 Dec 12
     
    Wow! This is amazing!!
Marc Patton

CODE77 Rubrics - Beginning 2009 version - 3 views

www.doug-johnson.com/...cs-beginning-2009-version.html

Planning Teacher_Resources

shared by Marc Patton on 31 Dec 12 - Cached
  • Marc Patton on 31 Dec 12
     
    These rubrics primarily address professional productivity. They are the foundation on which more complex technology and technology-related professional skills are built.
Brandie Hayes

World's Largest Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Plant Planned for China | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building - 31 views

inhabitat.com/ersion-plant-planned-for-china

shared by Brandie Hayes on 27 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Brandie Hayes on 27 Apr 13
     
    2:50 video and article about a new Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Plant to be built in China by Lockheed Martin. It will be the worlds largest.
Michele Brown

Teach Your Monster to Read - 150 views

www.teachyourmonstertoread.com

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shared by Michele Brown on 04 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Oct 12
     
    This is an amazing, beautifully made and entertaining site for young children to learn phonic sounds. Design a monster and take it on an adventure around a magic area to find the letter sounds and fix a spaceship. The storyline is good and the activities are educational and motivational. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
  • Michele Brown on 23 Oct 12
     
    Combining top quality games design with essential learning, the game is built on the principles of synthetic phonics and follows the teaching sequence of the Letters and Sounds.  Teachers can setup account and give access to students.
Jane Trotter

Caine's Arcade - YouTube - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

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shared by Jane Trotter on 11 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Jane Trotter on 11 Apr 12
     
    A 9 year old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade in his dad's used auto parts store is about to have the best day of his life. Help Caine's Scholarship Fund: http://CainesArcade.com
Siri Anderson

kernelsoftruth [licensed for non-commercial use only] / FrontPage - 1 views

kernelsoftruth.pbworks.com/...FrontPage

SocialStudies environmental-issues history geography economics civics food literacy games

shared by Siri Anderson on 28 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Siri Anderson on 28 Apr 12
     
    A web site built by the amazing students in a Social Studies Methods class at Bemidji State University to help teachers facilitate lessons on themes related to The Omnivore's Dilemma. Lesson plans, materials, games, videos. A great tool for a teacher who wants to jigsaw student learning and is looking for accessible content.
  • Siri Anderson on 28 Apr 12
     
    Check this out!
Wayne Holly

Instantly Send Any Gmail Attachment to Google Drive - 90 views

lifehacker.com/...ail-attachment-to-google-drive

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shared by Wayne Holly on 30 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Wayne Holly on 30 Apr 12
     
    Now that Google Drive has built file storage into your Google account, it's only natural that you'd like it to play nicely with your other Google apps. With a few tricks, it can-at least with your Gmail account. 
Roland Gesthuizen

Budget storage for iPads | Information Literacy - 129 views

opsinfolit.global2.vic.edu.au/...budget-storage-for-ipads

iPad edutech education technology budget hack

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 05 May 12 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 05 May 12
     
    "When we first purchased our class set of iPads we needed a secure storage and charging solution. Unfortunately the purpose built trolleys were too expensive. At $4.50 each these drying racks were a great alternative while we saved up the money."
Jim Tiffin Jr

TeacherGeek - Innovative products to inspire young minds - 5 views

www.teachergeek.com

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  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 13 Mar 12
     
    Resource page for materials associated with TeacherGeek products. Models and machines that can be built by students.
Roland Gesthuizen

Check out the TeacherCast review of the app: Teachers Assistant Pro @cleveriosapps - 33 views

www.teachercast.net/...TeachersAssistantPro.html

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Mar 12
     
    Teacher's Assistant Pro is an application built for the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch designed to help teachers keep track of student discipline issues.  This app is customizable and easy to use.  If you are looking for a great way to organize all of your classes and if your administrators ask you to keep track of student behavior, this is the app for you. 
Marc Patton

Drupal - Open Source CMS | drupal.org - 30 views

drupal.org

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  • Marc Patton on 12 Jul 12
     
    Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It's built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
Mark Gleeson

A Must See For School Leaders and School Communities - Will Richardson's TEDx from Melbourne | Connected Principals - 2 views

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shared by Mark Gleeson on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Mark Gleeson on 18 Sep 12
     
    Learning is what our kids need to be doing in the classroom, not getting ready for assessment that were built for another time.(via Justin Reich) We pay so much attention to the measurable part of education that we miss the immeasurable part.creativity, perseverance, problem-solving are what are children need.
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