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Katie Silva

Age of Distraction: Why It's Crucial for Students to Learn to Focus | MindShift - 0 views

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    Focus and ability to concentration important skills for children to develop so technology is a tool rather than a distraction.
jenibo

How the internet is rewiring our brains. Nicholas Carr with Gideon Haigh | SlowTV | The... - 13 views

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    Interesting holiday viewing.  Carr introduces the idea that the constant distractions of the internet may be affecting our attention spans and points to research showing that hypertexted material is harder to comprehend due to the distraction and decision making required, which detracts from "deep reading".
Judy Russell

easTech: Dealing with distraction, 5 tools to help you get things done - 26 views

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    Tools to help students focus and get assignments completed.
Allison Burrell

Book Buddy Digital Media | Hear & Read Intervention - 19 views

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    "A research-based approach to reading intervention, The Book Buddy Hear & Read program pairs print content with audio, using the accessible, enabling technology of the GoReader™. Pre-loaded with audio, simple to operate, and affordable. Individualize instruction, despite overcrowded classrooms. Self-driven support, through simple technology, scaffolds instruction while building confidence. Hear & Read helps students develop phonemic awareness and fluency by synchronizing the image of a word with the sound of that word, and ultimately, the meaning of that word. Tablets and smart phones are amazing multi-function units. You can take photos, watch movies, surf the web, and play Angry Birds(c). The GoReader™ has one function: to support a striving reader without distractions. This simple, personal, educational tool is priced so that every student has access. The best solution for striving readers is the one that helps them learn to read - period."
Cathy Oxley

YouTube - Leanback - 14 views

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    Select and view YouTube videos without advertising and distracting sidebars.
Fran Bullington

SafeShare.TV - The Safest Way To Share YouTube videos - 15 views

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    SafeShare TV creates a new URL for a YouTube video. It elimnates the distracting elements around the video as it appears on YouTube and allows you to crop the video.
Robin Cicchetti

SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian - 20 views

  • His take on the education system, for example, is that it is a badly designed game: students compete for good grades, but lose motivation when they fail. A good game, by contrast, never makes you feel like you've failed: you just progress more slowly. Instead of giving bad students an F, why not start all pupils with zero points and have them strive for the high score?
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      How can this idea be applied to information skills and school libraries?
  • a consultant on cyber-crimefighting speaks with undisguised joy about how much information the police could glean from Facebook, in order to infiltrate communities where criminals might lurk. Asked about privacy concerns, she replies: "Yeah – we'll have to keep an eye on that."
  • Until recently, the debate over "digital distraction" has been one of vested interests: authors nostalgic for the days of quiet book-reading have bemoaned it, while technology zealots have dismissed it. But the fusion of the virtual world with the real one exposes both sides of this argument as insufficient, and suggests a simpler answer: the internet is distracting if it stops you from doing what you really want to be doing; if it doesn't, it isn't.
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  • "we were not meant to operate as computers do," Schwartz says. "We are meant to pulse."
  • "the dictator's dilemma".
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    Fascinating article about the next generation of the ubiquitous web and the implications. Good definition of "gamification." This is excellent background information for strategic planning and discussing the potential implications on education.
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    Fascinating article about the next generation of the ubiquitous web and the implications. Good definition of "gamification." This is excellent background information for strategic planning and discussing the potential implications on education.
Jamie Camp

Goal setting: of distractions and staying yar | Not So Distant Future - 5 views

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    Wow. How hard it is to keep all the balls in the air--and to decide which ones you should just let drop!
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