Diigo conversations push kids deeper - Reflections of a Techie - 21 views
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But I have to tell you that despite all the pain in my neck this has been, I'm LOVING Diigo. We are annotating the blogs as we read them and then dissecting what they mean. Now imagine my little kids (6th graders you know) trying to understand that the geochemistry of this sediment can tell scientist about the cycling of sea levels...and this cycling is important to the coastal cities survival throughout the world. We're just at the most basic places, but they are digging through...asking me questions and pulling out info they think is relevant.I have them write summaries and email those summaries from Diigo to me each weekend. OK...not all are great. But most of these kids "get it" and are pretty interested in the science being conducted. I think they are also grooving on the conversation we get from highlighting important things from the blogs and then chatting (via the annotation commenting feature) about why it's important and what are the next things we should look for.
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This is VERY good! Congratulations! I LOVE to read about teachers who are experimenting out of their comfort zone with technologies like Diigo that produce such positive results. This experiment you're doing with your kiddos is something that will change forever how they view online resources. And, it will change how they look at the web. All very positive, and all skills that will last far into their education. Yes, it is, as you say, the BEST.
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10 Futuristic Inventions in Wearable Tech - Life Scoop - 6 views
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A fun discussion topic with technology students, this blog post about futuristic inventions in wearable tech includes buttons that are really mp3 players, a dress with room for a sim card that makes it funciton as a mobile phone when you lift your wrist, and the one I want -- the Massage Me Massage Video game - that makes a game out of having someone massage your back! (Oh yeah!) This would be a great area to review and then have students invent their own.
YouTube - RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms - 4 views
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This is an amazing illustration of Sir Kenneth Robinson's presentation on schooling in the 21st century. It's fascinating to watch an illustrator create a visual map of Robinson's ideas as they are spoken. The content of the presentation is enormously important to any educator struggling to change the system. It's even more important to those who've been subdued and mislead by old ideas into thinking they can't learn or create.
Connect Classrooms From Around The World - 17 views
YouTube - The Coca Cola Friendship Machine - 12 views
Buffy Hamilton on Enchantment - YouTube - 10 views
Google+ could make Twitter the next Myspace | VentureBeat - 4 views
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Although Twitter is growing (having just hit 200 million tweets a day), Twitter has left itself open to be displaced with a slow pace of adding features. Even newly returned founder Jack Dorsey has said that it was too difficult for “normal” people to use Twitter.
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Google+ is decidedly in the Twitter camp — meaning you can follow anyone, including Google CEO Larry Page. Google+ lets you see Page’s posts and “like” his photos of kite surfing in Alaska. When posting on Google+, it forces users to select specific social circles they are posting to, which includes “everyone” as an option that mimics a Twitter-style broadcast. I
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There are two different types of social networks, private and public — each defined by its default privacy setting. Facebook is by default private and meant to connect actual friends. Twitter by default is public and anyone can follow anyone else.
Can a Lack of Sleep Set Back Your Child's Cognitive Abilities? -- New York Magazine - 11 views
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“Sleep disorders can impair children’s I.Q.’s as much as lead exposure.”
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Please tell parents that even losing an hour of sleep will impair their children. "The performance gap caused by an hour's difference in sleep was bigger than the normal gap between a fourth-grader and a sixth-grader. Which is another way of saying that a slightly sleepy sixth-grader will perform in class like a mere fourth-grader. "A loss of one hour of sleep is equivalent to [the loss of] two years of cognitive maturation and development," Sadeh explains."
Copyright 101: A Simple Lesson in Licenses - YouTube - 7 views
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A simple video tutorial I created for my students including these essential questions: What is copyright? How long does it last? What are the kinds of copyright? How can I copyright my own work? How can I find works I can use freely? Do I still have to give credit for the work? How can i buy license for professional work? What are the penalties for not following copyright?
Children of Civil War Veterans Still Walk Among Us, 150 Years After the War - 2 views
elearn Magazine: How to Help Teachers Use Technology in the Classroom - 13 views
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"Back to the Drawing Board: The 5Js In the 1990s, the Austin-based educational organization, SEDL, developed a technology professional development framework called the "5Js." The five 'J's, which I will explain in further detail in this article, are: job-related just enough just in time just in case just try it."
ipl2 Information You Can Trust Internet Public Library.url - 0 views
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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.
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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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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.
Maths Webinar - Making Maths Magical - 2 views
How the Student Loan Issue Could Determine the Next President - The Good Men Project - 0 views
Holiday in a Bottle - 2 views
Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos: A Win for the Christian Right - Rolling Stone - 1 views
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