Significant findings include –
There is a generation gap in how youth and adults view the value of online activity.
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Star Local News > Frisco Enterprise > News > Frisco ISD considers cloud computing - 0 views
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"The Frisco ISD Technology and Information Services department has been evaluating new technology to enhance learning in and out of the classroom. Their latest consideration involves going "to the cloud.""
21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020 - 1 views
New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development - 0 views
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Youth are navigating complex social and technical worlds by participating online.
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Most youth are not taking full advantage of the learning opportunities of the Internet.
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MacArthur Foundation ~ Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America's youth are developing important social and technical skills online - often in ways adults do not understand or value.
Top News - Four trends that could change everything - 0 views
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As a result, educators might do well to take heed of four of the more ubiquitous of these trends, which I'll allude to by means of these labels: (1) parallel computing, (2) cloud computing, (3) brain mapping, and (4) the "global dis-assembly line."
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Humanity is developing a network-enabled, computer-assisted global consciousness.
21 Online Student Tools to Help with Research, Communication, and Organization | Educho... - 0 views
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Student life can be overwhelming. There's so much to do! Make life easier by checking out this list of 21 web resources that every student can use.
100 Educators to Follow on Twitter! - 0 views
12 Expert Twitter Tips for the Classroom: Social Networking Classroom Activities That E... - 1 views
Focus: The Forgotten 21st Century Skill - 0 views
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"...If the focus of an educational system is student learning, as most mission statements claim, then leaders must compare the reality of their employment of technology with their stated intention."
Eigth habits of highly effective 21st century teachers - 0 views
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We expect our students to be life-long learners. Teachers, must continue to absorb experiences and knowledge, as well. We must endeavour to stay current. I wonder how many people are still using their lesson and unit plans from five years ago. To be a teacher, you must learn and adapt as the horizons and landscapes change.
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We hear a lot about the 21st century learner - but what about the 21st century teacher? Andrew Churches investigates what makes them succeed.
Creative Commons Video Sharing Sites and Social Media Tools - Podcasting Law - Zimbio - 0 views
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A roundup of online video hosting services and related tools that support publishing under Creative Commons. These are services for sharing documentaries, movies and short video clips that can be legally downloaded and freely distributed under the terms of license.
New guidelines for Fair Use! - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog - 0 views
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The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education outlines five principles, each with limitations: Educators can, under some circumstances: 1. Make copies of newspaper articles, TV shows, and other copyrighted works, and use them and keep them for educational use. 2. Create curriculum materials and scholarship with copyrighted materials embedded. 3. Share, sell and distribute curriculum materials with copyrighted materials embedded. Learners can, under some circumstances: 4. Use copyrighted works in creating new material. 5. Distribute their works digitally if they meet the transformativeness standard.
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The Code, video and other curriculum materials for educators are available at http://centerforsocialmedia.org/medialiteracy and can also be found at http://mediaeducationlab.com/.
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Summary of efforts from Temple Media Lab.
Techlearning > > The New Rules of Copyright > October 15, 2008 - 0 views
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The innovative nonprofit organization Creative Commons turns the process around, making the concept of protecting and sharing work online not onerous, but positive.
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The alternative is to label educational objects located all over the Internet with a set of shared attributes and allow them all to be accessed through a customized search engine.
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - 0 views
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Even a dog knows you can't erase something once it's flowed on the internet.
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If reproductions of our best efforts are free, how can we keep going? To put it simply, how does one make money selling free copies?
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When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable.
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"The internet is a copy machine."
Better Strategies Needed for School Internet Access - 0 views
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Under the Children's Internet Protection Act of 2000, any school or library that uses federal funds to buy computers is required to install Internet filters. Such legislation may score political points, but it isn't safeguarding students from online hazards. More often, filters hamstring teachers' efforts to develop lessons that effectively prepare students for 21st-century challenges.
10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com - 0 views
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The most dreaded word in school reading for students: book reports. Teachers assign them, viewing them as a necessary component of assessing reading comprehension. Book reports can be a contributing factor to 'readicide'. "Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools." http://stenhouse.com/html/readicide.htm. So, how can we as teachers continue to monitor our students understanding of reading material without killing the love of reading? Enter technology. Technology can help bring some excitement and creativity to the traditional book report while still displaying students understanding of reading.
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