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eGFI - Student Blog » Bendable Computer Screens - 2 views

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    Will bendable computer screens save newspapers?
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    Ha-hah! Thats awesome. I guess it was only a matter of time until we had flexible computer screens. I'm not sure if it will save and/or replace newspapers. I could definitely see consumers buying this screen and having their news constantly updated. Sure you can look to a computer or smartphone for news, but there's something appealing about this newspaper-like screen...

The great iPad debate - 3 views

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The promises of using an iPad within education - 1 views

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    Part 2 of 3 of the great iPad debate
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The Challenges of Implementing an iPad based curriculum - 2 views

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    Part 1 of 3 of the Great iPad Debate.
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Help! My Smartphone Is Making Me Dumb - or Maybe Not | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 1 views

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    Smartphones effecting our brains?  
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Gardening: Learning Doesn't Always Come out of A Book - Millburn-Short Hills, NJ Patch - 0 views

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    Location-based cell phone use
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Jewish Inventor Of 'Google Android' Talks About Transforming Mobile Internet, 200,000 N... - 2 views

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    What out for the Android.
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IBM High School Will Churn Out IT Pros | Fast Company - 3 views

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    K-14 Stem Schools?
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    AHA! This is really interesting...I have to say I appreciate the upheaval of something we take as a given--that the system necessarily has to work k-12. A guaranteed associates degree is provocative to think about in a range emerging fields. . .
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Student finds success with virtual school - 1 views

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    10th grader quits a traditional school to learn at a virtual school
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Classrooms on the cutting edge - 0 views

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    South Carolina school using technology in the classrooms and the school has raised it's test scores.
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BBC News - Japan develops robotic seals to comfort sick and elderly - 1 views

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    Interesting video in light of our discussions on AI toys. This is going for a much older audience, but some of the "reactive" qualities would be extremely applicable to products for children.
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My Noteit An online note taking tool for students - 0 views

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    A new online-based note taking tool... I will be trying this out this week
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"Singapore Math" - 1 views

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    Curious what math teachers in our class think about this. Anyone worked with these methods?
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    I was talking with Arene about this. He has taught math in middle school and high school in Singapore. When I asked if teaching this in the US would be effective he had some interesting points. You should talk with him to get an accurate account, but one of the questions he raised in our conversation was the following: Does this pedagogy that works in the cultural context of Singapore transfer to the United States?
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Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything - 2 views

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    For all you English teachers out there who die a little bit inside every time you read shortcut language- I wish you a happy Friday.
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Pearson and Commonwealth of Virginia Launch First-ever iPad Social Studies Curriculum - 3 views

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    The textbook publishers are working hard to stay relevant
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Disrupting Class comes to life - 2 views

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    If you haven't yet seen it, there is a fascinating video of Sal Khan speaking at the Gel 2010 conference. For those who haven't been following, Khan is the creator of the Khan Academy-a non-profit that has over 1,800 videos for free on the Web that teach topics in Math, Science, the Humanities, and so forth-and have attracted such an impressive following that they have more viewers than even MIT's open courses on YouTube. The Khan Academy reaches people all over the world with these videos, and recently Google awarded it $2 million to create more videos and translate them into additional languages.
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Intelligent Individuals Don't Make Groups Smarter | Wired Science | Wired.com - 3 views

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    Finding common factors to estimate the success of groups has little to do with intelligence
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BBC News - 'Fair trade' solution to learning a new language - 1 views

  • in our ever-shrinking, networked world, the chance to learn new languages direct from the communities that speak it naturally is just a few clicks away.
  • There are lots of different ways of learning languages. "Different people learn in different ways. I think these kinds of virtual environments are really great, really good. Kids in school respond very well to these sorts of approaches."
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    "Anything that brings language alive, whether that's in the real world or the virtual world, is a good thing."
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