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Starbucks Coffee Company - 1 views

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EBSCOhost: Footprints in the Digital Age - 0 views

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  • A recent National School Boards Association survey (2007) announced that upward of 80 percent of young people who are online are networking and that 70 percent of them are regularly discussing education-related topics.
  • these shifts demand that we move our concept of learning from a "supply-push" model of "building up an inventory of knowledge in the students' heads" (p. 30) to a "demand-pull" approach that requires students to own their learning processes and pursue learning, based on their needs of the moment, in social and possibly global communities of practice.
  • Last December, in an effort to honor the memory of her grandfather who had died the year before, Laura decided to do one good deed each day in the run-up to Christmas. She decided, with her mother's approval, to share her work with the world.Laura's blog, "Twenty-Five Days to Make a Difference" (http://twentyfivedays.wordpress.com), quickly caught the eye of some other philanthropic bloggers.
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  • Laura is not just publishing, and others are not just reading. Now when she wants ideas for charities to work for as her project enters its 11th month, Laura says, "I ask my readers" (Richardson, 2008).
  • In addition, under her mother's guidance and care, Laura is learning online network literacies firsthand. As Stanford researcher Danah Boyd (2007) points out, we are discovering the potentials and pitfalls of this new public space. What we say today in our blogs and videos will persist long into the future and not simply end up in the paper recycling bin when we clean out our desks at the end of the year. What we say is copyable; others can take it, use it, or change it with ease, making our ability to edit content and comprehend the ethical use of the content we read even more crucial. The things we create are searchable to an extent never before imagined and will be viewed by all sorts of audiences, both intended and unintended.
  • These new realities demand that we prepare students to be educated, sophisticated owners of online spaces. Although Laura is able to connect, does she understand, as researcher Stephen Downes (2005) suggests, that her network must be diverse, that she must actively seek dissenting voices who might push her thinking in ways that the "echo chamber" of kindred thinkers might not? Is she doing the work of finding new voices to include in the conversation? Is she able to make astute decisions about the people with whom she interacts, keeping herself safe from those who might mean her harm? Is she learning balance in her use of technology, or is she falling into the common pattern of spending hours at the keyboard, losing herself in the network? This 10-year-old probably still needs to learn many of these things, and she needs the guidance of teachers and adults who know them in their own practice.
  • More than ever before, students have the potential to own their own learning — and we have to help them seize that potential. We must help them learn how to identify their passions; build connections to others who share those passions; and communicate, collaborate, and work collectively with these networks.
  • Will Richardson is the author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Tools for Classrooms (Corwin Press, 2006) and cofounder of Powerful Learning Practice (http://plpnetwork.com). He blogs at http://weblogg-ed.com and can be reached at weblogged@gmail.com.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 14 May 10
     
    This item is about safeguarding your identity and your privacy as you use Web 2.0 tools. Review it carefully.
J.Randolph Radney

Students learn to be better 'digital citizens' - USATODAY.com - www.usatoday.com - Read... - 0 views

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 14 Feb 12
     
    Here (hopefully) is the screenshot.
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Students learn to be better 'digital citizens' - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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    • J.Randolph Radney
      J.Randolph Radney on 14 Feb 12
       
      The original design of this website can be improved by using "Readability", an online web display tool from Arc-90. I will attempt a screenshot of implementation on this page as a demonstration.
  • As more students spend large chunks of study and leisure time online, schools across the USA are adding coursework focused on privacy, cyberbullying and electronic plagiarism.
    • J.Randolph Radney
      J.Randolph Radney on 14 Feb 12
       
      Schools are finding that training is superior to blocking as a strategy to protect students.
romie_mui

Reading in a Whole New Way | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine - 5 views

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    • Elias Rumley
      Elias Rumley on 17 Nov 10
       
      Right away, skimming the page, I feel that there needs to be more pictures. E-readers struggle to keep their attention to text for an extended period, so pictures will help break the monotony.
    • J.Randolph Radney
      J.Randolph Radney on 17 Nov 10
       
      This is a great idea, Elias. Do you have some particular pictures in mind?
    • Jordan Turgeon
      Jordan Turgeon on 17 Nov 10
       
      The picture provides a good visual that precedes the actual topic
  • American prosperity and liberty grew out of a culture of reading and writing.
    • Elias Rumley
      Elias Rumley on 17 Nov 10
       
      Very strong statement. Perhaps a tad over-reaching, but it is effective in demonstrating the writer's belief that literacy is key in culture.
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  • As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change?
    • Jordan Turgeon
      Jordan Turgeon on 17 Nov 10
       
      Clearly states the general topic in a simple and easily understood manner right away
  • Books were good at developing a contemplative mind. Screens encourage more utilitarian thinking. A new idea or unfamiliar fact will provoke a reflex to do something: to research the term, to query your screen “friends” for their opinions, to find alternative views, to create a bookmark, to interact with or tweet the thing rather than simply contemplate it.
    • farouk hamood
      farouk hamood on 17 Nov 10
       
      interesting
  • In ancient times, authors often dictated their books. Dictation sounded like an uninterrupted series of letters, so scribes wrote down the letters in one long continuous string, justastheyoccurinspeech. Text was written without spaces between words until the 11th century. This continuous script made books hard to read, so only a few people were accomplished at reading them aloud to others. Being able to read silently to yourself was considered an amazing talent. Writing was an even rarer skill. In 15th-century Europe only one in 20 adult males could write.
    • Jordan Turgeon
      Jordan Turgeon on 17 Nov 10
       
      An interesting summary of reading and writing during the ealier times
  • The first screens that overtook culture, several decades ago—the big, fat, warm tubes of television—reduced the time we spent reading to such an extent that it seemed as if reading and writing were over. Educators, intellectuals, politicians and parents worried deeply that the TV generation would be unable to write.
    • Elias Rumley
      Elias Rumley on 17 Nov 10
       
      It's interesting to see that, at one point, professionals believed writing would become a rare skill and the rarity of literacy would regress back to ancient times.
  • Pixels encourage numeracy and produce rivers of numbers flowing into databases.
    • Elias Rumley
      Elias Rumley on 17 Nov 10
       
      Very strong imagery, that effectively contrasts the pixels (which are small and humble) produce a river (usually powerful and comparitively large) of information.
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  • But screens engage our bodies. Touch screens respond to the ceaseless caress of our fingers.
  • The most physically active we may get while reading a book is to flip the pages or dog-ear a corner.
    • romie_mui
      romie_mui on 17 Nov 10
       
      interesting point
  •  The most physically active we may get while reading a book is to flip the pages or dog-ear a corner.  But screens engage our bodies. Touch screens respond to the ceaseless caress of our fingers.
  • or dog
  • pages or dog -ear a corner.   But screens
Sultan Lalani

Apple's app store hits the 10 billion downloads mark | Markets | Headline News | Canadi... - 0 views

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  • The company has sold tens of millions of iPhones since the device launched in 2007 and continues to expand the use of apps with its iPad tablet computer. Its app store has drawn an army of software developers hoping to piggyback on the company's success. The store now boasts more than 350,000 different programs for the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Apple said it would give the 10 billionth person to download an app a $10,000 gift card to its iTunes store, which now offers movies and TV shows along with digital music files. The prize went to Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, in the U.K. She downloaded a free game app called Paper Glider.
    • Sultan Lalani
      Sultan Lalani on 24 Jan 11
       
      You cansee how Apple is improving. Not only Apple but technology over the world itself moves every second.
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