Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Partnership with Carnegie Hall Connects Musi... - 0 views
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As with the Turkey exchange, these students will communicate with their peers overseas and establish relationships to promote greater mutual understanding.
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connect New York City music students with their peers in Istanbul, Turkey
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During this school year, these youths have communicated with each other online and learned about their respective cultures and musical heritage. On December 16, the students were linked via digital video conference to attend, virtually, concerts by the Turkish clarinetist Selim Sesler in Istanbul and by the Maurice Brown jazz quintet in Carnegie Hall.
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Why Twitter Will Endure - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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On Twitter, anyone may follow anyone, but there is very little expectation of reciprocity. By carefully curating the people you follow, Twitter becomes an always-on data stream from really bright people in their respective fields, whose tweets are often full of links to incredibly vital, timely information.
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imagine knowing what the thought leaders in your industry were reading and considering. And beyond following specific individuals, Twitter hash tags allow you to go deep into interests and obsession: #rollerderby, #physics, #puppets and #Avatar, to name just a few of many thousands.
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Nearly a year in, I’ve come to understand that the real value of the service is listening to a wired collective voice.
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Global Voices Online » In aftermath of earthquake, eyewitness tweets from Haiti - 0 views
Wade Davis on endangered cultures | Video on TED.com - 0 views
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And I know there's some of you who say, "Well, wouldn't it be better? Wouldn't the world be a better place if we all just spoke one language?" And I say, "Great, let's make that language Yoruba. Let's make it Cantonese. Let's make it Kogi." And you'll suddenly discover what it would be like to be unable to speak your own language.
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What's interesting is the metaphor that defines the relationship between the individual and the natural world.
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It's not change or technology that threatens the integrity of the ethnosphere. It is power. The crude face of domination. Where ever you look around the world, you discover that these are not cultures destined to fade away. These are dynamic living peoples being driven out of existence by identifiable forces that are beyond their capacity to adapt to.
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When each of you in this room were born, there were 6,000 languages spoken on the planet. Now, a language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. A language is a flash of the human spirit. It's a vehicle through which the soul of each particular culture comes into the material world. Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed, a thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.
Wade Davis on the worldwide web of belief and ritual | Video on TED.com - 0 views
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Right now, as we sit here in this room, of those 6,000 languages spoken the day that you were born, fully half aren't being taught to children. So you're living through a time when virtually half of humanity's intellectual, social and spiritual legacy is being allowed to slip away. This does not have to happen. These peoples are not failed attempts at being modern -- quaint and colorful and destined to fade away as if by natural law.
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The myriad voices of humanity are not failed attempts at being us. They are unique answers to that fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? And there is indeed a fire burning over the earth, taking with it not only plants and animals, but the legacy of humanity's brilliance.
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In every case, these are dynamic, living peoples being driven out of existence by identifiable forces. That's actually an optimistic observation, because it suggests that if human beings are the agents of cultural destruction, we can also be, and must be, the facilitators of cultural survival.
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Right now, as we sit here in this room, of those 6,000 languages spoken the day that you were born, fully half aren't being taught to children. So you're living through a time when virtually half of humanity's intellectual, social and spiritual legacy is being allowed to slip away. This does not have to happen. These peoples are not failed attempts at being modern -- quaint and colorful and destined to fade away as if by natural law.
Google Voice for Students - 0 views
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Please Turn on Your Cell Phone: Change Observer: Design Observer - 0 views
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U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, came out in support of cell phone use saying, “Finding ways to use cell phones to deliver lesson plans to students would improve education and meet federal guidelines.”
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In the U.S., 76 percent of students ages 12 to 18 have their own cell phone. Forward-thinking educators recognize in these statistics a low-tech, low-cost solution to the ongoing technology problem in underserved schools, where hardware is dysfunctional, wireless infrastructure is weak and inadequate staffing fails to meet the demands of upkeep.
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The bottom line is cell phones are the most affordable, accessible way to provide access to technology and narrow the digital divide.
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How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Fast Company - 0 views
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"The Internet disrupts any industry whose core product can be reduced to ones and zeros," says Jose Ferreira, founder and CEO of education startup Knewton. Education, he says, "is the biggest virgin forest out there." Ferreira is among a loose-knit band of education 2.0 architects sharpening their saws for that forest.
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MIT in 2001, when the school agreed to put coursework online for free.
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"We're changing the culture of how we think about knowledge and how it should be shared and who are the owners of knowledge."
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Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Exploring Cellphones as Learning Tools - 0 views
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they created concise summaries of their group discussions using voice memos or videos.
Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: Using Skype in the languages classroom - 0 views
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