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Annika Sundlof

What if Africa were to become the hub for global science? - 0 views

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  • Annika Sundlof on 22 Oct 13
     
    This article discusses sub-Saharan Africa's potential for scientific study, reasons why advanced study is not common yet, and various institutions that aim to facilitate and spread scientific education.
Taylor Wasem

Mobile phone technology to tackle environmental threats - 0 views

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  • Taylor Wasem on 22 Oct 13
     
    This article discusses the use of mobile technology to help locate plants that are threatening to the environment. An app can be downloaded to a smartphone, and through pictures and a GPS, the app can locate multiple species of these threatening plants.
Taylor Wasem

Mobile Phone Technology for Environmental Activism · Global Voices - 0 views

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  • Taylor Wasem on 28 Oct 13
     
    Environmental activists are using mobile technology to show the importance of protecting the environment and how much of an impact making smarter environmental decisions can make.
Ivy F.

Mobile device - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Handheld_computer

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  • A mobile device (also known as a handheld device, handheld computer or simply handheld) is a pocket-sized computing device, typically having a display screen with touch input and/or a miniature keyboard. In the case of the personal digital assistant (PDA) the input and output are often combined into a touch-screen interface. Smartphones and PDAs are popular amongst those who require the assistance and convenience of certain aspects of a conventional computer, in environments where carrying one would not be practical.
  • andheld devices have become ruggedized for use in mobile field management situations to record information in the field. They are used to achieve a variety of tasks for increasing efficiency that include digitizing notes, sending and receiving invoices, asset management, recording signatures, managing parts and scanning barcodes.
Haley A

MTech | Guest Experience Management & Workflow Software for Hotels - 0 views

www.m-tech.com

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  • Haley A on 30 Sep 10
     
    Hotels and WFS
Connor M

The Internet and Education | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

www.pewinternet.org/...he-Internet-and-Education.aspx

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  • Connor M on 30 Sep 10
     
    This source outlines the major effects of the world wide web on education. It expresses how the more recent aspects of the internet have benefitted education greatly. It proposes something that is rather shocking, saying that the internet has replaced the library for a large number of people.
Vanessa S

Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches - Times Online - 0 views

technology.timesonline.co.uk/...article5489134.ece

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  • Vanessa S on 05 Oct 10
     
    it explains the impact and the things goole did for us
Vicki Davis

TELEPORT - A 3D Telepresence System - 0 views

www.ercim.org/...breiteneder.html

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  • The TELEPORT environment is designed to overcome disadvantages of desktop videoconferencing and to establish life-like conference sessions that bring people together as if face-to-face. The system consists of a real room with one wall entirely covered b a display surface. Onto that surface a virtual extension of the real room is projected. As the local participant moves, his location is tracked ­ thus allowing the synthetic scene to be rendered with the correct perspective.
  • Vicki Davis on 08 Nov 08
     
    The next evolution of connecting the world online - a great topic for a video.
  • Vicki Davis on 08 Nov 08
     
    Would love to see us look into 3D learning as well - from an older article in 1997.
Julie Lindsay

From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments | Academic Commons - 0 views

www.academiccommons.org/...knowledgable-knowledge-able

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  • Julie Lindsay on 07 Feb 09
     
    A must-read Article by Michael Wesch, author of the video The Machine is Us-ing them
Vicki Davis

ASCD - 0 views

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  • has to think, be flexible, change, and use a variety of tools to solve new problems. We change what we do all the time. I can guarantee the job I hire someone to do will change or may not exist in the future, so this is why adaptability and learning skills are more important than technical skills
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 28 Oct 08
       
      Adaptability and learning skills -- this is why building a PLN is so important!!
  • I say to my employees, if you try five things and get all five of them right, you may be failing. If you try 10 things, and get eight of them right, you're a hero. You'll never be blamed for failing to reach a stretch goal, but you will be blamed for not trying.
  • risk aversion
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  • entrepreneurial culture
  • Effective Oral and Written Communication
  • clear and concise
  • focus, energy, and passion around the points they want to make.
  • first 60 seconds of your presentation is
  • Summers and other leaders from various companies were not necessarily complaining about young people's poor grammar, punctuation, or spelling—the things we spend so much time teaching and testing in our schools
  • the complaints I heard most frequently were about fuzzy thinking and young people not knowing how to write with a real voice.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 28 Oct 08
       
      Writing with voice = blogging -- give students a voice, this means first person, NOT third person writing.
  • Employees in the 21st century have to manage an astronomical amount of information daily.
  • There is so much information available that it is almost too much, and if people aren't prepared to process the information effectively it almost freezes them in their steps.”
  • rapidly the information is changing.
  • half-life of knowledge in the humanities is 10 years, and in math and science, it's only two or three years
  • “People who've learned to ask great questions and have learned to be inquisitive are the ones who move the fastest in our environment because they solve the biggest problems in ways that have the most impact on innovation.”
  • want unique products and services:
  • developing young people's capacities for imagination, creativity, and empathy will be increasingly important for maintaining the United States' competitive advantage in the future.
  • The three look at one another blankly, and the student who has been doing all the speaking looks at me and shrugs.
  • The test contains 80 multiple-choice questions related to the functions and branches of the federal government.
  • Let me tell you how to answer this one
  • reading from her notes,
  • Each group will try to develop at least two different ways to solve this problem. After all the groups have finished, I'll randomly choose someone from each group who will write one of your proofs on the board, and I'll ask that person to explain the process your group used.”
  • a lesson in which students are learning a number of the seven survival skills while also mastering academic content?
  • students are given a complex, multi-step problem that is different from any they've seen in the past
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 28 Oct 08
       
      This IS flat classroom digiteen and Horizon project and other projects where teachers are pushing kids to have novel answers to novel questions.
  • how the group solved the problem, each student in every group is held accountable.
  • ncreasingly, there is only one curriculum: test prep. Of the hundreds of classes that I've observed in recent years, fewer than 1 in 20 were engaged in instruction designed to teach students to think instead of merely drilling for the test.
  • . It is working with colleagues to ensure that all students master the skills they need to succeed as lifelong learners, workers, and citizens.
  • I have yet to talk to a recent graduate, college teacher, community leader, or business leader who said that not knowing enough academic content was a problem.
  • critical thinking, communication skills, and collaboration.
  • seven survival skills every day, at every grade level, and in every class.
  • College and Work Readiness Assessment (www.cae.org)—that measure students' analytic-reasoning, critical-thinking, problem-solving, and writing skills.
  • 2. Collaboration and Leadership
  • 3. Agility and Adaptability
  • Today's students need to master seven survival skills to thrive in the new world of work.
  • 4. Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
  • 6. Accessing and Analyzing Information
  • 7. Curiosity and Imagination
  • I conducted research beginning with conversations with several hundred business, nonprofit, philanthropic, and education leaders. With a clearer picture of the skills young people need, I then set out to learn whether U.S. schools are teaching and testing the skills that matter most.
  • Julie Lindsay on 28 Oct 08
     
    Educational Leadership article from ASCD
Vicki Davis

Eco-Bunnies - 0 views

www.eco-bunnies.com

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  • Vicki Davis on 03 Oct 08
     
    Businesses see that the way to influence education is to provide meaningful, cool video for school children. This project with students shows how education and teaching can change in a new way. Kids and teachers are connecting directly to companies and one another in cool projects like this.
  • Vicki Davis on 03 Oct 08
     
    Travelocity has worked to create a course on carbon offsets and wants help naming their eco-bunnies. This looks to be something fascinating for elementary teachers. Would love to hear what you think?
Vicki Davis

The Energy Literacy Project - 0 views

www.energy-literacy.org

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  • Vicki Davis on 04 Jul 09
     
    "There is a problem with energy literacy" says Chevron CEO, David O'Reilly, in Thomas Friedman's Hot Flat and Crowded - Julie and I are working to incorporate this into our next Flat Classroom mini-conference in Februray and we turned up this energy literacy nonprofit. This is fascinating.
Vicki Davis

Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge - 0 views

wecanchange.com

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  • Vicki Davis on 10 Apr 10
     
    Are your studetns ready to become eco-heroes? Sign up for this. "The Siemens Foundation, Discovery Education and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) are partnering again this year to educate, empower and engage students and teachers nationwide to become "Agents of Change" in improving their communities through the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge. This year the Challenge expands to high school, by inviting students in grades 9-12 to join the effort to meet the environmental challenges of our age. This new phase of the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge kicks off today at an exclusive screening of Discovery Channel's new documentary LIFE at Philadelphia's renowned Franklin Institute in conjunction with the NSTA National Conference."
  • Vicki Davis on 10 Apr 10
     
    How students are linking to improve the world. Students studying social entrepreneurship as a video topic may want to view what they are doing here.
Kunjan P

National Center for Supercomputing Applications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances science and engineering. NCSA operates as a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but it provides high-performance computing resources to researchers across the country. Support for NCSA comes from the National Science Foundation, the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, business and industry partners, and other federal agencies.
  • These centers were founded when a group of University of Illinois faculty, led by Larry Smarr, sent an unsolicited proposal to the National Science Foundation in 1983. The foundation announced funding for the supercomputer centers in 1985; the first supercomputer at NCSA came online in January 1986.
  • NCSA provides leading-edge computing, data storage, and visualization resources. NCSA computational and data environment implements a multi-architecture hardware strategy, deploying both clusters and shared memory systems to support high-end users and communities on the architectures best-suited to their requirements. Nearly 1,360 scientists, engineers and students used the computing and data systems at NCSA to support research in more than 830 projects. A list of NCSA hardware is available at NCSA Capabilities
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  • Today NCSA is collaborating with IBM, under a grant from the National Science Foundation, to build [1] "Blue Waters," a supercomputer capable of performing 1 quadrillion calculations per second, a measure known as a petaflop. Blue Waters is due to come online in 2011.
  • The Mosaic web browser, the first popular graphical Web browser which played an important part in expanding the growth of the World Wide Web, was written by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at NCSA. Andreessen and Bina went on to develop the Netscape Web browser. Mosaic was later licensed to Spyglass,_Inc. which provided the foundation for Internet Explorer.
  • Initially, NCSA's administrative offices were in the Water Resources Building and employees were scattered across the campus. NCSA is now headquartered within its own building directly north of the Siebel Center for Computer Science, on the site of a former baseball field, Illini Field. NCSA's supercomputers remain at the Advanced Computation Building, but construction is now under way on a Petascale Computing Facility to house Blue Waters.
  • Kunjan P on 06 Oct 09
     
    The NCSA is a great stepping stone to the evolution of Web 2.0.
Alexis B

How Mobile Active is Changing the World with Cell Phones : Planet Green - 1 views

planetgreen.discovery.com/...ile-active-changing-world.html

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  • Miller S. on 06 Oct 09
     
    "As cell phones become more ubiquitous, it's becoming increasingly easy to use them for positive action. We've been talking about that quite a bit lately here on Planet Green, and one of the organizations whose name keeps popping up is Mobile Active. They're a great group, and deserve a highlight. Mobile Active, as they succinctly state, is "a global network of people using mobile technology for social impact." The group recognizes that there are billions of phones across the world being used by people in even the most unlikely of places. More are entering the consumer stream on a daily basis. Therefore, a cell phone is the perfect tool with which to engage people for activism. The group works to help organizations understand how they can use mobile phones to get people involved in social change or improve their organization, reduce the costs of getting mobile phones into the hands of people who need them, speed up the adoption of mobile phones as a tool among non-profits, and facilitate the implementation of mobile phone projects and campaigns. Mobile Active takes part in issues ranging from health to environment to disaster relief. You can search through all the many projects they're involved in with their mDirectory. As you look through, there's no doubt you'll be inspired and think about your cell phone in a whole new way - as a tool for changing the world. Check out the Good Call feature here on Planet Green for great information about cell phones and activism. More on Changing the World with Cell Phones How Cell Phones Are Changing the Face of Green Activism Good Call! Using Your Mobile Phone for Green Activism We Have Green Phone Apps Galore...But Are They Doing Any Good?"
  • Miller S. on 06 Oct 09
     
    This is a great column that involves mobile and ubiquitous computing. This column is about mobile devices helping to save the earth.
Haley A

flatclassroom09-3 - Workflow Software - 4 views

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  • Skype.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 28 Oct 09
       
      Make sure that you justify how skype is part of workflow software. Also, you may want to pull out how the new skype lets you screenshare and record a movie of that and has all these productivity add ins to help workflow go.
  • we sit down and really think about it
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 28 Oct 09
       
      This should be written like a wikipedia article in 3rd person so you'll want to rewrite this - also the current news section needs quite a few hyperlinks. How about all of the Google Docs and google type things that let you compute in "the cloud" -- also, things like timebridge let work flow around the world. Look at other things that help people work together like Elluminate, for example.
  • Our project ( WFS) will be u
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 28 Oct 09
       
      Not sure I understand this- but I will give you some examples here - how about SIS (student information systems) like SASSY and Powerschool that let teachers and administrators look at information from home or school and also let work flow from one person to another.
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  • like the administrating works and stuff,
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 28 Oct 09
       
      words and stuff - this is sort of written in jargon and needs to be cleaned up a bit. Also, there are no citations and hyperlinks - how do I know that this is true? Examples of workflow software here including the article I posted to the Flat Classroom group that show that the White house has gone "open source" with the whitehouse.gov website, using something called Drupal.
  • PayPal
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 28 Oct 09
       
      The items in Arts, Entertainment and Liesture need hyperlinks - although these are solid examples. Do you have a way to show what a storyboard looks like in this section?
  • Hibbert Ralph Animation (HRA)
  • iphones
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 28 Oct 09
       
      Check the science environment and health section for adding hyperlinks and also sources.
  • Calenders
  • Workflow software can be used many ways for a government as well as politics and employment. Working as a group simultaneously is very important to fulfill some kind of difficult work, like administrating works such as Microsoft Sharepoint . Since the work that big companies do is very complicated and intertwined over and over with the part that do not really seem to be related that much, workflow software is almost mandatory to practice. Same as in politics and employment, the organization, association use this program for more efficient work capabilities (for their own profits). Many companies are using "computing in the cloud" which are free technologies like
  • mitch g on 27 Sep 10
     
    Workflow software can be used many ways for a government as well as politics and employment. Working as a group simultaneously is very important to fulfill some kind of difficult work, like administrating works such as Microsoft Sharepoint . Since the work that big companies do is very complicated and intertwined over and over with the part that do not really seem to be related that much, workflow software is almost mandatory to practice. Same as in politics and employment, the organization, association use this program for more efficient work capabilities (for their own profits). Many companies are using "computing in the cloud" which are free technologies like 
  • Haley A on 30 Sep 10
     
    Prev. Project
Suzie Nestico

Learning with 'e's: Anatomy of a PLE - 0 views

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  • Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) do exactly what they say on the can - they are personal to each individual, created by them, owned by them, used by them within their lifelong learning
  • My personal view is that students own and create their PLE but that the iMLE also has something to offer them, even though it is highly problematic in its current form. I am arguing that many students tend to avoid using the iMLE because they either find it difficult to use, or irrelevant to their daily learning needs. It is a clash of concepts, no bridge seems possible, and the problem appears to be intractable.
  • I have
    • Suzie Nestico
      Suzie Nestico on 19 Oct 11
       
      This is a great infographic to istinguish between a PLN and a PLE
Susan D

The Business of Globalization and the Globalization of Business | Journal of Comparativ... - 0 views

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  • trilogy of interactive forces that include globalization,
  • Globalization has melted national borders, free trade has enhanced economic integration and the information and communications revolution has made geography and time irrelevant.
  • The new global economy of the twenty-first century has transformed the economic, social, educational and political landscape in a profound and indelible manner.
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  • In this new environment, entrepreneurs need to articulate a pragmatic vision, exercise effective leadership and develop a competent business strategy.
  • Susan D on 20 Oct 11
     
    The talks about Globalization and how buisness is evolutionizing because of it
Mike tiani

Ubiquitous computing - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Ubiquitous_computing

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  • hannah short on 20 Oct 11
     
    This has great information on my topic for 9A mobile and Ubiquitous
  • Thomas H on 20 Oct 11
     
    Ubiquitous computing is defined '' machines that fit the human environment instead of forcing humans to enter theirs''.
  • Mike tiani on 09 Mar 12
     
    explains the main ideas of what ubiquitous computing is includes the core concepts
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