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The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies
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Are Students Really Studying More than Social Networking?
SurveyU, students went on the record to say that they are much likelier to spend more than three hours studying online each day than participating in any other online activity, such as using FacebookFacebookFacebook or other social networking sites.
StudyBlue, an online academic network that aims to help students study smarter, used SurveyU’s high school and college student panel to survey about 1,500 students, ages 13 – 24, about their online study habits. While we expect students to actively use the web to enrich their study experience, we’re a little surprised that studying won out over social networking. After all, we use Facebook and TwitterTwitterTwitter all day long.
The study found that 60% of students plan to study online three hours longer than doing anything else online, while only 26% of respondents predicted that they will spend more time online social networking than studying. Thankfully, 84% of surveyed students think the web has helped them perform more effectively and efficiently in school, and 54% have plans to increase their online studying habits this year over previous years.
A few other interesting stats from the survey:
College students are about twice as a likely to plan on spending 3 hours or more a day studying and doing homework online than they plan on going to social network sites (26%), communicating (email, IM, Chatting, etc…) (28%), or watching TV, Videos and online movies (22%)
College students are more than 6 times as likely to plan on spending 3 hours or more a day studying and doing homework online than they plan on spending playing online games (9%)
College students are three times as likely to plan on spending 3 hours or more a day studying and doing homework online than they plan on reading blogs/news and other content (18%)
On a semi-serious note, however, social media is proving to be an educational resource and utility,
Apple mauls Microsoft with ‘Snow Leopard’ OS X upgrade pricing
This morning’s WWDC keynote revealed that the forthcoming OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ will launch in September with an upgrade pricing of US$29 for users of 10.5 Leopard.
This morning’s WWDC keynote revealed that the forthcoming OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ will launch in September with an upgrade pricing of US$29 for users of 10.5 Leopard.
Top News - Senate bill supports 21st-century skills
The bill, which is co-sponsored by Sens. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and John Kerry, D-Mass., suggests several areas where states could expand their curricula to encompass 21st-century skills, such as global awareness; financial, economic, business, and entrepreneurial literacy; civic literacy; and health and wellness awareness.
"Students need to go beyond just learning today's academic context to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills, communications skills, creativity and innovation skills, collaboration skills, contextual learning skills, and information and media literacy skills," the bill reads.
If passed, the bill would appropriate $100 million a year for the U.S. Department of Education to pass on to states that have developed a comprehensive plan for implementing a statewide 21st-century skills initiative and are able to supply matching funds for their initiative.
Since the Partnership for 21st Century Skills was founded in 2002, ten states have voluntarily adopted the more comprehensive set of skills and standards that the group says are needed for students to remain competitive in the classroom—and beyond.
Make your own comic with MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages
How to Geotag Your Photos | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
Eye-Fi's new "Eye-Fi Explore" Wi-Fi memory card, announced this morning at O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference, will write that information into the Exif data (the standard metadata set) in any camera that can take an SD card. It's revolutionary, and could ca
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Scientists release educational computer game
"Immune Attack" helps students explore the immune system
By Meris Stansbury, Assistant Editor, eSchool News
Primary Topic Channel: Gaming
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TechBlog: Bookmark these: Plumbing the depths of the Twittersphere
Here's a list of Web sites that render more useful the streams of information generated by Twitter's users. Some you may know about; others are more obscure. But if you're a Twitter user who has yet to explore the world built around Twitter, you owe itsel
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