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izz aty

Learning Page :: Professionally produced lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more! - 1 views

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shared by izz aty on 08 Dec 10 - Cached
  • izz aty on 08 Dec 10
     
    LearningPage offers resources that you can incorporate into your lesson plans. Through our monthly resource calendar, you can download free materials from the family of Learning A-Z sites, all tied to important and interesting dates on the calendar.
terry freedman

Beyond Gutenberg « Dreams of Education - 9 views

dreamsofeducation.wordpress.com/...beyond-gutenberg

Kelly Tenkely Gutenberg technology

shared by terry freedman on 05 Aug 10 - Cached
Mari Yamauchi liked it
  • terry freedman on 05 Aug 10
     
    Interesting and thought-provoking (if rather long) post about technology, its place, and the sort of concerns it raises. I don't agree with everything in the article, but will need to cogitate on my response to it. Read it, and decide for yourself.
mbarek Akaddar

Googlios - 13 views

sites.google.com/...home

shared by mbarek Akaddar on 06 Dec 10 - Cached
  • mbarek Akaddar on 06 Dec 10
     
    Welcome to "Googlios" where free Google tools meet ePortfolios.   This site is intended to be a collection of resources for those interested in using ePortfolios in Education. 
mbarek Akaddar

Bnter - 4 views

bnter.com

organize information bnter

shared by mbarek Akaddar on 09 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • mbarek Akaddar on 09 Dec 10
     
    Conversations tell stories. Share the interesting ones.
Paul Beaufait

Listen & Read Grade 1: Animals & Food | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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graded nonfiction online readers reading resources scholastic

shared by Paul Beaufait on 08 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 08 Sep 08
     
    "short, high-interest, nonfiction stories from Scholastic News boost early reading skills and support differentiated reading and ELL students" (2008.09.08)
  • Paul Beaufait on 08 Sep 08
     
    Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for pointing out this site: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/09/07/listen-read/ (2008.09.07)
John Evans

Businesses Can't Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0's Impact Across Industries - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

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business readwriteweb tools web2.0

shared by John Evans on 08 Sep 08 - Cached
  • John Evans on 08 Sep 08
     
    Here at ReadWriteWeb, we deliver news about Web 2.0's impact on business in addition to news about web technologies in general. Depending on your area of interest, you can find a lot of great information on this subject in our archives. Or simply bookmark this post for easy reference.
Holly Dilatush

Teacher Magazine: The End of School as We Know It? - 0 views

www.teachermagazine.org/...42tln_norton.h19.html

learningwithcomputers reread

shared by Holly Dilatush on 24 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Holly Dilatush on 24 Aug 08
     
    very interesting -- anyone care to highlight and comment?
Holly Dilatush

What's My Pass? » The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time - 0 views

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passwords security

shared by Holly Dilatush on 15 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Holly Dilatush on 15 Jan 09
     
    interesting, surprising (many of them), evidence of cultural contexts
Mary Hillis

High Techpectations: A Few People to Follow in Twitter - 0 views

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techpectations twitter

shared by Mary Hillis on 22 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Mary Hillis on 22 Jun 08
     
    A list of people you might be interested in following on Twitter if you are in the education sector.
Carla Arena

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - 0 views

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article brain google learningwithcomputers magazine neurology reading technology theatlantic

shared by Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08 - Cached
  • hyperlinks don’t merely point to related works; they propel you toward them.)
  • They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
  • “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins
  • ...15 more annotations...
  • We are not only what we read
  • We are how we read
  • Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace
  • Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      So, how can we still use "power browsing" and teach our students to interpret, analyze, think.
  • The human brain is almost infinitely malleable. People used to think that our mental meshwork, the dense connections formed among the 100 billion or so neurons inside our skulls, was largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood. But brain researchers have discovered that that’s not the case
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      That's what a student of mine, who is a neurologist, calls neuroplasticity.
  • Still, their easy assumption that we’d all “be better off” if our brains were supplemented, or even replaced, by an artificial intelligence is unsettling. It suggests a belief that intelligence is the output of a mechanical process, a series of discrete steps that can be isolated, measured, and optimized. In Google’s world, the world we enter when we go online, there’s little place for the fuzziness of contemplation. Ambiguity is not an opening for insight but a bug to be fixed. The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      Scary...
  • It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      more hyperlinking, more possibilites for ads, more commercial value to others...
  • The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
  • If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with “content,” we will sacrifice something important not only in our selves but in our culture.
  • I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available.”
  • As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.”
  • Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
     
    I bought the Atlantic just because of this article and just loved it. It has an interesting analysis of what is happening to our reading, questions what might be happening to our brains, and it inquires on the future of our relationship with technology. Are we just going to become "pancake people"? Would love to hear what you think.
Learning with Computers group

English Teachers everywhere - 0 views

etseverywhere.com

activities exercises listening podcasts poems songs

shared by Learning with Computers group on 10 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Learning with Computers group on 10 Jun 08
     
    An interesting blog with a lot of resources. It includes songs, poems, literature,bios. And you're invited to add your podcasts
IN PI

Wow! 10 Awesome Interactive Websites | The Best Article Every day - 0 views

www.bspcn.com/...0-awesome-interactive-websites

games music radio web2.0tools

shared by IN PI on 23 Jun 08 - Cached
  • IN PI on 23 Jun 08
     
    Some websites are strange, some are very interesting...make your choice.
Learning with Computers group

What's something like? - 0 views

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grammar

shared by Learning with Computers group on 10 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Learning with Computers group on 10 Jun 08
     
    Carla and Tery using questions with like. A non grammatical approach to grammar??. Funny and interesting
Learning with Computers group

Adult Learning activities - 0 views

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listening videos

shared by Learning with Computers group on 10 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Learning with Computers group on 10 Jun 08
     
    Listening and videos about several topics of interest for adult people
Vernon Fowler

CogDogRoo - StoryTools - 2 views

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web2.0 storytelling multimedia tools resources free narrative

shared by Vernon Fowler on 26 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 26 Aug 08
     
    Gleaned from Carla Arena's collection
  • Paul Beaufait on 26 Aug 08
     
    Alan Levine's list of 50 tools you can use to tell stories, rounded out with examples from him and others.
  • Vernon Fowler on 19 Jan 11
     
    "The Fifty Tools Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. Again, the mission is not to review or try every single one (that would be madness, I know), but pick one that sounds interesting and see if you can produce something. I have used each tool to produce an example of the original Dominoe story, plus links are provided, where available, to examples by other people. Please share your own examples or thoughts in the discussion area of this wiki. But before rummaging around the toolbox, have you done your prep work? Do you have your story idea or presentation concept outlined, developed? This should be on paper or in a document file or scribbled on the back of a napkin, but do not rely on making it up as you go! If not, go back 2 spaces and do this now. Next- do you have your media assets available, your images, video clips, audio files-- if not go find your media now."
anonymous

On The Media: The Internet - 0 views

www.onthemedia.org/...1

audio education english google internet listening media podcasts resources tools

shared by anonymous on 29 Jul 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 29 Jul 08
     
    Very interesting live materials to listen and adjust ear to listen. There is a tapescript and audio. One can download it to the computer.
Carla Arena

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata - 0 views

www.adammathes.com/...folksonomies.html

classification collaboration flickr folksonomies folksonomy metadata tagging tags

shared by Carla Arena on 27 Jun 08 - Cached
  • A user on Flickr, Andrew Lowosky, began posting pictures of doorbells in Florence, along with a brief piece of fiction about the doorbell in the description of the photograph. He dubbed this combination of photograph and short story “flicktion,” and tagged it as such. (Lowosky, 2004.) Some other users have been tagging photographs with “flicktion” and writing short fiction to accompany it
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 27 Jun 08
       
      Interesting use of tags.
  • the most used tags are more likely to be used by other users since they are more likely to be seen
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 27 Jun 08
       
      That's our idea, isn't it? Providing more tags that will be useful for individual use and for the group.
  • A folksonomy represents simultaneously some of the best and worst in the organization of information. Its uncontrolled nature is fundamentally chaotic, suffers from problems of imprecision and ambiguity that well developed controlled vocabularies and name authorities effectively ameliorate. Conversely, systems employing free-‍form tagging that are encouraging users to organize information in their own ways are supremely responsive to user needs and vocabularies, and involve the users of information actively in the organizational system. Overall, transforming the creation of explicit metadata for resources from an isolated, professional activity into a shared, communicative activity by users is an important development that should be explored and considered for future systems development.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 27 Jun 08
       
      imprecision and ambiguity x free-form tagging - user-generated communicative activity. We should see how our community semantic building evolves.
  • Paul Beaufait on 27 Jun 08
     
    reference from Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags?
  • Carla Arena on 27 Jun 08
     
    Thanks, Paul, for bookmarking this site. Interesting reading that points out to what we've been experiencing, the strengths and weakenesses of folksonomies. If we learn about them, we can try to minimize a bit ambiguity problems in tagging, though they will always be there!
Learning with Computers group

VOA news - 0 views

www.voanews.com/index.cfm

activities listening news podcast story

shared by Learning with Computers group on 10 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Learning with Computers group on 10 Jun 08
     
    It has good news stories for listening with accompanying language learning apparatus. VOA also has many articles of general interest in "Special English, " which is slower and with a limited vocabulary and grammar, so it is very good for beginni
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