Internet access is universal, with 99% of students able to access the Internet outside of school.
Reflecting about life online | MediaSmarts - 0 views
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Close to half (49%) of students in Grade 4 have access to their own phone or someone else’s phone on a regular basis
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online life has become increasingly social, with social networking now an integral component of many online activities.
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Google App Scripts for Educators | Inside the classroom, outside the box! - 3 views
The dumbest generation? No, Twitter is making kids smarter - The Globe and Mail - 1 views
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The only way to tell whether kids today are really less coherent or literate than their great-grandparents is to compare student writing across the past century
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Over the past century, the freshman composition papers had exploded in length and intellectual complexity.
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Prof. Lunsford’s research has found, 40 per cent of all writing is done outside the classroom – it’s “life writing,” stuff students do socially, or just for fun.
Makerspace in Education | Inside the classroom, outside the box! - 0 views
Private Rights, the Public Good and Social Media | technology4engagement - 0 views
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The Supreme Court “…ruled that teachers must adhere to a higher standard of conduct- both inside and outside the classroom- than people in other occupations.”
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recommend is not treating social media as a private space
Musings on Mindset | Inside the classroom, outside the box! - 0 views
Factory Schools? A Debate | Redu: Rethink / Reform / Rebuild Education - 0 views
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that factory-model schooling was not just ineffective but actually harmful to most students—a message which had been so radical and out of the mainstream twenty years ago, actually sounded very much like the messages of my other guests.
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the Internet has become an unparalleled platform for learning, intitiative, participation, productivity, and creativity, almost all of this happens outside of formal educational institutions
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technology as a liberating force
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Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | Video on TED.com - 0 views
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The fundamental shift that Sir Ken is talking about is more similar to discovery based education. Just like google which allows its employees to use 20% of their time to pursue any pet project, I think the education system should have 20% time free time for kids to to pursue any idea or vision or dream maybe within school or outside the school. This is one way to balance the rigid structure of the current learning against total flexible system where its easy for kids to be lost without learning some valuable knowledge. So the main question is should we allow 20-25% of time as free time to pursue their dream ? I think it is yes
Day-to-day with the 11-inch MacBook Air and iPad 2 | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNE... - 0 views
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Using the 11.6-inch MacBook Air and the iPad 2 on a daily basis is an ongoing study in high-mobility computing and the pros and cons of both devices.
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there are two gigantic (and, yes, obvious) differences that make me lean toward complementary. One has a keyboard, one doesn't. And one runs OS X, the other iOS.
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soon as I wander outside the confines of the office, I naturally reach for the iPad.
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The Innovative Educator: Using Classroom publishing to teach outside the box - 0 views
Which Educational Games for the Kids Should Be Given child? - 0 views
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Modern age is the gift of science and technology. Now a day, we are very much depending on thenewly invented gifts of science & technology which provide us different facilities. Our activities has been centerrounded by its gift. In ancient time, we would spent most of our time in playing outside of the house.
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