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08 Dec 09

NASSP - Power Down or Charge Up?

  • In most secondary schools, students are told to power down their technology when they arrive on campus. As they do so, students also power down a major way they access information and think.
  • During this conversation, the teacher noticed that one of his students was veering off-track. Taking out his mobile phone, the teacher sent a quick text message to the student, who happened to have ADD/ADHD, that read, "You okay? Need me?" Upon reading the message, the student looked over at the teacher, smiled, and went back to work.
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ABC News: Schools Dump Textbooks for iPods, Laptops

  • Laptops and iPods cost money, of course, but so do textbooks; some can run a couple hundred dollars each. And because there is so much free educational material online, high-tech can sometimes mean low-cost.
  • There is another strike against traditional textbooks: They go out of date, sometimes within a year or so, and replacing them can cost a school district hundreds of thousands of dollars. But with new technology like e-books or handheld devices, updates can happen instantaneously.
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10 Sep 09

The Power of Educational Technology: 10 Tips for Teaching Technology to Teachers

  • Don't be the only teacher: Encourage teachers to work together and coach each other.
  • Remember there is great teaching without technology: There are many ways to teach and many great lessons that do not use technology. Respect the expertise of your colleagues.
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15 Aug 09

New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development - MacArthur Foundation

  • spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age.”
  • The social worlds that youth are negotiating have new kinds of dynamics, as online socializing is permanent, public, involves managing elaborate networks of friends and acquaintances, and is always on.
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15 Jun 09

Education Week: Schools Seen as Inhibiting Student Tech. Use

  • Those students should be given a more formal role in determining how new technology—particularly mobile devices, such as smartphones, and Web 2.0 tools, like social-networking sites–can be tapped to improve schooling, a report on the survey findings suggests.
  • “Today’s students are early adopters and adapters of new technologies, creating new uses for a myriad of technology products to meet their sophisticated needs,” it says. “They can be predictors or at least harbingers of how technology could be used to transform education.”
14 May 09

What Companies Should Know About Digital Natives « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing

  • [By age 20, kids will have spent 20,000 hours online –the same amount of time a professional piano player would have spent practicing --Dr. Urs Gasser]
  • Extensive disclosure of personal data: 35% of girls in US are writing a blog vs 20% boys. Opportunity for HR departments to learn more about their employees, but guess what? They Google you too.
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Top News - iPods help ESL students achieve success

  • Another tool that can work with iPods is a voice recorder called the Belkin Tune Talk, which is built specifically for iPods and attaches to the base. Poli believes this is beneficial for ESL students because they can record themselves working on oral language skills and practice their pronunciation of words.
    • What a cool tool for language learners! - on 2009-05-11
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04 May 09

Writer’s Workshop Goes Digital | always learning

    • Students will begin to understand:



      1. Purpose and audience for communication determine the appropriate media choice.
      2. Design and layout impact the quality and effectiveness of communications.
  • rite a portion of personal narrative and then show how you would change it for a different audience. Give students the choice of who their new audience is
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