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  • Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com on 2009-12-19
  • Released Ahead of Schedule - DotSchools.com Beta "Where Technology, Career Education and Students Meet" on 2009-12-16
  • MediaPost Publications Five Things You Should Know About Kids And The Internet 02/10/2009 on 2009-12-13

    • Advertising Draws Kids To The Internet


      More than half (57.0%) of kids who surfed the Web in the last 30 days did so because advertising drove them there. This group was fairly evenly divided by gender: 50.9% were girls and 49.1% were boys. While advertising motivated 50.4% of kids ages 6-7 to Web sites, it did so to 62.0% of youths in the 10-11 age set.



  • Teaching Media Literacy: Yo! Are you Hip to This? on 2009-12-12

    • Educators find numerous reasons to introduce media literacy as part of the curriculum. Some see media literacy as a tool to build relevance into contemporary education, building links between the classroom and the culture, so that students will see how themes and issues resonate in popular culture as they do in the study of literature, history or social studies. Some see media literacy as a citizenship survival skill, necessary to be a thoughtful consumer and an effective citizen in a superhighway-driven media age. Some see media literacy as a kind of protection for children against the dangers and evils engendered by the excesses of television, and they also see media literacy as an antidote to manipulation and propaganda.

      Others see media literacy as a new kind of English education, learning to appreciate and analyze ads and sitcoms and films with the same tools used to study poetry, short story and the novel. And then there are those who see media literacy as a way to give children the opportunity to tell their own stories and better understand the power of those who shape the stories of our culture and our times.

    • It's time to help ourselves and our children to embrace and celebrate the messages worth treasuring, to analyze and understand the economic and political forces which sustain it, and to develop the skills and new habits we need to think carefully and wisely about the messages we create ourselves and the abundant messages we receive .
  • Carnegie Corporation Endorses Media Literacy Education for Young Adolescents on 2009-12-12
    • Encourage socially responsible media programming.

      Three decades of research point to a consistent, causal linkage between exposure to violence on television and aggressive behavior in children and adolescents. Violence is not the only issue, however. The media also shape adolescents' views of everything from gender, ethnic, and occupational roles to standards of beauty, family life, and sexuality. Writers, producers, directors and executives should recognize how important positive images are and work with experts on child and adolescent development so that such knowledge can be taken into account.
  • Education Week: Tech-Literacy Confusion: What Knowledge and Skills Really Matter? on 2009-12-12
    • When one looks at the ISTE standards for student tech literacy, you see big headings like Creativity and Innovation, Communication and Collaboration, Research and Information Fluency, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Digital Citizenship, and Technology Operations and Concepts. These headings are more about process skills than content knowledge (except for Technology Operations and Concepts). These process skills should be taught in EVERY curricular subject area because they are essential in preparing students to be lifelong learnings capable of navigating the world around them and thinking critically while using technology tools. Furthermore, the application of technology and technology skills is vital in EVERY curricular subject area.
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  • Augmented Reality: Not That Real Yet - BusinessWeek on 2009-12-07

    • In theory, a service should be able to take your latitude, longitude, and orientation and tell you exactly what you are looking at.



      Alas, the data aren't nearly accurate enough for that.

    • There's an even bigger conceptual problem with augmented reality as it is used today by a variety of search apps such as the Layar Reality Browser, Wikitude World Browser, or Presselite's Bionic Eye.
  • Education Week: Teachers Using Cellphones for Classroom Lessons on 2009-12-07
    • Much more attention has gone to the ways students might use phones to cheat or take inappropriate pictures. But as the technology becomes cheaper, more advanced, and more ingrained in students' lives that mentality is changing.
    • Teachers who have incorporated cell phones into their classes say that most students abide by the rules. They note that cheating and bullying exist with or without the phones, and that once they are allowed, the inclination to use them for bad behavior dissipates.
  • Education Week: Final Chapter for Texas Textbooks? on 2009-11-22
  • Education Week: Cellphones in Schools: Flip ’Em Open on 2009-11-22
    • When he suggested that schools should have open-phone tests, as a measure to combat cellphone cheating, one of the students responded, “Dude, we already have open-phone tests. The teachers just don’t know it.”

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