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Adam Babcock

Google News Timeline by GoogleLabs - 13 views

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    Visual timeline of current events.
Adam Babcock

RESTREPO - A Film by Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington - 7 views

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    Great connection to The Things They Carried.
Adam Babcock

The Associated Press: Sex, drugs more common in hyper-texting teens - 5 views

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  • aren't suggesting that "hyper-texting" leads to sex, drinking or drugs, but say it's startling to see an apparent link between excessive messaging and that kind of risky behavior
  • It found that about one in five students were hyper-texters and about one in nine are hyper-networkers — those who spend three or more hours a day on Facebook and other social networking websites.About one in 25 fall into both categories.
  • Hyper-texting and hyper-networking were more common among girls, minorities, kids whose parents have less education and students from a single-mother household, the study found.
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  • a legitimate question to explore
  • tudy found those who text at least 120 times a day are nearly three-and-a-half times more likely to have had sex than their peers who don't text that much
  • Talking on the phone just isn't appealing to some teens, said her classmate, Ivanna Storms-Thompson."Your arm gets tired, your ear gets sweaty," said Ivanna, who also doesn't like the awkward silences.
Leslie Healey

Four Indispensable Methods for Organizing Group Attention | HASTAC - 16 views

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    great ways to start class right--even when the bell does not ring
Adam Babcock

The Texting Revolution Is Here - WSJ.com - 2 views

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  • We default to text to relay difficult information. We stare at our phone when we want to avoid eye contact.
  • has named "micro-coordination"—"I'll txt u in 10mins when I know wh/ restrnt."
  • it steals from quiet reflection. "When people have a mobile device and have even the smallest increment of extra time, they will communicate with someone in their life,"
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  • If I were to call someone, it would have to be urgent," she says. "Otherwise, it's sort of rude and invasive.
  • "American Idol put texting on the map," says AT&T's Mr. Collins.
Adam Babcock

College Applications Continue to Increase. When Is Enough Enough? - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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  • “They want you so they can reject you,” says Mr. Stewart, a senior in Burnsville, Minn., who has a 3.5 grade-point average and scored a 27 (out of 36) on the ACT. Those numbers are well below the freshman averages at some of the big-name colleges that sent him applications along with brochures.
Leslie Healey

Lesson Plan: Analyzing and Designing Book Apps for Works of Literature - NYTimes.com - 16 views

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    how reading changes on an iPAD or tablet. How could we being using this? when will my school get ereaders? Even I resist carrying my 4 pound book home.
Donalyn Miller

Langwitches Blog » Creative Commons: What Every Educator Needs to Know - 9 views

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    Creative Commons: What Every Educator Needs to Know
Marielle Palombo

TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC - 9 views

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    Lesson plans, articles, and other resources to support the teaching of English from the British Council and the BBC
Teresa Ilgunas

Joliprint | Print friendly & PDF your blogs and websites - 8 views

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    Got this from Larry Ferlazzo's links...I'll be using this when I need to print out current events for the students
Adam Babcock

GLADINET - Cloud Storage Access Platform & Solutions - 0 views

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    Create a Gladinet Drive to seamlessly access multiple cloud storage services using the familiar Windows® Explorer interface. Drag and drop folders or an entire drive to quickly transfer thousands of files. Access and manipulate cloud files with local applications. 
Leslie Healey

The false connotations inside "digital natives". » Alan Lawrence Sitomer - 12 views

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  • Leslie Healey on 19 Oct 10
     
    my students arrive in my class as juniors with only spotty digital fluency. I have a rep for being "hard" because we try new things...is this what I can expect from "digital natives" ????
Dennis OConnor

10 Free Online Courses for Writing Teachers - The Writing Teacher - Tips, Tec... - 8 views

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  • Taking writing courses can help writing teachers become better writers, mentors, and readers. There are several free university level writing courses that can be taken online. Credit is not available for any of the courses and degrees are not awarded, but the opportunity to build new skills is undeniable. Here are 10 self-paced writing courses to explore in your spare time.
  • Taking writing courses can help writing teachers become better writers, mentors, and readers. There are several free university level writing courses that can be taken online. Credit is not available for any of the courses and degrees are not awarded, but the opportunity to build new skills is undeniable. Here are 10 self-paced writing courses to explore in your spare time.
  • Dennis OConnor on 18 Oct 10
     
    "Taking writing courses can help writing teachers become better writers, mentors, and readers. There are several free university level writing courses that can be taken online. Credit is not available for any of the courses and degrees are not awarded, but the opportunity to build new skills is undeniable. Here are 10 self-paced writing courses to explore in your spare time."
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