Creating e-Learning for Everybody Using Multiple Intelligences | Saffron Interactive - 0 views
The Committed Sardine - blog - 0 views
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today’s students have the ability to start ripples in society, and a good education leader will know how to give students the skills they need to start those ripples.
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kids are really doing is jumping between different tasks and not giving each task full attention.
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continual partial attention
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The problem with 'sext' ed - 1 views
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Sexting is just the silent canary in the coal mine. It's the sign, not the cause, of the dangerously cavalier attitudes toward sex and sexuality that have been building up in teen culture for years now. The only surefire cure is a full-blown evacuation -- a complete retreat from the mainstream movies, videos, video games and songs of the day that sexualize kids before they've even reached puberty (or, in some cases, potty training).
The Teenage Brain - 1 views
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he greatest changes to the parts of the brain that are responsible for impulse-control, judgement, decision-making, planning, organization and involved in other functions like emotion, occur in adolescence. This area of the brain (prefrontal cortex) does not reach full maturity until around age 25!
Video Games, Fiction and Interactive Storytelling | Kapp Notes - 0 views
6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 0 views
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notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.
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Learning analytics
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Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.
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Apple iPad 2 family Review - PCWorld - 0 views
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competitors will now face a new iteration of the iPad, one that's faster, smaller, and lighter than the model introduced a year ago--all while retaining the $499 entry price that has proven all but impossible for Apple's competitors to match.
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company is offering 18 different versions of the iPad 2
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original iPad came in six different variations
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Using Images as a Powerful Gateway To Learning - iPads in Education - 0 views
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Most of us grew up in an age where knowledge and information were primarily conveyed in textual format. Think of the encyclopedias we used. Photos were used but largely as an enhancement to articles that were text-based. Worse, the high cost of full color printing meant that the images that were used were usually in black and white.
Demibooks Composer | iPad Curriculum - 0 views
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This app lets you create books that take full advantage of the iPad’s capabilities. Finished stories can be shared to a Dropbox account, iTunes or published as an actual book app that can be purchased in the App store. Seriously, how cool is that?
The Single Best Idea for Reforming K-12 Education - Forbes - 1 views
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“single best idea for reforming K-12 education”.
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Root cause: factory model of management
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The goal needs to shift from one of making a system that teaches children a curriculum more efficiently to one of making the system more effective by inspiring lifelong learning in students, so that they are able to have full and productive lives in a rapidly shifting economy.
'Most Likely To Succeed': Schools Should Teach Kids To Think, Not Memorize - 0 views
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Boasting a 98 percent college-matriculation rate among graduates, High Tech High warrants a closer look, and Whiteley's documentary devotes a full year to examining the project
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"The only surviving skills that will save young kids are creative and innovative. As the current school system is now, for 12 of 16 years, you're not in an environment that brings that out of them."
Full STEAM Ahead: Why Arts Are Essential in a STEM Education | Edutopia - 0 views
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True STE(A)M education means that students are creating, applying, and incorporating mathematics and at least one of the other content areas into their work. Not every project is going to include every letter in STEM, but ideally, they should allow for the integration of at least two of them
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