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"people in their 20s exert more control over their digital reputations than older adults, more vigorously deleting unwanted posts and limiting information about themselves."

Good article to balance the hysteria and myths that us oldies know what's up and the kids aren't informed.

It is good news about the older teenagers, and those in their 20's however as noted in the article "Younger teenagers were not included in these studies, and they may not have the same privacy concerns. But anecdotal evidence suggests that many of them have not had enough experience to understand the downside to oversharing". These kids need to be our target audience when talking about cybersafety etc, as like with many other facets of a teenagers life, they don't necessarily have the "fear factor" and understand the long term risks.

"Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. "

I know my students are learning how to use a text book, take them outside and measure/photograph a problem and they are left hanging. This is a great view on how to get students to discover knowledge. It is a powerful tool.

Create a "room", chat online in real time. Simple and clean design. Great for class room use.

Great list for managing iPads in schools - syncing, etc.

Fantastic article highlighting great pedagogy, true leadership and richer measures

This is a great opportunity for those of you in the AISV groups to engage your students in an authentic challenge to envision learning in the future.

a pretty good video re personal profiles and reputations. Unfortunately for an Aussie audience the sport is baseball, and maybe our rugby players and crickteers sully their reps in person rather than online..., but see what you think

A young man relays his experience with negative consequences of online reputations.

So, in the interest of preparing for teaching a new course next year, and wanting to sort TED out a bit, I've created the following list based on disciplines (organizing knowledge or research by discipline is, it should be pointed out, in stark contrast to the real objective of TED Talks in general). I really like this TED fella, and I hope he doesn't mind:)

Considers that those who doodle and sketch with pen and paper while listening to presentations, lectures, lessons etc will have a better retention of information than those who do not doodle. To doodle or not to doodle, that is the question! Do you doodle when you are deep in thought?

Photo-mosaic portrait of the Earth.

photo-mosaic portrait of the Earth

Essentially iTunesU has come to YouTube. What do you think?

His most recent book, Five Minds for the Future, offers some advice for policy-makers on how to do a better job of preparing students for the 21st century. Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Gardner about his new book, the possibility of teaching ethics and how his concept of multiple intelligences has changed over time.

100 excellent twitter feeds for teachers

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