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Brandon Bentley

Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook - 1 views

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    How teens are leveraging facebook to meet their personal needs (super log-off, whitewashing).
Brandon Bentley

Episode 77: Wired Magazine Co-Founder's Tech Advice for Academics - 1 views

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    Kevin Kelly, one of the founders of Wired Magazine, sat down with the Tech Therapy team to talk about his new book What Technology Wants, and what his framework for understanding change means for colleges.
anonymous

Texting and Risky Behavior - KIMT.com - Iowa & Minnesota Together - 2 views

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    A new survey is showing one in five students are "hyper texters" - texting 120 times a day. This group is three and half times more likely to have had sex with their peers. The study goes on to show those who just text a lot, are more likely to fight, drink and take illegal drugs.
Chris Dede

Education Week: Framework Crafted for Student Use of Mobile Devices - 3 views

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    Proposed policy framework for student use of mobile devices
Natalie Hebshie

Trickle Down Technology: Tech Lessons Learned From Higher Ed -- THE Journal - 1 views

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    An interesting read in light of what we read in Disrupting Class - looking to higher ed as guinea pig for technology implementation in K-12.
Chris Dede

A 'Stealth Assessment' Turns to Video Games to Measure Thinking Skills - Technology - T... - 3 views

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    using videogames to measure thinking skills
Natalie Hebshie

2010 Horizon Report - 1 views

shared by Natalie Hebshie on 10 Nov 10 - Cached
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    The Horizon Report is referenced in a lot of our readings but I don't think we've actually read it. Here is the latest reports. It breaks down technologies to look out for in 1 year or less, 2-3 years, 4-5 years.
Garron Hillaire

App Organizes the World Inside Your Smart Phone  - Technology Review - 0 views

  • Facebook encourages us to create a social network including everyone we know
  • Much of these communications is increasingly channeled through one device: the smart phone
  • "We're building your true social network from all of your services on the phone, and your [social] graph grows with every new message,"
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  • Aro is currently in a closed beta and is available only for Android phones (you can apply to join here), but an iPhone app is in the works
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    Pulling together a social media experience on your mobile phone. This might be work that could lead to educational platforms on the mobile device in the US.
Eric Kattwinkel

What Wikipedia Is Best at Explaining - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Because entries are anonymous and collaborative, no author is tempted to showboat and, in the pursuit of literary glory, swerve from the aim of clarity and utility.
  • At the strenuously collectivist Wikipedia, it seems, “ownership” of an article — what in legacy media is called “authorship” — is strictly forbidden. But it’s more than that: even doing jerky things that Wikipedia calls “ownership behavior” — subtle ways of acting proprietary about entries — is prohibited.
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    Timely article about ideas of ownership and authorship and collaboration on wikipedia. Mentions that you can type "WP: OWN" into Wikipedia to read its policy about "ownership" of articles. "The page is fascinating for anyone who has ever been part of a collaborative effort to create anything."
Doug Pietrzak

What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York | Magazine | Wired.com - 3 views

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    a beautiful data visualization of new yorker's complaints over time
Devon Dickau

New Jersey District Boosts Bandwidth for Classroom Instruction -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • Technology is extremely important to our school district because we realize the tremendous impact that it can have on improving education opportunities,
  • we can focus on making education the best it can be for students and teachers
Doug Pietrzak

Colleges blasted over teacher preparation; deans blast back. - chicagotribune.com - 0 views

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    a push to increase teacher quality by ranking quality of teacher prep programs
Garron Hillaire

The Situation - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

  • Google pulled all their ads on October 26th, due to TOS violations on the part of the wiki and forums — specifically "adult and mature content" on pages that carried Google Adsense ads. These ads provided far and away the majority of the site's operating budget.
  • Turn off anonymous editing in the wiki. This is so that we can tell Google, "See, we do have standards, and we can identify and take action against people who violate them." This has already been implemented.
  • Segregate "adult and mature content" behind some sort of barrier that you will have to explicitly agree to go through. This has been implemented
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  • Nofollow tags will be attached to outbound links on wiki pages. This is an invisible-to-users tag that tells the Ad Server "The following link goes somewhere that isn't us. Don't hold us responsible for their content."
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    TV Tropes is being very transparent about creating a moderation system for the content. This is in response to loosing advertising dollars from Google. It is interesting to see the outline for their model of moderating content. Some of these elements could be used in a web 2.0 environment for education
Margaret O'Connell

The $2 Interactive Whiteboard - 6 views

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    A reminder that more technology in the classroom is not always the answer.
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    Fabulous blog post! Great find!
Mohammad Hussain

The hole in the wall - 2 views

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    Here is a follow up on this topic of how children learn best when collaborating - this time in a formal setting - http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/student-centered_learning_in_the_digital_age/ These studies/examples push further the question around technology and if that can replace a teacher. Its perhaps really hard to answer that question with one answer for the various kinds of learning spaces.
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    Children can teach themselves; education in non-traditional way; child driven education.
Amanda Comperchio

100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media In the Classroom - 3 views

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    I thought this was useful because it includes a lot of ways to use Twitter for education.
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    Great, great article - thanks! (I finally got around to reading it).
Garron Hillaire

Zapping the Brain Improves Math Skills : Discovery News - 1 views

  • THE GIST A mild electrical current improves a person's ability to learn math skills. The effect lasts up to six months. The technique could help students learn other skills besides math as well.
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    This sounds like a disruptive innovation. Zap the brain!
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    whoa ...
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