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Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops - New York Times - 0 views

  • did not fit into lesson plans
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      Hear is the real issue.  An old educational model with new tools is a bad fit
  • gave away 30 new laptops to another school in 2005 after a class that was trying them out switched to new teachers who simply did not do as much with the technology
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Welcome to NBC Learn - 1 views

  • NBC News Archives on Demand (K-12 and Higher Ed) unleashes the power of the NBC News archives and makes thousands of video clips available to teachers, students, schools, colleges and universities
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    Tools for teachers, Inspiration for students
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MHz Networks - 0 views

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    Alternative views of news from the world
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Google Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum - Know your web - Good to Know - Google - 0 views

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    New lesson source for digital citizenship fromGoogle
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AddThis - Features - 0 views

shared by Rob Reynolds on 28 Aug 09 - Cached
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    When you install AddThis on your site, your users have access to the most popular social networks and bookmarking destinations like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and many more. New services are being added all the time, from international sites to helpful tools like translation and printing.
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Aardvark - 0 views

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    Tap the knowledge of people in your network.  A new Google Search tool.
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YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. - 1 views

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    pretty cool new slide show maker.
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Better control in Google Sites with page-level permissions - Docs Blog - 0 views

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    New update to allow page level access control to your google sites.  
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OER Commons - 1 views

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    "In a brave new world of learning, OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know. Browse and search OER Commons to find curriculum, and tag, rate, and review it for others."
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The Problem with Lecturing - 0 views

  • "I think what many students in their introductory physics courses do is they retain their intuitive notions," says Mazur. They memorize what the professor tells them and "parrot it back" on the exam but they never really connect what they are learning to what they already think about how the physical world works.
    • Rob Reynolds
       
      So in this model, there is really no learning going on, just memorization for a test, and if you have a good memory, a bit longer.  No new understanding, i.e. learning, is happening.
  • "I am what I am not because of my education but probably in spite of it," he says.
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Constructing a Textbook | Remote Access - 0 views

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    Great post giving resources and ideas for RSS feeds with students
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Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Blog - Syncing Multiple iPods - 1 views

  • dealing with multiple iPods in a classroom there are some things you should know
  • For example, choose Sync All Songs and Playlists if the iPod have enough storage space. Otherwise, each time you make a new playlist, you'll have to update each iPod's settings.
  • It's just easier to have each iPod sync to one computer

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started by Rob Reynolds on 22 Oct 10 no follow-up yet
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Virtual Cell Animation Collection - 0 views

  • This collection has been developed to introduce students to new concepts. By walking through the still images and movie included for each topic, viewers are in control of choosing the learning style that best fits their needs.
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Official Google Docs Blog: Spotlight on Developers: Gadgets to Visualize Data in New Ways - 1 views

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    Using Gdocs gadgets to visualize data
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