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EarthViewer for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 0 views

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    What did Earth's continents and oceans look like 250 million years ago, or 1 billion years ago for that matter? Can we say anything about Earth's climate as far back as our planet's origin? 
Phil Taylor

70 Billion Pixels Budapest - The largest photo on Earth - created by 360world.eu - 0 views

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    Largest digital picture
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Inside Islam - What a Billion Muslims Really Think - Summify - 0 views

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    Good for high school social studies teachers.
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Information Overload? Here Are 10 Ways You - And Your Students - Can Deal With It - Inf... - 0 views

  • read the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it would take you 57,000 years to reach the end. You could bind the pages in a 10,000-foot-tall book weighing 1.2 billion pounds.
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Will Richardson: My Kids are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too - 1 views

  • they're not "designing and sharing information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes." Nor are they "building relationships with others to solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally." And as far as "managing, analyzing and synthesizing multiple streams of information?"
  • National Council of Teachers of English feels a "literate person" should be able to do right now
  • If we don't talk about how learning is changing first, the schools we create will continue to be places of "tinkering on the edges" instead of truly changed spaces.
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  • the reality for my kids and yours is that they are going to be immersed in these spaces, potentially connecting and learning with two billion strangers, required to make sense of huge flows of information and creating and sharing their knowledge with the world. That is their reality; it wasn't ours.
Phil Taylor

Social media users grapple with information overload - USATODAY.com - 0 views

  • People are drowning in a deluge of data. Corporate users received about 110 messages a day in 2010, says market researcher Radicati Group. There are 110 million tweets a day, Twitter says. Researcher Basex has pegged business productivity losses due to the "cost of unnecessary interruptions" at $650 billion in 2007.
Phil Taylor

Infographic: A Look At The Size And Shape Of The Geosocial Universe In 2011| The Commit... - 0 views

  • Thomas’ infographic shows the current size of major social networks as well as the other well-known online services we use on a daily basis relative to their peers.
  • Mobile: 5.3 billion mobile devices are used worldwide — that’s 77 percent of the world’s population
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