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Fraud U: Toppling a Bogus-Diploma Empire | Magazine - 9 views

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Online education

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Please read through the comments for perspectives. And try to site back and imagine their perspective. We're going to be inherently biased about this one

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Mobile-phone culture: The Apparatgeist calls | The Economist - 2 views

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'emerging tech'

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iPods and educational applications have Minnesota students giddy about learning - TwinC... - 0 views

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ed tech

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Local dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years - Minneapolis / St. Paul News - C... - 3 views

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Does my tweet look fat? - 1 views

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Uruguay becomes first nation to provide a laptop for every primary school student - 0 views

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OLPC One Laptop Per Child Uruguay laptop

shared by Uche Amaechi on 18 Oct 09 - Cached

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One laptop per elementary school kids, in Uruguay.

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In Rural Africa, a Fertile Market for Mobile Phones - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Mobile Phones are being used to pull people out of poverty through informal learning and direct work applications

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Turn on your iPod and learn - MBAs Guide, Postgraduate - The Independent - 0 views

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Emerging technologies podcasts t561 learning

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Can podcasts replace professors?

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Cyclopedia Augmented Reality iPhone App Drenches Your World In Wikipedia - Cyclopedia -... - 1 views

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T561 emerging emerging ed tech

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Augmented reality, For RLZ!

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ReadWriteWeb's List of Kid-Friendly Online Resources - 0 views

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t561 video games ratings informal learning

shared by Uche Amaechi on 26 Sep 09 - Cached

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Fox's IGN Entertainment purchases "What they Play site" that uses the ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board" data to provide a family guide to video games

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Project 'Gaydar': An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy - The Bos... - 0 views

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emerging technologies t561 social analytics

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Really? Social Analytics to discover whether you're gay. Their methodology seems like common sense. but I still question the conclusions. Especially since it wasn't tested.

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Students appear less likely to cheat in online classes - Ars Technica - 0 views

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shared by Uche Amaechi on 18 Sep 09 - Cached

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Students less likely to cheat in virtual classrooms... But what are the criteria for cheating in these classrooms, vs. in traditional classrooms? what constitutes cheating impacts how often somebody is seen as transgressing

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Anthologized - 0 views

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"Is Google Making Us Stupid" going into three anthologies

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Let them eat tweet - 0 views

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social networking t561 emerging technologies

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Nick Carr's take on FT twitter article

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FT.com / Columnists / Gideon Rachman - A categorical imperative to twitter - 0 views

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emerging technologies t561 social networking

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What is Twitter doing to us?

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Ning's App Strategy - Forbes.com - 0 views

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shared by Uche Amaechi on 12 Sep 09 - No Cached

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Ning trying to spread it's wings. Let's users create their own social networks-mini facebooks-if you will. Ning is slowly becoming popular in classrooms and institutions of higher learning

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The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions | Information Is Beautiful - 0 views

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shared by Uche Amaechi on 08 Sep 09 - Cached

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interesting take on the technology that's competing for our attention--creating multi tasking monsters of us all, or as some would argue, ADD junkies with continuous partial attention

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Facebook 'enhances intelligence' but Twitter 'diminishes it', claims psychologist - Tel... - 0 views

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'working memory' learning social networking t561 ed tech

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ibid

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Psychologist: Facebook makes you smarter, Twitter makes you dumber | Technically Incorr... - 0 views

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Learning working memory social networks t561 'ed tech'

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Anything that involves 'instant' such as twitter, texting, and youtube, hurt your 'working memory' and thus make you dumber. Facebook, on the other hand, expands your working memory as you seek to keep in touch with all your 'friends'. Really?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Anything that involves 'instant' such as twitter, texting, and youtube, hurt your 'working memory' and thus make you dumber. Facebook, on the other hand, expands your working memory as you seek to keep in touch with all your 'friends'. Really?</div>

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Is Online Education More Effective Than Traditional Learning? - 2 views

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Online t561 Ed tech technology learning education

shared by Uche Amaechi on 07 Sep 09 - Cached

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One of the fastest growing uses of tech is online learning...

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