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Ed Webb

For Families Today, Technology Is Morning's First Priority - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 10 Aug 09 - Cached
  • This is morning in America in the Internet age. After six to eight hours of network deprivation — also known as sleep — people are increasingly waking up and lunging for cellphones and laptops, sometimes even before swinging their legs to the floor and tending to more biologically urgent activities.
  • The surge of early risers is reflected in online and wireless traffic patterns. Internet companies that used to watch traffic levels rise only when people booted up at work now see the uptick much earlier.
  • Ed Webb on 10 Aug 09
     
    Digital technology penetrates families, changes daily rhythms.
Ed Webb

Air Force used Twitter to track NY flyover fallout - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 10 Aug 09 - Cached
  • WASHINGTON – As the Pentagon warns of the security risks posed by social networking sites, newly released government documents show the military also uses these Internet tools to monitor and react to coverage of high-profile events. The Air Force tracked the instant messaging service Twitter, video carrier YouTube and various blogs to assess the huge public backlash to the Air Force One flyover of the Statue of Liberty this spring, according to the documents. And while the attempts at damage control failed — "No positive spin is possible," one PowerPoint chart reads — the episode opens a window into the tactics for operating in a boundless digital news cycle.
  • a unit called the Combat Information Cell at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida
  • A Utah Air National Guard unit, the 101st Information Warfare Flight in Salt Lake City, was also monitoring the social sites
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  • The issue of aliases is at the heart of a complaint stemming for the Army Corps of Engineers' performance in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. On Tuesday, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., asked the Pentagon inspector general to examine allegations that Corps employees posed as ordinary citizens and posted comments on a New Orleans web site defending the organization from criticism following the disaster. Jon Donley, former editor of NOLA.com, said in a June 9 affidavit that there were as many as 20 registered users who developed a pattern of not only defending the Corps, but at times being "overtly abusive" to any critics. He said he was able to trace their posts to a Corps Internet address. Ken Holder, a spokesman for Corps' New Orleans District, said it will cooperate with any investigation.
Ed Webb

The List | Foreign Policy - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 10 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • Foreign Policy's Twitterati 100 Twitter enables breaking news and  ideas to travel at the speed of your fingers. Here, in no particular order, are the 100 best Twitter users in international affairs.
Maggie Verster

School Board Bans Facebook, Twitter For Teachers - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 10 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 10 Aug 09
     
    Read below for one teacher's dismayed reaction, and weigh in with your thoughts. Does this seem like a legitimate restriction for safety or other reasons, or an over-reaction that will hinder teacher-student communications?
  • Maggie Verster on 10 Aug 09
     
    Read one teacher's dismayed reaction, and weigh in with your thoughts. Does this seem like a legitimate restriction for safety or other reasons, or an over-reaction that will hinder teacher-student communications?
Maggie Verster

Twenty-Five Interesting Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 10 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 10 Aug 09
     
    A collaborative presentation compiled by teachers. Some snippets of ideas for lessonplans.
Ed Webb

C. Wright Mills on blogging | Savage Minds - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 08 Aug 09 - Cached
  • On Intellectual Craftmanship. I was amazed how clearly the reasons why scholars blog were laid out in the opening paragraphs. In what follows I have changed none of Mills’s original language except for replaced ‘journal’ and ‘file’ with ‘website’ and ‘blog’. Clearly Mills didn’t envision the files he advocates as public documents, but other than that the parallels are uncanny
Ed Webb

Liberal Education Today : Twitter user base continues to grow - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 04 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Twitter’s audience is now 55 percent international.
Maggie Verster

Mass Twitter follow and unfollow tool: Very handy! - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 03 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 03 Aug 09
     
    This is a handy tool as I can create lists for workshops to get teachers to follow other teachers quick.
Ed Webb

The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age - The MIT Press - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 28 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Davidson and Goldberg call on us to examine potential new models of digital learning and rethink our virtually enabled and enhanced learning institutions.
  • available in a free digital edition
Ed Webb

How to Wake Up Slumbering Minds - WSJ.com - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • what school requires students to do -- think abstractly -- is in fact not something our brains are designed to be good at or to enjoy
  • it is critical that the task be just difficult enough to hold our interest but not so difficult that we give up in frustration. When this balance is struck, it is actually pleasurable to focus the mind for long periods of time
  • Students are ready to understand knowledge but not create it. For most, that is enough. Attempting a great leap forward is likely to fail.
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  • students cannot apply generic "critical thinking skills" (another voguish concept) to new material unless they first understand that material
  • Trying to use "reading strategies" -- like searching for the main idea in a passage -- will be futile if you don't know enough facts to fill in what the author has left unsaid.
  • what is being taught in most of the curriculum -- at all levels of schooling -- is information about meaning, and meaning is independent of form
  • At some point, no amount of dancing will help you learn more algebra
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jul 09
       
      But if you learn dancing AND algebra, you may be better at both, or at least approach each in a more interesting way.
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