Jacques Cool's List: ACPI 2014 Conference

• Possible intergenerational tension.An insurance company predicts enterprises facing challenges managing both Millenials and seniors working past retirement age.
• The number of international high school students is rising.
• Colorado project3d prints texture-heavybooks intended for blind children.
• While PC sales are dropping more slowly than last year, Gartner predicts they will be outpaced by tablets within one year.Mobile phone sales massively exceed both
• Google and Novartis agreed to develop contact lenses with wireless sensorcapabilities.
• Facebook claimed 829 million daily active users and 1.3 billion monthly users.
• Amazon announceda Kindle ebook rental service, modeled on the Netflix streaming movie service
• he Associated Press is trialing the use of computer programs to write some newspaper storiesin the business area
• A new form of microchip construction, directed self-assembly, may allow manufacturers to continue cramming more processing power and memory into smaller spaces
• One university reports good results in sending daily support messages to students via mobile phones.
• Publisher Houghton Mifflin launched a learning management system, only accessible by iPad and Google Chromebook devices
• n educational gaming association launched.
• Many federal offices are running crowdsourcing initiatives to help with operational challenges
• no new developments during this month.

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• When I use the word “blogging”, I am NOT seeing :

   
   
  • technology
   
  • a project
   
  • an add-on to the curriculum content.
   
   

  When I use the word “blogging”, I am seeing:

   
   
  • learning how to read and write in digital spaces
   
  • the possibility of writing for an authentic global audience
   
  • a platform for reflection, investigation, documentation and curation
   
  • a platform that supports and amplifies modern skills and literacies

• Make It Social
• Make It Meaningful
• Make It Fun

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• The growth mindset recognizes that things like creativity, intelligence, and problem-solving are all skills that can be continually improved upon.

• As a form of "disruptive innovation," you can tinker with school itself -- and certainly progressive schools are doing this.

• “Reading comprehension research with multi-touch devices is still in its infancy and students will need to adapt new reading strategies in order to maximize their learning in this environment.”
• “The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment,”
• Maybe new note-taking skills require nothing more than a shift in perspective.
• giving students the “ability to talk to the text, to create an internal dialogue with the text,” is the best way to help students understand what they’re reading

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