And here’s the thing: He wrote that at the age of 14, in his spare time, at a point when the longest assignment he ever had in school was maybe 500 to 1,000 words. What motivated him? Other gamers. He had written a little bit of the guide and put it online – when he started getting e-mails saying how much other players liked it, were using it and asking when he was going to complete it.
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The dumbest generation? No, Twitter is making kids smarter - The Globe and Mail - 1 views
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Part of what makes the online environment so powerful, as Prof. Lunsford says, is that it provides a sense of purpose: “[Students are] writing things that have an impact on the world – that other people are reading and responding to.
The five most powerful ways teachers aren't using Google Drive (yet) - 3 views
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Drive just keeps getting better! There's a movement here to catch up with some of Evernote's features. Excited to see WeVideo as a third-party app extension.
Technology in the Hands of a Great Teacher | Greg Schwanbeck - 1 views
Maine Voices: Ethical considerations must be part of education in digital citizenship |... - 1 views
Free Technology for Teachers: How to Add Voice Comments to Google Documents - 2 views
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AWESOME! This saves a ton of time playing with workarounds like screencast-o-matic. Very cool possibilities here.
Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Good Places for Students to Find Public Domain Images - 1 views
OMG! Survey, like, says digital-savvy students are good at writing! - latimes.com - 0 views
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more than two-thirds of their students had fair or poor abilities to digest long and complicated texts and understand plagiarism issues
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found such advantages as greater creativity, personal expression and increased collaboration
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promoted a deeper interest in writing because students could see their works published in such online forums as http://www.figment.com
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copyrightfriendly - Avatar Makers - 2 views
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Neat collection of sites for making avatars. Found this in NWP's MOOC.
8 Educational Apps To Create Digital Portfolios - 2 views
Using Padlet (f.k.a. WallWisher) across the curriculum - 1 views
3 Ideas That Will Not Transform Schools - 5 views
How My Learning Has Changed « - 1 views
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So, having also recently attended an EdCamp, I can say there is something between that and a traditional conference that would be best for how I want to learn. And, I am okay with giving up a Saturday (with the promise of a bagged lunch) to sit in a high school to talk teaching and learning.
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Boy, this sounds a whole lot like SMWP's upcoming tech conference.
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If I am going to travel to conferences, then I need it to add value — not only to come away with new ideas, but new tools that I have had the chance to try, and the experience I couldn’t have had if I were not there.
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What I need now is a chance to spend time making sense of what I am hearing — I crave the opportunity to engage with the smart people who are with me in the room.
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How Teens Do Research in the Digital World | Pew Research Center's Internet & American ... - 2 views
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Some 77% of advanced placement (AP) and National Writing Project (NWP) teachers surveyed say that the internet and digital search tools have had a “mostly positive” impact on their students’ research work.
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Something to say.
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Interesting study about students and research.
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