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Jibe and Unity3d | Google Groups - 7 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 14 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 14 Jul 11
     
    Google group for those using Jibe and Unity 3d. Not just reactiongrid.
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ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 14 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 02 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 02 Jul 11
     
    Hook your ipad up to your projector and it becomes a personal whiteboard. IWB's are they as useful?
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Experts differ on Klout's clout - 12 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 29 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Oct 11
     
    If you want to understand Klout, this article is a pretty balanced one.
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(1) Lill O Sperling - 3 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 01 Nov 11
     
    You can communicate to your students on Facebook. Here is Lill O Sperling's Facebook fanpage. She is using it to communicate with her students. (You can follow this hip teacher at @LilOSperling
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Niall Ferguson: How American Civilization Can Avoid Collapse - The Daily Beast - 4 views

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  • “killer applications
  • Competition
  • The Scientific Revolution
  • ...29 more annotations...
  • Modern Medicine
  • The Consumer Society
  • The Work Ethic
  • The Rule of Law and Representative Government.
  • these killer apps were essentially monopolized by Europeans and their cousins who settled in North America and Australasia
  • the great divergence
  • They also grew more powerful
  • 20th century, just a dozen Western empires—-including the United States—controlled 58 percent of the world’s land surface and population, and a staggering 74 percent of the global economy.
  • tendency of Western societies to delete their own killer apps.
  • But there is a second, more insidious cause of the “great reconvergence,” which I do deplore—and that is the
  • Ask yourself: who’s got the work ethic now? The average South Korean works about 39 percent more hours per week than the average American. The school year in South Korea is 220 days long, compared with 180 days here. And you don’t have to spend too long at any major U.S. university to know which students really drive themselves: the Asians and Asian-Americans
  • Yet life expectancy in the U.S. has risen from 70 to 78 in the past 50 years, compared with leaps from 68 to 83 in Japan and from 43 to 73 in China.
  • On no fewer than 15 of 16 different issues relating to property rights and governance, the United States fares worse than Hong Kong. Indeed, the U.S. makes the global top 20 in only one area: investor protection
  • The future belongs not to them but to today’s teenagers
  • The latest data on “mathematical literacy” reveal that the gap between the world leaders—the students of Shanghai and Singapore—and their American counterparts is now as big as the gap between U.S. kids and teenagers in Albania and Tunisia.
  • Yet statistics from the World Intellectual Property Organization show that already more patents originate in Japan than in the U.S., that South Korea overtook Germany to take third place in 2005, and that China is poised to overtake Germany too
  • the United States’ average competitiveness score has fallen from 5.82 to 5.43, one of the steepest declines among developed economies. China’s score, meanwhile, has leapt up from 4.29 to 4.90.
  • Perhaps more disturbing is the decline of meaningful competition at home, as the social mobility of the postwar era has given way to an extraordinary social polarization. You don’t have to be an Occupy Wall Street leftist to believe that the American super-rich elite—the 1 percent that collects 20 percent of the income—has become dangerously divorced from the rest of society, especially from the underclass at the bottom of the income distribution.
  • Far more than in Europe, most Americans remain instinctively loyal to the killer applications of Western ascendancy, from competition all the way through to the work ethic. They know the country has the right software. They just can’t understand why it’s running so damn slowly.
  • What we need to do is to delete the viruses that have crept into our system: the anticompetitive quasi monopolies that blight everything from banking to public education; the politically correct pseudosciences and soft subjects that deflect good students away from hard science; the lobbyists who subvert the rule of law for the sake of the special interests they represent—to say nothing of our crazily dysfunctional system of health care, our overleveraged personal finances, and our newfound unemployment ethic
  • And finally we need to reboot our whole system.
  • If what we are risking is not decline but downright collapse, then the time frame may be even tighter than one election cycle
  • Western Civilization's Killer Apps
  • COMPETITION
  • THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
  • THE RULE OF LAW
  • MODERN MEDICINE
  • THE CONSUMER SOCIETY
  • THE WORK ETHIC
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Homework: An unnecessary evil? … Surprising findings from new research - The ... - 18 views

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shared by Brendan Murphy on 03 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • six hours a day of academics are enough, and kids should have the chance after school to explore other interests and develop in other ways — or be able simply to relax in the same way that most adults like to relax after work;
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 03 Oct 14
       
      My only problem with this is that too many adults see relaxing after school as watching TV and drinking beer.
  • translated as “A relentless regimen of after-school drill-and-skill can raise scores a wee bit on tests of rote learning.”)
  • Even if homework were a complete waste of time, how could it not be positively related to course grades?
  • Walter Antoniotti on 02 Nov 14
     
    FDR's private school president listed these four missions for his students ranked by importance. 1) Religion 2) Character 3) Athletics 4) Academics His president at Harvard felt and required a few basic courses and then students should take what they want. The social science and math teachers created well rounded to keep their jobs, I could care if my layer or doctor is well rounded, me, I want success!
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Remember the Sand Creek Massacre - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Felix Gryffeth on 28 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • John Chivington
  • Patrick Edward Connor’s massacre of Shoshone villagers along the Idaho-Utah border at Bear River on Jan. 29, 1863
  • Cheyenne and Arapaho villagers at Sand Creek in Colorado
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  • incarceration of thousands of Navajo people in 1864 known as the Long Walk.
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kis21learning wiki / A "Digital Arts" Menu for Multiple Intelligences - 1 views

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  • Dave Truss on 15 May 08
     
    1. Which is your strongest "multiple intelligence" (Gardner)? Take this questionnaire to find out! 2. Choose from the Multiple Intelligence(s) Menu(s) below to see which "Digital Arts" might be most enjoyable for you to explore in iLife and Web 2.0
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Mini Wave Model - 3 views

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  • Ted Sakshaug on 31 Jan 16
     
    making a wave model
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Teachers to be judged by pupils times tables tests - UKEdChat.com - 5 views

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shared by C CC on 03 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • C CC on 03 Jan 16
     
    Every pupil in England will be expected to have memorised their times tables before leaving primary school, under new government plans, reports the BBC. These will also see new tests of multiplication skills at the age of 11. The checks will be pi…
  • Walter Antoniotti on 10 Jan 16
     
    1) Peter Drucker believed "Students Should Have Studied What They Do Well" "Delivering literacy--even on the high level appropriate to a knowledge society--will be an easier task than giving students the capacity and the knowledge to keep on learning, and the desire to do it."... "All it requires is to make learners achieve. All it requires is to focus on the strengths and talents of learners so that they excel in whatever it is they do well." But schools do not do it. They focus instead on a learner's weaknesses." The New Realities pages 236 and 237. Peter thinks that student who do poorly with math should not be let anywhere near algebra. This should make students happier but remember algebra teachers need jobs.
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ipl2 Information You Can Trust Internet Public Library.url - 0 views

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  • Carine L on 25 Aug 08
     
    The Internet Public Library (IPL) features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts, newspapers, and magazines; and the Ask A Question online reference service.
  • darkbird18 Wharry on 24 Nov 15
     
    ipl2 is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII). Very good online internet libaray and online database research tool.
  • darkbird18 Wharry on 24 Nov 15
     
    ipl2 is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII). Very good online internet libaray and online database research tool.
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UKEd Magazine - Issue 51 - 1 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 28 Sep 18
     
    Special World War One Commemorative Edition
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How to use Twitter Bookmarks... in 19 seconds - 3 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Mar 18
     
    A super quick YouTube video showing you how to use Twitter's new bookmarks.
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MSU Clear Conversations 2.1 - 3 views

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  • Ben Rimes on 01 Oct 16
     
    Online audio/video tool for Language teachers to create a series of audio and video prompts for students. Learner responses are saved for teacher review, and conversations can be joined by multiple students.
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