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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Nick Siewert

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YouTube - Jack Bauer interroga a Santa Claus - 3 views

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

  • 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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      The central quation is generalizability of skills learned or transferrence of acquired knowledge.
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Make-up school work goes high-tech - Local - The Sun News - 0 views

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

  • 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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    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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    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

  • 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.
  • “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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      From the mouths of babes...
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Education Week: Technology Links Students to Fieldwork - 0 views

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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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    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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    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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    On the frontier of neuro-engineering, the ultimate AI.
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The Fall of Multi-Tasking : Education Next - 0 views

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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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    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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    Full article requires registration with Ed Week.
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    Virtual Schooling gone awry in Wyoming.
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