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PBS Brings Math to Life with Virtual Reality Game - 2 views

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    PBS Kids has developed its first augmented reality mobile phone app that overlays graphics onto real world environments. The game aims to teach math skills.
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PBS initiatives in schools - 0 views

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    Some interesting PBS initiatives in schools. They also have some good stats on teachers and technology (not sure how much is reflected in the infographic I posted earlier).
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PBS Infographic on Tech in the Classroom - 2 views

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    Nice infographic from PBS on what teachers want in the classroom, for technology.
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A tried and true source for learning (PBS) presents teacher survey - 0 views

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    Its great to see an organization like PBS jumping into both providing resources and support for educators to maximize the use of technology and not compromising quality content. Includes a teacher survey on use of technology in classrooms across the country (successes & challenges)
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PBS Kids launches augmented reality game for iOS, says all the cool kids are counting s... - 2 views

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    I feel this author's envy/nostalgia. Oregon Trail was really popular during my grade school years
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FRONTLINE: digital nation - life on the virtual frontier | PBS - 0 views

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    A TV/Web report on the digital revolution and how it's changing our lives, with video stories, interviews, and user-generated video on relationships, information overload, education, the military, parenting, brain development, and more.
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Latest News - Digital Learning - 2 views

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    In 2006 - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (the folks that seem to sponsor everything on PBS and NPR) launched its 5 year initiative to explore how youth are engaged in digital media.
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    In 2006 - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (the folks that seem to sponsor everything on PBS and NPR) launched its 5 year initiative to explore how youth are engaged in digital media.
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WYCC PBS Chicago - Digital Learners - New Learners for the 21st century - 3 views

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    On a slight scroll down the home page you can find this recently aired PBS documentary. Would love to hear comments from the community.
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Middle School Moment | Dropout Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS - 0 views

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    A case-study on how one school is using data to help prevent dropouts in middle school.
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John Merrow: Education Predictions for 2012 - 3 views

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    Author makes predictions for 2012, including increase in blended learning. A video of PBS Newshour speaks of school choices in Indiana - public school in other areas, private school, or public charter school with military rituals.
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MediaShift . 8 Lessons in the Art of Teaching Journalism Online | PBS - 1 views

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    Best practices and lessons learned for online learning.
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MediaShift . The Challenge of Digital Media in the Classroom | PBS - 2 views

  • Today almost any school in America, however poor or remote, can possess the equivalent of the greatest library in the history of the world, simply by virtue of the Internet
  • Multi-Tasking Myth?
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    Two interesting point about poor schools with the potential to access rich library resources and also the myth about multi-tasking (resonates with part of Sherry Turkle's message in this week's video.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS Receive Ready To Learn Grant Funding fr... - 1 views

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    There could be some real potential here for use of grants beyond the television screen. I'd be interested to track how this money is allocated across platforms, especially emerging ones like apps for phones/iPads.
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Teaching: Prepare and Connect | U.S. Department of Education - 3 views

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      Seems to me to be a real disconnect with respect to assessment. Assessment, testing in the old model, did not authentically serve the learner. It served the system (modeled on the industrial reward paradigm). If we are focused on learning, assessment only serves the learner in terms of feedback but not as "assessment" as in: you worked hard and you get an 'A'. Getting an 'A' has even less relevance in the 21st centruy paradigm.
  • Educators can view and analyze their practice and then innovate and customize new ways to refine their craft in light of new insights.
  • PBS TeacherLine
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  • PBS TeacherLine
  • The technology that enables connected teaching is available now, but not all the conditions necessary to leverage it are
  • 3.0 Teaching:
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      I don't think this is intentional but I love the catch phrase of "3.0 Teaching" as a play off of Web 2.0.
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FRONTLINE: digital nation: learning: schools: shop class computing | PBS - 2 views

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    Todd Oppenheimer, author of The Flickering Mind, on teaching real world computer skills.
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How YouTube is revolutionizing education - 0 views

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    On YouTube EDU and some of the successes beyond just the Khan Academy
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Special Series: Unplug 2012 - 0 views

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    Our increasing connectedness -- the always-on smartphone, the ever-present social networks, the daily media deluge -- is affecting our lives in ways we can't even yet fathom. So this week, as summer kicks off across the U.S., MediaShift is looking at how and why people are choosing to "unplug" from technology.
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Catching Cheaters on Open Online Courses - 1 views

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    a youtube video on cheating prevention
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