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doris molero

On The Media: Transcript of "The Future Brain" (April 3, 2009) - 0 views

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podcast future brain raykurweil

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    The Future Brain April 03, 2009 Technology is such an integral part of our lives but will it soon be part of our bodies as well? Computer scientist and inventor Ray Kurzweil thinks so. He predicts that by 2045 we will have merged with our technology and that we'll be smarter, healthier and... well...immortal. Sounds implausible? Kurzweil explains that that's what people often say about his predictions until they come true.
anonymous

The Future of Tablets in Education: Potential Vs. Reality of Consuming Media | MindShift - 0 views

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iPad Tech-Coach TIC

shared by anonymous on 12 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • deep integration of new learning technologies into classrooms requires substantially rethinking pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, and teacher practice (someday
  • teachers need to start somewhere (Monday
  • Both pathways are important to teacher growth and meaningful, sustained changes in teaching and learning.
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  • four dimensions
  • consumption of media to curation, creation, and connection
  • flexible, mobile device for creating multimedia performances of understanding
  • foster critical reading of text, images, audio, and film
  • read in communal settings, leveraging social technologies to allow users to share notes, highlighted passages, questions, and ideas.
  • Focused and connected modes of reading are both vital, but they require different habits, disciplines, and settings, and they serve different ends.
  • focused reading mode, we hope young people will engage deeply with a text.
  • imagine how differentiated reading experiences in classes could be more social, how literature circles or book groups could collaborate in reading at home and then discuss their insights together in class.
  • it will be practices rather than apps that help students develop the capacity to read deeply.
  • learn both habits of mind for disciplined reading and how to control their technology environment to minimize distraction.
  • recognize how to strike the right balance between exploring a networked of hyperlinked texts while not wandering away from the core purpose of one’s reading
  • naming “attention” as a skill: having students reflect metacognitively on their attention strategies and weaknesses and think about how best to exercise their own attention muscles.
  • iOS 6 has a Guided
  • shutting down all apps before reading can be a kind of ritual of concentration, like clearing way books and papers from a desk before sitting down to read
  • develop new habits to make the most of our new tools. If our tools can distract us, then we need to learn more about focusing attention and managing distraction.
  • We ask them to quickly synthesize multiple
  • anonymous on 12 Aug 13
     
    Consumption
jodi tompkins

http://www.earthwatch.org/ - 0 views

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science environment volunteering

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    Earthwatch Institute is an international non-profit organization that brings science to life for people concerned about the Earth's future. Founded in 1971, Earthwatch supports scientific field research by offering volunteers the opportunity to join research teams around the world.
Amanda Kenuam

Future Ideas from Students for Assistive Technology - 0 views

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shared by Amanda Kenuam on 17 May 10 - Cached
  • Amanda Kenuam on 17 May 10
     
    "students, Special Needs, education, Assistive Tech, assistive technology, ideas, lesson, Steven Hawking, awareness"
Child Therapy

Coaching Both Parent And Child - 1 views

I want to see my kid happy and grow to his full potential. That is why, when I see him having trouble opening up to me or to other people, I feel bad as a parent. I feel that I am not doing a good ...

started by Child Therapy on 28 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
Paul Beaufait

What Is The Future Of The EFL / ESL Textbook? | English Attack! Entertainment English Blog - 0 views

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ELT textbooks transitions digital paper-pased education technology teachers edtech

shared by Paul Beaufait on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 01 Sep 10
     
    "...[D]espite the widespread declared enthusiasm for "edtech" and all its related cyber-baubles, teachers still - and will continue to - rely on a quality ELT textbook as the pedagogical "anchor" of their teaching, and schools are also probably more comfortable having such an expert-authored curriculum than being without" (So Is the Clock Ticking? ¶2).
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