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Girls' verbal skills make them better at arithmetic, study finds - 0 views

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  • finds that the advantage comes from girls' superior verbal skills.
  • However, some parents and teachers in China say girls do arithmetic better than boys in primary school."
  • Indeed, girls outperformed boys in many math skills
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  • Girls were also better at judging whether two words rhymed, and Zhou and his colleagues think this is the key to their better math performance
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How to find out if your Mac has the Flashback Trojan - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • We've already detailed how to check your Mac to see if you're infected -- but that requires some command line code, and we know that not all users are comfortable doing that. Now we've gone one step further and wrapped those commands into two AppleScripts.
  • Even if you aren't infected, make sure you install the latest Apple security update for Java to fix the vulnerability that allowed this nasty exploit to exist in the first place.
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Mom's Health While Pregnant Linked to Autism Risk - 0 views

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shared by Lauren Paras on 09 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Women who are obese and/or have diabetes or high blood pressure during pregnancy may be about 60% more likely to have babies with autism, a new study suggests.
  • According to the study, 34% of U.S. women of childbearing age are obese and 8.7% have diabetes.
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Why the huge interest in the 1940 Census? - CNN.com - 0 views

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shared by Lauren Paras on 09 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • The National Archives and Records Administration website housing 1940 Census records registered over 60 million hits in just three hours on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, the second day they were open.
  • Economists will be able to analyze how people in specific occupations or smaller geographic areas fared during the Great Depression.
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Lesson plans and resources for your SMART Board - SMART Exchange - 0 views

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    free website for smart boards lessons
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2 critical things to do & remember each day as a teacher - 0 views

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  • Every day educators must remember two things.1) We are not teaching subjects. We are teaching children.2) Children are more than test scores.Every day educators must do two things.1) Be aware of how you are supporting your children in doing work that is worthy of the world. 2) Ensure each child knows that they matter.
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Amazing new Titanic pics in National Geographic - 0 views

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  • The April issue of National Geographic is marking the centennial month of the sinking of the Titanic with exceptional new pictures of the wreck composed from thousands of side-scan, sonar and high definition images taken by the 2010 expedition
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Too Big for Your Britches - 0 views

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  • size is a real enemy to innovation
  • Change is difficult for any organization and education is particularly difficult because of its systematic problems and tensions as a public sector institution
  • the story of Clarence Fisher and Heather Durnin.
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  • Two teachers
  • rural provinces whose classrooms are one
  • constantly exploring new opportunities for their students
  • his students are getting more of an opportunity to learn than many of our students from our biggest districts. 
  • Another disturbing trend with many of our larger districts and schools is an arrogance to admit they might not have all the answers
  • ignore or at least neglect to look to our smaller schools for expertise and innovation
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With autism, no longer invisible - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Just last week, U.S. health authorities announced that autism is more common than previously thought. About 1 in 88 children in the United States have an autism spectrum disorder
  • Diagnoses have risen 78% since 2000
  • Most medications don't help, and while some find improvements with intense (and expensive) behavioral therapy, there is no cure .
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  • People with more severe forms of autism may not be able to live independently or hold complex, social jobs
  • Adults with high-functioning autism typically have difficulties perceiving the nuances of speech and behavior
  • other day-to-day challenges
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The Innovative Educator: Google Voice Provides Every Teacher with a Personal Secretary - 0 views

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  • Deb Gardner on 30 Mar 12
     
    Gets around the issue of providing personal cell phone numbers to students and/or parents. Many more uses for teachers.
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Revisiting Cell Phone Bans in Schools -- THE Journal - 0 views

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shared by Deb Gardner on 30 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Twenty-four percent of K-12 schools ban cell phones altogether, and 62 percent allow phones on school grounds but ban them in the classroom, according to the most recent national data available. But it's about time for those schools to rethink those bans,
  • We have to decide if we are going to continue to ban cell phones, and we have to weigh the balance between pros and cons.
  • He described one example of a teacher using Poll Everywhere in a social studies classroom. As students enter the classroom, the teacher has posted a question on the whiteboard asking students what they believe to be the most important cause of the Civil War.
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  • research has demonstrated that using texting to provide students and parents with regular information about classwork leads to higher assignment completion rates.
  • QR codes are also making mobile phones more attractive as educational tools.
  • To create the Web pages for each site of interest, we used the WordPress blogging tool,"
  • The cell phone bans are in place, Bellarmine's Thomas said, because of legitimate concerns about cheating, texting, sexting, and cyberbullying. Thomas argued that the mobile phones themselves are not causing these problems. They are moral and ethical in nature, not technical. "These are new forms of old behaviors. Banning will not be the solution," he said. "We have to educate students about proper way to use the tools."
  • Deb Gardner on 30 Mar 12
     
    Read the comments by readers - lots of insights here.
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Advancements in High-Tech Assistive Technology Devices | Assisted Disability - 0 views

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  • think automatic garage door openers and the bell that dings when an elevator arrives
  • Computers can now be activated by voice, and users with limited vision can listen as their computer communicates with them; touchscreen technology is ideal for users with limited dexterity.
  • o rely on memory or a manual system for taking medication.
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  • e potential for members of the aging and disabled population to live active lives continues to expand.
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Wikis for Everyone - Wikispaces - 0 views

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  • Over 6 million students and teachers have used Wikispaces in their classrooms since 2005
  • plan events and share best practices in a flexible, accessible, easy-to-update online resource.
  • ollaborate on projects that address real-world questions
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  • Teachers post homework, group work, and classroom goals
  • Classroom schedules and lesson plans can be tweaked from any computer or mobile device
  • accessible anytime from anywhere in the world.
  • tudent accounts with or without email addresses
  • Projects for group work
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What Is Web 2.0 Anyway? - 0 views

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shared by Lauren Paras on 13 Mar 12 - Cached
  • ublish them on a blog. Short for "Web logs," blogs are online journals created by an individual or an organization and cover topics ranging from human rights to fashion -- and everything in between. Blogs are a great example of how emerging voices are not onl
  • communities
  • le -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their commu
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  • The philosophy focuses on the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities.
  • The philosophy focuses on the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities.
  • The philosophy focuses on the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities.
  • The philosophy focuses on the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities.
  • The philosophy focuses on the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities.
  • The philosophy focuses on the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities.
  • The philosophy focuses on the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities.
  • The philosophy focuses on the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities.
  • rather
  • The philosophy focuses on the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities.
  • The philosophy focuses on the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities.
  • The philosophy focuses on the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities.
  • The philosophy focuses on the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities.
  • The philosophy focuses on the idea that the people who consume media, access the Internet, and use the Web shouldn't passively absorb what's available -- rather, they should be active contributors, helping customize media and technology for their own purposes, as well as those of their communities.
  • Web developers, designers, bloggers, and even major media outlets have been abuzz with talk of "Web 2.0" this year. Though the term bears the familiar version number so often attached to software products, it doesn't actually refer to any one technology. Rather, Web
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Technology: A Catalyst for Teaching and Learning in the Classroom - 0 views

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  • is incomprehensible that anyone today would argue that banks, hospitals, or any industry should use less technology.
  • becoming an increasingly vital tool in our information society.
  • More Americans are going online to conduct such day-to-day activities as education, business transactions, personal correspondence, research and information-gathering, and job searches.
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  • more critical to economic and educational advancement and community participation.
  • daily activities, people who lack access to these tools are at a growing disadvantage.
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Is Technological Proficiency a Skill, or Something Bigger? | Pedablogy: Musings on the ... - 0 views

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  • If you think this is a stretch, replace the term ‘technological proficiency’ with the term ‘writing’. We now think of writing as not merely a tool for presenting one’s thinking
  • with the term ‘writing’
  • think of writing as not merely a tool for
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  • also
  • a tool for generating that thinking. Writing is not just product, but process as well.
  • but process
  • Writing is not just
  • product
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What Parents Want in School Communication | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • E-mail from the district/school Online parent portal District/school e-newsletters District/school website Telephone/voice messaging system
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4 Great Twitter Applications for Teachers Using Twitter In The Classroom | Emerging Edu... - 0 views

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  • ajmichel_10 on 02 Feb 12
     
    This could possibly help with whoever is doing Twitter in the classroom...
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7 Stories From Educators About Teaching In The Flipped Classroom | Emerging Education T... - 0 views

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  • ajmichel_10 on 02 Feb 12
     
    This may or may not help with whoever is doing "flipping the classroom"
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Free Technology for Teachers: Get the Math - Multimedia Algebra Challenges - 0 views

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  • Get the Math tries to put the challenges in the context of the  "real world" scenarios of fashion design, video game design, and music production.
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