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Official Google Blog: More books in more places: public domain EPUB downloads on Google... - 0 views

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    Google books makes downloading books in the public domain possible through their site.
Danielle Kopp

Amazon.com: Critical Thinking, Book 1: Problem Solving, Reasoning, Logic, Arguments: An... - 0 views

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    This is working well with the Connections teachers.
Patrick Higgins

Make your own book with Blurb - 0 views

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    Make your own books.
Patrick Higgins

FREE BOOK DOWNLOAD | The Thinking Stick - 0 views

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    "TTS_Reach_0615"
Patrick Higgins

Tikatok - 0 views

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    An easy way for students to publish a digital book.
Patrick Higgins

Reading in a Whole New Way | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

  • We can agree or disagree with Kevin, but the world keeps spinning. Screens are made and used in instructive and destructive ways. As an educator I need to learn to use screens as learning platforms so that I can model constructive informative behavior for the students I interact with. So here is how I came to write this post. I subscribe to Will Richardson's blog weblog-ed in my Google Reader. He shared a link to Kevin Kelly's blog Technium. As I read the blog post I used Diigo to underline and add sticky notes. I now have this annotation in my Diigo groups. I will Twitter this and add a link in the New Literacies Institute Ning at newlit.org. Kevin will sell a few more books, which I have hundreds of, and add more readers of his blog.
  • This article is very interesting because it made me think.And I thougt that I was right when I bought a computer for my 81st birthday.It has a wide screen,and I could enlarge the letters to be able to read it because my eyes are bad. I felt that I was not anymore excluded of the world.I had entered the 21st century. The last 12 or some years I spend writing a book by hand.Nobody would ever read a single word of the more than 400 pages.No editor would have accepted it.But is has been typed and now it is on the web.Everybody can read it,and sites of military history,dutch and french,published it or parts of it(I wrote it in french)because it is about the 1940-campaign. Thank you,dear author,you made me feel I was right.
  • Bring on the technology, we have plenty of idle brain space waiting to make use of it.
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    Kevin Kelly writes about how reading has changed from a silent, individual pastime to one that is collaborative, more physical pursuit.  
Patrick Higgins

The Rules | Brain Rules | - 0 views

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    John Medina's book about
Patrick Higgins

Read The Words - 0 views

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    How useful is this? Can you imagine the possiblities with this? Struggling readers rejoice! Students who spend so much time in the car going from this practice to that one? Get your book on iPod!
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    This is fantastic! We get inundated with loads of tools, but this one really stands out. What can you do with this?
Patrick Higgins

How tablets will change magazines, books, and newspapers - Feb. 10, 2010 - 1 views

  • The point is, Kelly says, media are changing. As they get mashed up with other media, newer forms are born. "Right now digital magazines are in the same phase that cinema was when it started out just recording plays. They weren't really movies." Reading will evolve. It's our job to make sure, however, that magazines adapt along with it.
Patrick Higgins

A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook. - By Vaughan... - 0 views

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    A respected Swiss scientist, Conrad Gessner, might have been the first to raise the alarm about the effects of information overload. In a landmark book, he described how the modern world overwhelmed people with data and that this overabundance was both "confusing and harmful" to the mind. The media now echo his concerns with reports on the unprecedented risks of living in an "always on" digital environment. It's worth noting that Gessner, for his part, never once used e-mail and was completely ignorant about computers. That's not because he was a technophobe but because he died in 1565. His warnings referred to the seemingly unmanageable flood of information unleashed by the printing press
Patrick Higgins

Presentations and Speaking Engagements « The Professional Portfolio of Patric... - 0 views

  • The New World of Summer Reading: A look at how we can leverage social media and technology to put more “books” in the hands of students.
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      Look at this stuff.  Woot.
Patrick Higgins

Invitations to Learn // Carol Ann Tomlinson - 0 views

  • I am accepted and acceptable here just as I am. I am safe here—physically, emotionally, and intellectually. People here care about me. People here listen to me. People know how I'm doing, and it matters to them that I do well. People acknowledge my interests and perspectives and act upon them.
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      Some great lines here regarding the needs of the learners in your classroom.
  • I understand what we do here. I see significance in what we do. What we do reflects me and my world. The work we do makes a difference in the world. The work absorbs me.
  • when students discover meaning and relevance implicit in books, ideas, and tasks. Without meaning, schoolwork is purposeless for students.
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  • What I learn here is useful to me now.
  • "Other teachers told us what to think. This one is different because she showed us how to think and that we can think."
  • Rubrics and work samples help students understand the hallmarks of quality work.
  • I accomplish things here that I didn't believe were possible.
  • the actions of those excellent teachers consistently convey invitation.
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    Tomlinson article detailing the emotional needs of learners in the classroom.
Erica Hartman

Shmoop Literature: Summary, Analysis, Themes, Characters, Paper - 0 views

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    still in beta but great potential
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