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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

iCue > Welcome - 0 views

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    I am interested in this for connections, but I have concerns about the privacy policy and the use of our students' information for marketing purposes.
Patrick Higgins

From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning: Rocketron...Listen To News On Your Phone...O... - 0 views

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    This would be great for students who took in information better in auditory form.
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    Current events and news via your cell phone. Just dial this number and get updates: 408-907-2323
Patrick Higgins

Move beyond index cards: 12 ways to organize information online » TeachClever - 0 views

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    Here are some ways to make researching online available to your students. Also, my favorite part, to eliminate the notecard.
Patrick Higgins

Chris Jordan pictures some shocking stats | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Chris Jordan talks about how to he uses data and represents it visually. These images made the rounds last year, but his talk really shows how well they transfer the information he is trying to get out to people.
Patrick Higgins

The Four Rs: Rigor in Twenty-First-Century Schools | Edutopia - 0 views

  • We believe curriculum becomes rigorous when students are pushed not only to know information but also to apply and demonstrate their understanding of that information. We believe that requiring students to reflect on and analyze their thinking and learning might be the most challenging task you can require of a teenager.
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      Here is an example of a school in California that is taking much of what we have been discussing and applying it to their entire curriculum.
Patrick Higgins

Home | JOG THE WEB - 2 views

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    Lets you create a synchronous trip through websites for your students.  It's a step-by-step guide to finding information.
Patrick Higgins

100 Informative & Inspiring YouTube Videos for Educators | AccreditedOnlineColleges.com - 0 views

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    While YouTube may be known for sharing silly videos or as a way to see your sister's children who live across the country, it is actually becoming a powerful form of online education. This listing provides a collection of videos that educators will find both interesting and inspirational. Whether you are working with students at the elementary level or with college-aged students, you are sure to find plenty of inspiration among these YouTube videos
Patrick Higgins

Scoopler: Real-time search - 0 views

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    Real-time information on breaking news.
Patrick Higgins

Intelligent YouTube: 80 Smart Video Collections | Open Culture - 0 views

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    We are always on the hunt for ways to find intelligent and informed sources of video to show to our students. This list from Open Culture is an incredible list of "smart" videos found on the web.
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

Visualization Lab - 0 views

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    Use NYT data and IBM's Many Eyes to visualize data from the news.
Patrick Higgins

iCharts | create, share, and embed interactive charts online - 0 views

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    Charts for everything. Haven't tried to upload any data yet, but the available data is nice to look at. Try searching for something that interests you.
Patrick Higgins

http://stats.oecd.org/OECDregionalstatistics/indexTL2.html - 0 views

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    movable data sets that deal with the economic statistics from OECD
Patrick Higgins

CogDogRoo » 50 Ways - 0 views

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    Alan Levine's compendium of a lot of storytelling tools.
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    If you are looking for alternate ways to tell a story, or to have your students represent information, try these.
Patrick Higgins

Clusty the clustering search engine - 0 views

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    This is a great search engine that provides results in categories to help students "chunk" information.
Patrick Higgins

Americans Consume 34GB of Content a Day - Culture - Lifehacker - 1 views

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    "Americans Consume 34GB of Content a Day"
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