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'Bring your own device' catching on in schools | Curriculum | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

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  • amy hoffmaster on 02 May 11
     
    Overview of discussion of access issues for one-to-one devices and using personal phones in the classroom.
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Gates and Pearson Foundations to Offer Online Courses - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The 24 new courses will use video, interactive software, games, social media and other digital materials to present math lessons for kindergarten through 10th grade and English lessons for kindergarten through 12th grade..
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Learning Futures: How to engage students - Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Learning - 0 views

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    UK project on engagement and technology including projects with "bounded freedom."
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Colleges worry about always-plugged-in students - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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  • amy hoffmaster on 25 Apr 11
     
    cutting back on wireless access in Higher Ed. classes because students think they are great at multitasking, but aren't.
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Education Week: Computer Tutors Prod Students to Ask for Help - 1 views

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    interesting thoughts about how and when students seek help
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The Elephant in the Room of 21st Century Learning - The Futures of School Reform - Educ... - 1 views

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  • amy hoffmaster on 14 Apr 11
     
    not gaming, per se, but what ideas are worth teaching?
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Education Week: Games and Simulations Help Children Access Science - 0 views

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    WolfQuest, WhyPox are highlighted as tools for informal science learning.
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Drill Down: Mobile Devices in Education -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    "Parents see the use of mobile technologies in schools as a means of increasing student engagement (43 percent) and preparing students for the working world (41 percent). The most often-cited instructional benefit is mobile devices' ability to extend learning beyond school hours."
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Dead Space 2 review: How a fantastic video game nearly ruins a franchise. - By Tom Biss... - 2 views

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    "Literature has unreliable narrators, but what do you call-how would you even begin to represent-an unreliable avatar?"
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