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mbarek Akaddar

More colleges, professors shutting down laptops and other digital distractions - 9 views

  • As a culture, we're at an odd crossroads regarding personal computers. For years, educators have been clamoring to put technology in the hands of young students through partnerships with big tech companies, best symbolized by the One Laptop Per Child initiative
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    More colleges, professors shutting down laptops and other digital distractions
Maggie Verster

Free Facebook 101 Tutorial - 0 views

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    Facebook is a social networking site that connects friends, relatives, classmates, colleagues, and groups that share common interests. How did Facebook get started? What can you do on Facebook? Is anything really private on Facebook? Facebook 101 answers these questions and several more. The goal of this tutorial is to get you up to speed on how to create, use, and maintain your Facebook profile.
Denise De Felice

Brain and Language Lab - 0 views

  • We are interested in understanding the biological and computational bases of language
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  • Specific Language Impairment, ADHD, dyslexia, autism
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  • Specific Language Impairment, ADHD, dyslexia, autism,
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    Here we can find the results of important research conducted by credible neuroscientists. It may help those interested in the topic to build knowledge in the field of neuroeducation.
dani lyra

The Sequoia Foundation in pirai - 0 views

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    site of a great foundation that has the best approach to teach young learners in a digital town in rio de janeiro
Desiree Noland

Photo Editor - 0 views

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    Similar to Adobe but free
Maggie Verster

A list of wiki platforms - 9 views

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    Do you want to start a wiki? Look through the list to pick one!
Desiree Noland

Screen casts - 10 views

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    Record up to 5 mins of screen casts for free without downloading anything
impalasue

College students' use of Kindle DX points to e-reader's role in academia - University o... - 3 views

  • “Most e-readers were designed for leisure reading – think romance novels on the beach,” said co-author Charlotte Lee, a UW assistant professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering. “We found that reading is just a small part of what students are doing. And when we realize how dynamic and complicated a process this is, it kind of redefines what it means to design an e-reader.”
  • The Kindle DX was more likely to replace students’ paper-based reading than their computer-based reading.
  • With paper, three quarters of students marked up texts as they read. This included highlighting key passages, underlining, drawing pictures and writing notes in margins.
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  • A drawback of the Kindle DX was the difficulty of switching between reading techniques, such as skimming an article’s illustrations or references just before reading the complete text. Students frequently made such switches as they read course material. The digital text also disrupted a technique called cognitive mapping, in which readers used physical cues such as the location on the page and the position in the book to go back and find a section of text or even to help retain and recall the information they had read.
  • “E-readers are not where they need to be in order to support academic reading,” Lee concludes. But asked when e-readers will reach that point, she predicts: “It’s going to be sooner than we think.”
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    This discusses the effect of e-readers on cognitive mapping and other reading techniques.
Desiree Noland

Team WhiteBoarding with Twiddla - Painless Team Collaboration for the Web - 2 views

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    Online whiteboard- can upload images, text in same window. Share out a link to work collaboratively.
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