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The Teacher Tap: Professional Development Resources for Educators (Lamb & Johnson) - 0 views

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    Written by Annette Lamb & Larry Johnson\nFeatures internet resources, pathfinders, webquests, teacher tools, examples of content rich websites, collaborative online projects,\nlibrary & classroom websites
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38 Infographic Explores Mobile Phone Evolution - Facts & Figures (History & Statistics)... - 0 views

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    Mobile technology has shown tremendous growth in recent years and now rivals other outlets as one of the most powerful forms of mass media. While mobile phones will not be the death of print, television or the Internet, it has proven to be a huge and unique new platform for delivering content. ====== Fantastic resource about mobile phones and telephone technology.
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Study Finds the Internet Makes Youth More Engaged Citizens - 0 views

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    Arguably, the upheaval, activism and revolutions in of the last two months may serve to counter what has been a longstanding stereotype: youth are largely apolitical. Moreover, those that do participate in politics and activism online do so in shallow ways, the so-called "slacktivism." But recent findings from a longitudinal study of high school-age students challenges these notions, suggesting that youth who pursue their interests online are more likely to be engaged in civic issues.
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The role of Information Technology in defeating the Arab regimes: Facebook 2-0 Arab Pre... - 0 views

  • Opinions might be conflicted, some people can see that all revolutions through the history succeeded with the absent of technology, and if people stayed in front of PC screens, who would participate in the demonstrations.
  • On the other side, many opinions say that the online social networks provided e-communities helped to promote the anti governing systems ideas, and to call and organize the demonstrations, and to disseminate news from the heart of the events. Regardless of this conflict, we have a striking phenomenon and should be monitored.
  • we can define three main roles of Facebook and Twitter in January demonstrations; Call for demonstrations, dissemination of demonstrations news, and increasing information circulation
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    This article discusses how internet played main role in the January revolution of Egyptian, and how RAND foundation report expected what happened, this report was published in 2003 and discussed the relation between technology and non-democratic regimes in Middle East and North Africa.
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James Surowiecki: When social media became news | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news -- and preserved moving personal stories from the tragedy.
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