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10 Jun 09

When Gen X Runs the Show - The Future of Work - TIME

  • "In 2019, Gen X will finally be in charge. And they will make some big changes."
06 Jun 09

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME

  • Even in its toddlerhood, Twitter is a more efficient supplier of the super-fresh Web than Google. If you're looking for interesting articles or sites devoted to Kobe Bryant, you search Google. If you're looking for interesting comments from your extended social network about the three-pointer Kobe just made 30 seconds ago, you go to Twitter.
    • Absolutely true for me. The ability to do real-time searches on topics is very valuable. - on 2009-06-06
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27 Apr 09

teachingwithprimarysources / Image Tips

Tips on how to use LIbrary of Congress images with VoiceThread.

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25 Feb 09

Top News - AASA hears what's about to disrupt schools

  • Until now, the providers of online instruction have catered primarily to areas of "non-consumption" in education, Christensen said, such as credit recovery, AP courses, and home-schooled or homebound students.
  • But that will change once online instruction reaches its tipping point--and if schools want to compete for these "customers" (their students), they should consider partnering with an online-learning provider or starting an online program of their own.
19 Dec 08

CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News

  • cumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in Minnesota's still unresolved U.S. Senate race, according to a running tally on

Top News - Four trends that could change everything

  • ur global economy features instant communication, rapid transportation, and computer-managed production. These elements signal the end of mass production as we've known it and herald what some have called the global dis-assembly line.
  • Nearly all the trends I've just described--and many others besides--rely on technology and on persons who understand technology. That, in turn, requires effective education.

Top News - Four trends that could change everything

  • Of course, it also will put vast power into the hands of those who run the server farms.
  • it could help us better understand the human condition and specifically how humans learn, which brings me to...

Top News - Four trends that could change everything

  • In 1993, Eric Schmidt, Google's current CEO, was the chief technology officer for Sun Microsystems. At the time, he made a prescient prediction. He said, "When the network becomes as fast as the microprocessor, the computer hollows out and spreads across the network." The company boiled Schmidt's prediction down to a memorable tagline: "The network is the computer."
  • you have what's called "software as a service
22 Nov 08

Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com

  • Just as in the TV cookoff contest “Iron Chef,” the Iron Editor must remix videos in real time in front of an audience while competing with other editors to demonstrate superior visual literacy.

Disney wants your child online: MMOs for tweens (and below): Page 2

  • MMORPG
  • "We don't expect everyone to pay," we're told. "They're valuable to us if they're playing: they love the franchise, they're living in the world. It's good for the Disney company to keep this brand on the radar."
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A Second Life for Middle School Science : March 2007 : THE Journal

  • they've collected only preliminary data so far on how well students are learning new concepts from them.
  • In fact, you don't have to call it a game. It's a 3D simulation of a scientific experiment."

Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT

  • What, exactly, constitutes a valid, original work? What are the implications for how we assess and reward creativity?
05 Nov 08

Technology Review: Untangling Web Information

  • Semantic Web technologies can set Twine apart from other social-networking sites
27 Sep 08

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em : August 2007 : THE Journal

  • One of the roles of education is to help students learn to
    socialize," says Karen Greenwood Henke, chair of the Emerging
    Technologies Committee at the Consortium for School
    Networking (CoSN),
  • It has given me a whole different relationship
    with my students," Messier says. "They
    can message me and it's private, or they'll
    e-mail me. It's like we are more of a community
    and I'm not just a teacher—I can be a
    friend at the same time."
20 Jun 08

Tools for the TEKS: Integrating Technology in the Classroom

  • One of the most basic and powerful ways to increase student motivation to write
    and communicate is to change student perceptions of audience.
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