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YouTube - Jack Bauer interroga a Santa Claus - 3 views

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Jack Bauer Patriot Act Christmas torture humor Kiefer Sutherland Spanish subtitles

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Kiefer Sutherland rocks. Santa too.

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Phone Smart - What Your Phone Might Do for You Two Years From Now - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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smartphone ubiquitous computing augmented reality future prediction

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The future of smartphones, including "an electroactive polymer that vibrates beneath the glass, and gives your fingers the sense of touching individual keys." NYTimes article, may require login

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Google Offers Users a Peek At Stored Data - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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google privacy Web 2.0 gmail

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Google opens the book on privacy (somewhat).

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BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Danish pupils use web in exams - 2 views

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testing exams innovation cheating e-learning international integrity

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Schools in Denmark are piloting a program which allows students to use computers with internet access on national writing exams.

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YouTube - PSCS on KIRO-TV, 1994 - 1 views

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online school internet early adopter distance learning

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Amazing idea, school online. Is it even possible? For credit too? From 1994

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Nick Siewert on 31 Oct 09

School online, what a concept. Kinda crazy, right? Great look back at 1994.

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Nationwide: Computers Increase Students' Temptation To Cheat -- Courant.com - 0 views

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cheating K-12 cybersecurity school networks ethics

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Tecahers must now learn how to craft assignments which do not lend themselves easily to cheating. Dealing with network security issues is probably the easier task of the two.

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FRONTLINE: digital nation: learning: schools: shop class computing | PBS - 2 views

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21st Century Skills computer workforce training literacy

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Todd Oppenheimer, author of The Flickering Mind, on teaching real world computer skills.

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Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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digital books reading neuroscience child development ebooks

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Discussion on whether digital reading differs neurologically from paper reading.

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How video games are good for the brain - The Boston Globe - 2 views

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Generalizability to non-game situations is the big question surrounding other emerging games, particularly software that is being marketed explicitly as a way to keep neurons spry as we age. The jury is still out on whether practicing with these games helps people outside of the context of the game.
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Make-up school work goes high-tech - Local - The Sun News - 0 views

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K-8 learning Smartboard homework

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Students are using "Smart bracelets" to carry makeup work from school to home.

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Nick Siewert on 02 Oct 09

I'm trying to figure out how this is different or value added from just giving every kid a $10 flash thumbdrive.

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Parents still angry even after Palm Beach County makes concessions on testing for high-... - 0 views

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Facebook FCAT protest standardized testing Web 2.0 Florida

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But at Tuesday's meeting, parents were too angry to acknowledge that Hernandez had made his first major concession since they began organizing on Facebook
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  Does this mean Facebook is so, like, yesterday?
  
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Nick Siewert on 02 Oct 09

Facebook as a tool for social protest. Just as soon as schools get their heads around student use of Facebook, here come the parents.

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Nick Siewert on 02 Oct 09

Facebook as a tool for social protest. Just as soon as schools get their heads around student use of Facebook, here come the parents.

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GPS helps teach Sartell-St. Stephen students important lessons | sctimes.com | St. Clou... - 0 views

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They hope the high-tech tools will engage technically savvy students.
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  Not even sure this qualifies as high tech any more.
  
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“When you get to go outside and learn and observe, it’s a lot better than just reading about it in a book,”
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Education Week: Technology Links Students to Fieldwork - 0 views

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distance learning K-12 science research blogs

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Students get connected to real world science research through Web 2.0

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Students get connected to real world science research through Web 2.0

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Education Week: 'School of Future' Struggles to Break From the Past - 0 views

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21st century schools computers innovation reform high school

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The Microsoft backed experimental "School of the Future" in Philadelphia is in many ways hard to distinguish from a typical high school.

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Anil Dash: Most Interesting Start-up of the Year? The Federal Government - 0 views

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start up government transparency Web 2.0 Obama freedom of information

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Our government catches up to the web 2.0 world.

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Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com - 0 views

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neurology artificial intelligence Bruce Katz

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On the frontier of neuro-engineering, the ultimate AI.

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Education Week: Books Face Extinction as Schools Go High-Tech - 0 views

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The Fall of Multi-Tasking : Education Next - 0 views

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multitasking tech generation cognitive change

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Benjamin Berte liked it

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multi-tasking vs: serial tasking

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A Kindle for Every Student - US News and World Report - 0 views

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E-textbook K-12 reading hardware publishing

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Pros and cons of the Kindle in K-12 education. Necessity or "Whack-a-Mole"?

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Education Week: Wyo. Virtual School Students Score Poorly on Test - 0 views

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T561 virtual school distance learning testing Wyoming

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Full article requires registration with Ed Week.

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Virtual Schooling gone awry in Wyoming.

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