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Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011 | Epicenter | Wired.com - 1 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 06 Oct 11
     
    Steve Jobs' obituary on wired news. He died too young but lived while he lived. May innovation at Apple not die with him. I think this makes us all sad because so much of innovation in the last years have been tied up with his leadership and vision that it is hard to imagine a world without him. I think it is harder to imagine imagination without him. Do we have the creativity in us to come up with things no one has thought of and improve millions of lives?
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Microsoft Unveils New Xbox Live Statistics - Average Gamerscore: 11,286 | News & Opinio... - 0 views

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  • Rachel H on 20 Oct 11
     
    as of october20,2011 x-box live says: more than 20 million users log on to x-box live more than 4 billion hours of gaming-multipayer-only over the last 8 years of the service existence.
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25 ways technology has changed our lives - 0 views

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  • Safaan Rahim on 28 Oct 13
     
    Technology has changed the world and, in doing so, has changed the way we live. Here are 25 things we no longer do, or do differently, because of technology.
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The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | What Makes a Great Teacher? | Amanda Ripley - 0 views

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  • This tale of two boys, and of the millions of kids just like them, embodies the most stunning finding to come out of education research in the past decade: more than any other variable in education—more than schools or curriculum—teachers matter. Put concretely, if Mr. Taylor’s student continued to learn at the same level for a few more years, his test scores would be no different from those of his more affluent peers in Northwest D.C. And if these two boys were to keep their respective teachers for three years, their lives would likely diverge forever. By high school, the compounded effects of the strong teacher—or the weak one—would become too great.
  • Farr was tasked with finding out. Starting in 2002, Teach for America began using student test-score progress data to put teachers into one of three categories: those who move their students one and a half or more years ahead in one year; those who achieve one to one and a half years of growth; and those who yield less than one year of gains. In the beginning, reliable data was hard to come by, and many teachers could not be put into any category. Moreover, the data could never capture the entire story of a teacher’s impact, Farr acknowledges.
  • They were also perpetually looking for ways to improve their effectiveness
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  • First, great teachers tended to set big goals for their students.
  • Great teachers, he concluded, constantly reevaluate what they are doing.
  • Superstar teachers had four other tendencies in common: they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
  • When her fourth-grade students entered her class last school year, 66 percent were scoring at or above grade level in reading. After a year in her class, only 44 percent scored at grade level, and none scored above. Her students performed worse than fourth-graders with similar incoming scores in other low-income D.C. schools. For decades, education researchers blamed kids and their home life for their failure to learn. Now, given the data coming out of classrooms like Mr. Taylor’s, those arguments are harder to take. Poverty matters enormously. But teachers all over the country are moving poor kids forward anyway, even as the class next door stagnates. “At the end of the day,” says Timothy Daly at the New Teacher Project, “it’s the mind-set that teachers need—a kind of relentless approach to the problem.”
  • are almost never dismissed.
  • What did predict success, interestingly, was a history of perseverance—not just an attitude, but a track record. In the interview process, Teach for America now asks applicants to talk about overcoming challenges in their lives—and ranks their perseverance based on their answers.
  • Gritty people, the theory goes, work harder and stay committed to their goals longer
  • This year, Teach for America allowed me to sit in on the part of the interview process that it calls the “sample teach,” in which applicants teach a lesson to the other applicants for exactly five minutes. Only about half of the candidates make it to this stage. On this day, the group includes three men and two women, all college seniors or very recent graduates.
  • But if school systems hired, trained, and rewarded teachers according to the principles Teach for America has identified, then teachers would not need to work so hard. They would be operating in a system designed in a radically different way—designed, that is, for success.
  • five observation sessions conducted throughout the year by their principal, assistant principal, and a group of master educators.
  • t year’s end, teachers who score below a certain threshold could be fired.
  • But this tradition may be coming to an end. He’s thinking about quitting in the next few years.
  • kimberly caise on 04 Feb 10
     
    "This tale of two boys, and of the millions of kids just like them, embodies the most stunning finding to come out of education research in the past decade: more than any other variable in education-more than schools or curriculum-teachers matter. Put concretely, if Mr. Taylor's student continued to learn at the same level for a few more years, his test scores would be no different from those of his more affluent peers in Northwest D.C. And if these two boys were to keep their respective teachers for three years, their lives would likely diverge forever. By high school, the compounded effects of the strong teacher-or the weak one-would become too great."
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Elluminate Teacher Certification Program - 0 views

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  • Julie Lindsay on 03 Sep 09
     
    The Elluminate Teacher Certification Program is designed to help teachers acquire the skills and knowledge needed to teach and learn online. Participants will learn how to use Elluminate Live! to deliver interactive, engaging online learning experiences for K-12 students. The program requires participants to demonstrate a superior command of the use of the Elluminate Live! moderator tools and feature set. Additionally, participants will learn to apply those tools and techniques to create learner centric online classrooms that will increase student achievement and satisfaction. The Elluminate Teacher Certification Program is for anyone, not just Elluminate customers, who wants to excel in the virtual classroom. No prior Elluminate product purchase is necessary. UCSD Extension Education is offering 2 units of credit for completion of the certification.
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Microsoft denies widespread Xbox Live hacking issue - Gaming News - Digital Spy - 0 views

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  • Rachel H on 18 Oct 11
     
    how x-box live account holders has been targeted by hackers
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For Educators | Global Lives ProjectGlobal Lives Project - 2 views

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  • Ann Rooney on 10 Nov 14
     
    The Global Lives Project develops enriching content and lesson plans for teachers addressing themes of globalization and cross-cultural awareness through the lens of new media. …
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The app-driven life: How smartphone apps are changing our lives - 0 views

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  • Lauren Skillinge on 22 Oct 13
     
    This article describes how today's society revolves around smart phones. Apps are becoming more and more relevant because they are assisting people to organize and facilitate the activities of their everyday lives.
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13 Ways the Internet Effects Our Lives - 1 views

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  • Levi Trapanotto on 07 Nov 13
     
    The internet has transformed our lives in so many ways. To think that just 20 years ago almost nobody had even heard of the internet - if you asked someone what a domain name was in 1991, they would have looked at you a little funny. Now we do everything online - from banking to communicating with long lost friends.
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Can you live without Google? - Times Online - 0 views

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  • MATTHEW G on 26 Oct 10
     
    google can we live without it
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YouTube - The band that never met each other - 0 views

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  • krysten j on 06 Oct 09
     
    these people never met each other. they live in different countries. one person recorded something and sent it to someone else and that person recorded something and sent it to someone else and they kept doing that.
  • virginia vereen on 06 Oct 09
     
    The band who never met each other is a great example for connecting the world online because it shows that a person can do more than just talk to one another, they can collaborate and make great things happen. And all these people live in different countries!! It truly shows that everyone in the world is connected online.
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Analysis: How Google Has Changed Our Lives - News and Analysis by PC Magazine - 0 views

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  • Riley Westwood9 on 06 Oct 09
     
    A article on google about how it has changed our lives over the years.
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India Is Outsourcing … to the U.S.? | Current Events | Living Frugally | Lear... - 0 views

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  • d a popular NBC sitcom.
  • We knew what the charade was—outsourced
  • workers in India pretending to be American
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  • call-center workers. Initial indignation morphed into
  • reluctant acceptance, and outsourcing to India has
  • become such a part of our culture that it inspire
  • In a move that signifies one of the quirkier things happening to the global economy, outsourcing companies in India (where more than a third of the country lives on $1.25 a day) are starting to open centers and hire employees in the
  • U.S. (where minimum wage is $7.25 an hour).
  • Salaries are rising 10% a year in India, so labor isn’t as cheap as it used to be.“Near-sourcing” saves these firms the travel expenses of flying workers from India to the U.S. to meet their clients.They gain efficiency by preventing mistakes that occur due to unfamiliarity with American culture.The companies can access new markets, such as healthcare companies, government agencies, utility companies and defense contractors that don’t want sensitive data leaving the U.S.Having bases around the world means they can do work around the clock.
  • This new trend is a positive sign in that it shows that American workers still have skills that Indian workers can’t match—and that Indian companies are willing to pay extra for it. The firms are supplying good jobs now, and plan to expand their U.S. outposts, creating even more opportunities in the future
  • tommy s on 18 Oct 11
     
    india outsourcing to the u.s.
  • tommy s on 18 Oct 11
     
    india coming back to u.s.
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How Tech Has Changed Our Lives | PCMag.com - 0 views

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  • Angela S on 31 Oct 11
     
    how technology changed lives
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The Business of Street Painting Art: Web 2.0 - 0 views

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  • Jeff Kern on 04 Mar 13
     
    This article talks about how a video channel uses live streams online to give video coverage of street paintings being created and presented. 
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3-D Virtual Communication in Our Lives | WIRED COSMOS - 0 views

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  • Sebastian Michalak on 05 Mar 13
     
    This is about new type of communication. At Queen's University they're researching about hologram like communication which could be used as a new kind of entertainment.
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The British-born artist who became one of India's leading talents - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Connor Simpson on 28 Feb 13
     
    Bharti Kher intended on staying in India for six months, but this British born artist has lived there for the last twenty years. While in India, Kher not only found her husband, but also became a famous artist. Her work is know shown all around the world. 
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College Is Dead. Long Live College! | TIME.com - 1 views

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  • jessica Friday on 24 Oct 12
     
    An interesting story that describes the changing face of college in America and the global community.  Begins with a very interesting scenario about a young girl taking an on-line physics course in Pakistan and the way her on-line global "classmates" helped her to finish the course after it was blocked by her government.
  • Rocket Surgeon on 01 Nov 12
     
    An article about new, free, online college courses and how they work. Yeah, I'm totally taking one of these.
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College Is Dead. Long Live College! | TIME.com - 1 views

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  • Rocket Surgeon on 01 Nov 12
     
    An article about free online college courses. Yeah, I'm totally going to take one of these.
  • kelsy lysek on 01 Mar 13
     
    This article discusses virtual classrooms and the benefits it has for students.
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Importance of Art And Entertainment In Our Society - 0 views

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  • Sheridan Brodhead on 25 Mar 12
     
    This article explains one way that the arts and entertainment are important in our lives.
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