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Phresh Philadelphia - 0 views

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    A non-profit that was started by a Philly Science and Leadership Academy student. 
Blair Peterson

Sean Nash's profile - 1 views

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    Sean Nash's presentation on What does a teacher need to know and/or be able to do to be considered 'technologically savvy' in the year 2012. Not much content but he lays out the big ideas and then sets up a chalk talk.
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DLC « Instructional Technology - 2 views

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    Digital Learning Collaborative. Site with information on work that is being done in a district in CO. 
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Danah Boyd - Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Children today, she said, are reacting online largely to social changes that have taken place off line.
  • “We need to give kids the freedom to explore and experience things online that might actually help them,”
  • “Danah is very good at figuring out how to crack those codes. And she’s made a strong case that teenagers are using the Internet in ways that are far more productive and creative and less harmful than people assume.”
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How Kodak Squandered Every Single Digital Opportunity It Had - 0 views

  • Don’t be afraid to cannibalize your own business in the name of progress.
  • But Kodak’s inability to make any of its products stand out over the last decade is demonstrative of an overall reluctance to innovate.
  • The story of Kodak’s downfall is an affirmation that true innovative spirit is much more often found in smaller companies and startups rather than old-school behemoths of yesteryear. After all, if you don’t have much to lose, you tend to make many more all-in bets. But, as Kodak has shown, if you do nothing but play it safe, the cost just to stay in the game will whittle you down until you’ve got nothing left.
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O-MUN - 0 views

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Badges/About - MozillaWiki - 1 views

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    This program through Mozilla allows organizations to issue "badges" for learning that people can use to promote learning accomplishments.
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The 21st Century Learner - YouTube - 2 views

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    Video starts off with Robert Seeley Brown. Descriptions of kids today.
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21st Century Learning?!?! - YouTube - 1 views

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    A video with short clips from a variety of sources on 21st century learning. 
Blair Peterson

Innovation in Journalism and Technology | edtechdigest.com - 0 views

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    The real world benefits of computer science and journalism. One example of how professions are changing.
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Idaho Teachers Fight a Reliance on Computers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • “Teachers don’t object to the use of technology,” said Sabrina Laine, vice president of the American Institutes for Research,
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Brain scan: Making data dance | The Economist - 1 views

  • that it no longer makes sense to consider the world as divided between developing and industrialised countries; and that people everywhere respond similarly to increasing levels of wealth and health, with higher material aspirations and smaller families. “There is no such thing as a ‘we’ and a ‘they’, with a gap in between,”
  • The best measure of political stability of a country, he believes, is whether fertility rates are falling, because that indicates that women are being educated and basic health services are being provided. “
  • Innovation in infographics has always been driven by the need to explain difficult things,
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  • Nightingale’s famous “coxcomb” chart from 1858 demonstrated that improving hygiene in British military hospitals slashed mortality rates. She said its design was intended “to affect thro’ the eyes what we fail to convey to the public through their word-proof ears.”
  • Twenty years later his word-proof students would get something altogether more dynamic than Nightingale’s pie charts to demystify global socioeconomic trends.
  • “It was a conscious intent to make the data look alive,”
  • “Statistics constitute a bulk of information that is surprisingly badly organised,”
  • The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.”
  • “While nothing now can stop the surge to 9 billion, if the poorest 2 billion get improved child survival and the ability to buy bicycles and mobile phones, population growth will stop.
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David Jakes Presentation Resources - Developing Guidelines for Social Media - 1 views

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    Links to resources for developing social media guidelines.
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