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Deron Durflinger

Waukee school board studies calendar issues through survey | Des Moines Register Staff ... - 0 views

  • d rather have school start late on professional development days, rather than ending early. “In another words, let kids have some sleep, sleep in a couple of times a month or whatever instead of getting home early, which doesn’t do them any good. I’ve heard a lot of that from parents,” Duncan said. Cindi McDonald, Waukee’s associate superintendent, said mornings are the prime learning time for students. Tags: calendar, Cindi McDonald, Dave Duncan, Duane Magee, Lance Mouw, school calendar, Waukee, Waukee Community School District, Waukee School Board, Waukee School District, West Des Moines .AR_1 .ob_what{text-align:right;clear:both;} .AR_1 .ob_clear{clear:both;} .AR_1 .ob_dual_container{ clear:both; } .AR_1 .ob_dual_left,.AR_1 .ob_dual_right { float:left; width:46%; padding:0 2%; } .AR_1 .ob_empty{ display:none; } YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN Firm apologizes for ethanol gas mistake in Iowa (DesMoinesRegister.com) Driver of Firebird in Greene County triple fatality was not licensed to drive (Des Moines Register) Parents of Waukee middle-schoolers can attend ‘Assessment for Learning’ class (Des Moines Register) Parents can learn about assessments (DesMoinesRegister.com) Boys' basketball: Friday night's statewide scoreboard, area highlights | Altoona Herald | desmoinesregister.com (altoonaherald.com) SPONSORED LINKS Romney’s ‘Charlie Crist’ Problem Could Hurt with GOP (Newsmax.com) FBI warns of new banking scam (Bankrate.com) NFL: The Most Classless Player on Every Team (BleacherReport)
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Deron Durflinger

Privacy and Security - Google Apps Iowa - 0 views

  • The school district will make all reasonable efforts to ensure that all Google Apps users (staff and students) are made aware of the district's acceptable use guidelines.  Students who will have Google Apps accounts created must not only agree to the "Google Apps terms of service" (presented to them the first time they log in, see below), but they, along with their parent or legal guardian, should also initial and sign the District's Acceptable Use Policy.
Shannon McClintock Miller

5 Handy iPad Apps to Create Infographics ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views

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    5 Handy iPad Apps to Create Infographics http://t.co/R4IrnnSs0K These will be fun to try out @janellejt #vanmeter
Shannon McClintock Miller

RT @sljournal: Librarians, School and Public, Tap the Best in Kids' Apps | ALA Annual 2... - 0 views

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    RT @sljournal: Librarians, School and Public, Tap the Best in Kids' Apps | ALA Annual 2012 - The Digital Shift http://t.co/F1xY4UhB #ala12
Shannon McClintock Miller

32 Augmented Reality Apps for the Classroom - 0 views

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    RT @KleinErin: 32 Augmented Reality Apps for the Classroom From edshelf http://t.co/D5plL5oNSw via @TeachThought
Shannon McClintock Miller

Travel the World from Your Classroom.... Free iPad Apps for Virtual Field Trips from @E... - 0 views

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    Travel the World from Your Classroom.... Free iPad Apps for Virtual Field Trips from @Edutopia http://t.co/VE4poVvxSk #tlchat #vanmeter
Shannon McClintock Miller

10 Creative iPad Apps for Digital Storytelling in Class http://t.co/wToINyPXsx #vanmete... - 0 views

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    10 Creative iPad Apps for Digital Storytelling in Class http://t.co/wToINyPXsx #vanmeter #tlchat
Shannon McClintock Miller

Apple - Education - Apps - 0 views

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    Thousands of Apps.  
Shannon McClintock Miller

Bloom's Taxonomy and iPad Apps | Langwitches Blog - 0 views

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    AWESOME....Bloom's Taxonomy and iPad Apps from Langwitches Blog http://ow.ly/68XnM
Shannon McClintock Miller

Quixey - Find apps that do what you want - 0 views

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    Quixey - Find apps that do what you want http://ow.ly/6l92s
Deron Durflinger

Niall Ferguson: How American Civilization Can Avoid Collapse - The Daily Beast - 0 views

  • The Work Ethic
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      This is the one I feel has lost the most traction at many levels. For sure not just with our students either.
  • these killer apps were essentially monopolized by Europeans and their cousins who settled in North America and Australasia
  • the great divergence
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  • They also grew more powerful
  • 20th century, just a dozen Western empires—-including the United States—controlled 58 percent of the world’s land surface and population, and a staggering 74 percent of the global economy.
  • tendency of Western societies to delete their own killer apps.
  • But there is a second, more insidious cause of the “great reconvergence,” which I do deplore—and that is the
  • Ask yourself: who’s got the work ethic now? The average South Korean works about 39 percent more hours per week than the average American. The school year in South Korea is 220 days long, compared with 180 days here. And you don’t have to spend too long at any major U.S. university to know which students really drive themselves: the Asians and Asian-Americans
  • Yet life expectancy in the U.S. has risen from 70 to 78 in the past 50 years, compared with leaps from 68 to 83 in Japan and from 43 to 73 in China.
  • On no fewer than 15 of 16 different issues relating to property rights and governance, the United States fares worse than Hong Kong. Indeed, the U.S. makes the global top 20 in only one area: investor protection
  • The future belongs not to them but to today’s teenagers
  • The latest data on “mathematical literacy” reveal that the gap between the world leaders—the students of Shanghai and Singapore—and their American counterparts is now as big as the gap between U.S. kids and teenagers in Albania and Tunisia.
  • Yet statistics from the World Intellectual Property Organization show that already more patents originate in Japan than in the U.S., that South Korea overtook Germany to take third place in 2005, and that China is poised to overtake Germany too
  • the United States’ average competitiveness score has fallen from 5.82 to 5.43, one of the steepest declines among developed economies. China’s score, meanwhile, has leapt up from 4.29 to 4.90.
  • Perhaps more disturbing is the decline of meaningful competition at home, as the social mobility of the postwar era has given way to an extraordinary social polarization. You don’t have to be an Occupy Wall Street leftist to believe that the American super-rich elite—the 1 percent that collects 20 percent of the income—has become dangerously divorced from the rest of society, especially from the underclass at the bottom of the income distribution.
  • Far more than in Europe, most Americans remain instinctively loyal to the killer applications of Western ascendancy, from competition all the way through to the work ethic. They know the country has the right software. They just can’t understand why it’s running so damn slowly.
  • What we need to do is to delete the viruses that have crept into our system: the anticompetitive quasi monopolies that blight everything from banking to public education; the politically correct pseudosciences and soft subjects that deflect good students away from hard science; the lobbyists who subvert the rule of law for the sake of the special interests they represent—to say nothing of our crazily dysfunctional system of health care, our overleveraged personal finances, and our newfound unemployment ethic
  • And finally we need to reboot our whole system.
  • If what we are risking is not decline but downright collapse, then the time frame may be even tighter than one election cycle
  • Western Civilization's Killer Apps
  • COMPETITION
  • THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
  • THE RULE OF LAW
  • MODERN MEDICINE
  • THE CONSUMER SOCIETY
  • THE WORK ETHIC
Shannon McClintock Miller

croak.it! - speak to the web! - 2 views

shared by Shannon McClintock Miller on 03 Jun 12 - No Cached
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    LOVE this really easy free recording app.  Great for podcasting and video blogging. 
Shannon McClintock Miller

Apptivities - 1 views

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    Great ideas for using apps in teaching and learning
Shannon McClintock Miller

The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness: StoryCorps - 2 views

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    Library of Congress provides this great tool to record, share and preserve the stories of our lives.   Even iPhone app available now.  
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