It Takes All Kinds: Teachers | Ideas and Thoughts - 0 views
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We love these teachers and but the message can often be interpreted that these tools are easy and you too can be a master teacher and technology ninja by joining twitter and starting a blog. It ain't that easy, but that sometimes gets lost in the excitement a reimagined classroom.
Are iPads, Smartphones, and the Mobile Web Rewiring the Way We Think?| The Committed Sa... - 0 views
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e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says.
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"It's indisputable that the Internet has made us smarter.... The range of things you can explore in a day is just fantastic compared to 20 years ago," says David Weinberger, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. "There's no question that we feel the Internet has made us better researchers, better thinkers, better writers."
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Books "are not the shape of knowledge," he says. "They're a limitation on knowledge." The idea of a single author presenting her ideas "was born of the limitations of paper publishing. It's not necessarily the only way or the best way to think and to write."
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The New York Times Kind of Misinterprets a Study About Tests and Learning - Education -... - 0 views
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But, before the multiple choice, standardized testing crowd starts thumping their chests, it's important to note the kind of test the researchers administered. After reading the passage, students "wrote what they remembered in a free-form essay for 10 minutes. Then they reread the passage and took another retrieval practice test."
A Lesson In Kindness Through Genius Hour | The road traveled - 1 views
What Kind Of Student Should School Produce? - - 0 views
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‘What kind of adult do we hope the child becomes?’, then work backward from that.
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Let’s not ask what the child can do, but tends to do. Let’s make sure the student can read and write–and wants to. Let’s see that the student can think critically–then does.
- From the Principal's Office: 3 Steps to Leveraging the Power of Technology to Disrupt... - 0 views
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as 21st century school leaders, need to become leaders of digital disruption to fundamentally change how we do school.
Broadband, Social Networks, and Mobility Have Spawned a New Kind of Learner -- THE Journal - 2 views
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the near ubiquity of mobile computing is producing a fundamentally new kind of learner, one that is self-directed, better equipped to capture information, more reliant on feedback from peers, more inclined to collaborate, and more oriented toward being their own "nodes of production."
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"We've all got audiences now on Twitter and Facebook," Rainie said. "Everybody can be a publisher and broadcaster; students in particular are taking advantage of tha
Online bullying: Still way less common than in real life | Safe and Secure - CNET News - 0 views
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Pew Internet & American Life Project for the Family Online Safety Institute and Cable in the Classroom--concluded that "[m]ost American teens who use social media say that in their experience, people their age are mostly kind to one another on social network sites." Nearly seven in ten (69 percent) of teens said that peers are mostly kind while 20 percent said peers are mostly unkind with 11 percent saying, "it depends."
Twitter + YouTube+ Google+ = A New Kind Of PD - 0 views
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Backward Design: The Right Kind of Work | Reading By Example - 0 views
7 kinds of social media posts educators and schools can use now | Ditch That Textbook - 1 views
When to Buy Your Child a Cellphone - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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at what age should you buy your child a cellphone? And when you do buy that first phone, what kind should it be?
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There is no age that suits all children, developmental psychologists and child safety experts say.
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buying any kind of phone with Web access essentially allows their children unsupervised access to content and tools, like social networking and videos, that they may forbid on the home computer
Educational Leadership:Learning in the Digital Age:The New WWW: Whatever, Whenever, Whe... - 0 views
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counteract the New WWW's potentially harmful impact on youth, educators must use technology to create learning experiences that are real, rich, and relevant.
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Next will come 4G, in which data rates are expected to be 100 times faster than those in this first 3G wave. As the delivery platform of broadband content and functionality shifts from computer to personal device, we will be surrounded by a multimedia aura that accompanies us wherever we go
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The plan is that you'll use your phone to spend money everywhere, all the time.
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