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Glenda Guerrero

A Custom Fit - 1 views

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    Date Issued: March 2010. An article from THE (Technological Horizons In Education) Journal written by Rama Ramaswami - a freelance business and technical writer based in New York City. The article focuses on the movement toward open educational resources where teachers have more choices to customize the curriculum, mixing and matching educational materials to create content that is tailor-made for the needs of their students, immediately. Open content refers to material published under a license that allows any user to edit, adapt, remix, and distribute it. It is distinct from free content, which is in the public domain and has no significant legal restrictions on its modification. The article appears to be fact gathering with an indifferent opinion.
Alexander Posner

Digital Literacy Needed for Canada's Youth - 0 views

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    This article highlights the lack of media literacy education in Canada and the need for it. It recaps Canada's 4th annual Media Literacy Week, recounting the calls for improved economic education in this area. In an age where digital media is all around us, this makes a lot of sense for the youth population of Canada who commonly use and create the most digital media. Canadian Teacher's Fund President Mary-Lou Donnelly put it best by saying, "Media and digital literacy are life skills that should be included in the curriculum along with traditional literacy and numeracy skills. Students are not simply users but creators of media. As teachers, we must nurture this creativity while helping them to be engaged and responsible e-citizens." Media literacy education is definitely an important initiative and the fact that Canada is moving to integrate it into its education system is a good sign.
Adam Kenner

Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge | Video on TED.com - 1 views

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    "Kiran Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids life's most valuable lesson: "I can." Watch her students take local issues into their own hands, lead other young people, even educate their parents."
Adam Kenner

Khan Academy - 0 views

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    The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.
Adam Kenner

CK-12.org - 0 views

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    CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
andrew schwartz

What Is Media Literacy? - 0 views

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    This article talks about how it is essential for young children to be educated in Media Literacy so they can thoroughly evaluate and analyze bias' in this technological age that these kids become increasingly immersed in as the grow older. The author of this article suggests that the education of Media Literacy should be universally implemented into school's curriculums to train these children to become critical thinkers in the Media World
india art n design

A world of books under the sky! - 0 views

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    Designed as an ideal playscape for kids, the "Book worm" is an interactive installation at CSMVS #Mumbai by Architect/Artist Nuru Karim in collaboration with Priyashri Art Gallery to primarily draw one's attention to the significance of education in a literacy-starved society.
Maia S-H

The American Anti-Aging Spotlight - 0 views

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    "Please note that the American Anti-Aging Spolight is a paid endorsement for Caracol Cream. All information provided is for educational purposes only." (To promote their product, Caracol Cream creates a medical-sounding site--tricky advertising!)
Maia S-H

The Girl Effect - Home - 0 views

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    Really well done video just with words encouraging education of women in developing countries.
Adam Kenner

Student Suspended for Facebook Page Can Sue - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    "A South Florida teenager who sued her former principal after she was suspended for creating a Facebook page criticizing a teacher can proceed with her lawsuit, a federal judge has ruled."
anastasiya moroz

White House Begins Campaign to Promote Science and Math Education - 0 views

This article is about the White House's plans to promote education in science, math, and engineering through televised programs such as Sesame Street, and shows on the Discovery Channel. This influ...

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Adam Kenner

In Heartland Institute Leak, a Plan to Discredit Climate Teaching - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Leaked documents suggest that an organization known for attacking climate science is planning a new push to undermine the teaching of global warming in public schools, the latest indication that climate change is becoming a part of the nation's culture wars.
Diana Rheinstein

Draft Copyright Enforcement Treaty Stirs Censorship Debate - 0 views

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    Washington: Oct 21, 2010.This article, written by Eliza Krigman published in the Congress Daily/P.M. Krigman is an education reporter for top political and public policy magazines she is based in the UK. This article discusses how currently rights holders of companies and many government leaders are determined to crack down on Internet piracy through stricter enforcement. Public-interest groups argue that such rules can jeopardize free speech, particularly in countries without the types of safeguard measures found in American law and are angry. The possibility of using copyright law to justify censorship drew attention recently when the New York Times exposed how the Russian government used Microsoft to suppress political dissidents. This issue is very relevant to everyone whether you are a right's holder or user or a copyrighted products. LINK:http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/10/ip-enforcement-policies-stir-c.php
Jack D

Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in Digital Age - 0 views

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    Many students in this new generation are plagiarizing other people's work for academic gain. Some college professors hypothesize that this is due t the laziness of students nowadays. Others believe it is because students were never taught about plagiarizing in middle school and highschool, so they do not understand that what they are doing is bad. However, regardless the case, internet is leading to an easy accessibility of past works, which makes it further difficult to stop plagiarizing.
Adam Kenner

Digital Media and Learning Competition - 0 views

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    The 2008 Digital Media and Learning Competition theme is Participatory Learning. Participatory Learning includes the many ways that learners (of any age) use new technologies to participate in virtual communities where they share ideas, comment upon one another's projects, and plan, design, advance, implement, or simply discuss their goals and ideas together.
Maia S-H

Investopedia.com - Your Source For Investing Education - 0 views

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    A stock world with mock investements, stock new and ideas and more!
Adam Kenner

Film Lab Gives a B C's a New D - Digital Literacy - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    In an increasingly visual world, and one in which anyone with a laptop, Web connection and camera can be a producer of media, children (and the occasional prisoner) need to understand how what they see and watch is created as much as plain old reading, writing and arithmetic.
Adam Kenner

SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

  • everything and everyone in the world casts an 'information shadow', an aura of data
  • credit card companies can predict with 98% accuracy, two years in advance, when a couple is going to divorce, based on spending patterns alone
  • His take on the education system, for example, is that it is a badly designed game: students compete for good grades, but lose motivation when they fail. A good game, by contrast, never makes you feel like you've failed: you just progress more slowly. Instead of giving bad students an F, why not start all pupils with zero points and have them strive for the high score?
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  • "The end state of connectivity," he argues, "is that it provides citizens with increased power."
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    This is the fundamental obstacle to understanding where technology culture is heading: increasingly, it's about everything.
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    This is the fundamental obstacle to understanding where technology culture is heading: increasingly, it's about everything.
Maia S-H

Texting May Be Taking a Toll on Teenagers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Texting May Be Taking a Toll
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