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60 Percent of Teens Text While Driving | LiveScience
Percentage of teens who text while driving. This is a concern and one that you should alleviate.
Twenty Uses for QR Codes and Tags for Marketing « Digital Business by Will Hawkins
This is information on QR codes for Marketing but in this there is potential for schools - particularly ubiquitous "hardlinks" between educational experiences like museums.
Stages of Concern
Dennis Richards shared this in our workshop and it is so true - these are the stages that we all go through when looking at any technology.
It is important to understand that as people connectin the world, that sometimes it takes time for people to accept change and research bears this out. This research shows the phases of change that all people go through based upon research by Hall & Loucks, 1979
Hands across the world - Flat Classroom Conference
This photograph snapped by five students from five different countries at the flat classroom conference says it all.
Learning the Skeleton with QR codes « Mr Robbo – The P.E Geek
OH, Mr. Robbo - I am already just crazy about him! Here he talks about how he teaches the skelton with QR Codes.!
YouTube - Flat Classroom- How We Roll
I love this video that George Haines and the students made about the experience of having students from around the world come together at the Flat Classroom conference. This is what they said about the conference - a phrase that the students coined and carried through the conference. Boy, what a great experience.
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: My students weigh in on Friedman's Flat World
Looking back, this is the blog post for me that changed it all - Thursday, October 12, 2006, I reflected on my students writing about Thomas Friedman's book with some great responses -- but Julie Lindsay responded with an idea to join our classrooms together to study these trends and thus, Flat Classroom was born.
YouTube - Three Cups of Tea SFPL Main Stage
Peace through education - this fits so well with what we're doing and seeing in Flat Classroom. Oh, if I could get an audience to learn but also to just connect for the vision with flat classroom.
Embassies Accepting Injured People in Tehran
There is a silent player to this whole thing in Iran -- Google maps.
Making All the Right Calls | Popular Science
Wow!!! Using cell phone technology, high powered medical diagnosis and lab work can be provided remotely through cameras. This is what letting students work with cell phones can do as this is Daniel Fletcher and his undergraduates at the University of California worked to create a mobile diagnosis tool from cell phones.
THIS is innovation. Harness the untapped power of student creativity and innovation and use it as a learning process. DO IT NOW!!
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“Imagine you’re out in the middle of nowhere and you want to be able to diagnose malaria,” says Daniel Fletcher, holding up what looks like a cellphone sprouting a kaleidoscope. All you have to do is aim the phone at a patient’s wan-looking skin or a drop of blood squeezed onto a microscope slide, he explains. Then you point, click, and hit “send.” The digital image zips to an off-site lab, where a technician scans it for signs of disease and e-mails back an initial diagnosis—all in less than 10 minutes. “In developing countries, patients wouldn’t have to go to a clinic,” he says. “You could make a diagnosis right in the field.” Although many impoverished patients lack access to clinics, 80 percent of the world’s population lives near a cellphone tower.
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With mobile devices like this, home health aides could start to provide diagnostic services, and they could also take pictures over time to show doctors whether a patient is getting better. We’ve got an opportunity to leapfrog some of the costs of health care.”—
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right
This website had a TON of hits this past month -- in the millions -- 3 people and some spreadsheets did this. (See Tom Hoffman's post for more on it.) I think this is something that the students of the Flat Classroom Project will need to integrate into their work.
Microsoft Office is coming to the Web Browser
Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
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Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
Thinking Machine wiki / Think Handhelds
Information collected by Karen Montgomery on using cell phones in learning. Some great resources are here.
PC World - 15 Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything
Great article on the technologies that will change everything. Wonderful for your movies.
Wireless Broadband Education Competition
Competition for envisioning the future of wireless broadband - what could you do with high speed wireless broadband. This competition carries a prize and a trip to Florida this next February - application due November 1st, so a quick turn around.
My good friend, Louise Maine, shared this with me. It is a great opportunity. Please share it.
25 Words of Work / Life Wisdom — Pass It On! - Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas . . . You’re only a stranger once.
Join Liz Strauss by sharing your 25 words of wisdom and linking back to Liz's blog.
Identity, Avatars, and Future of Humanity | Intrepid Teacher
I really enjoyed intrepid teacher's thoughts about changing your avatar and self expression. I think this is very insightful into what is in the minds of our students and children.
I don't think I change my picture much as it reminds me that I have 40 pounds to lose.
NEA: Teachers Caught on YouTube
Article about teachers being filmed and put on youtube -- I did a post a while back called "spies like us" that talks about this happening. Again, talk about behavior to kids before this happens at your school - www.digiteen.net is our effort.
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