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The Math of Khan, and the Wrath of Can't - etc : education, technology and culture
It's now official: Salman Kahn , of the Kahn Academy is a Very Bad Man. Why? Because he's become popular, as an educator, and he's not even a proper teacher
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What's Good For The Goose... - etc : education, technology and culture
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Digital Tools for Teachers: Create an eBook using free software
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Digital Tools for Teachers: Creating Digital Multimodal Texts
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The Nerdy Teacher: The @19Pencils Search Box #EdChat #ElemChat
Friday, 30 December 2011
My Daily Bookmarks 12/30/2011
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
My Daily Bookmarks 12/28/2011
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- From miura
MyThreeWords.com is a sentence sharing game. Three words start a sentence off. Players are then able to enter three words at a time to continue the story. Any number of people can play at once. A fullstop, question mark or exclamation mark will end the story.
All you need is a quick wit, fast fingers and some lightning fast connection! Are you any good?
MyThreeWords
- post by jane words
- From miura
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
My Daily Bookmarks 12/27/2011
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At the chalkface: How do you know when you've learnt something? - #change11
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The Innovative Educator: My 12 Most Favorite Ways Unschooling Rules
In his book Unschooling Rules, Clark Aldrich sets out to teach those who’ve been schooled, a thing or two about ed reform with insights and lessons from the world of homeschooling / unschooling.
Monday, 26 December 2011
My Daily Bookmarks 12/26/2011
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All My “Best Of 2011″ Lists In One Place | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
I’ve posted quite a few “Best Of 2011″ lists. And you can find links to all of them in this post.
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Android apps come in all shapes and sizes – literally
Sunday, 25 December 2011
My Daily Bookmarks 12/25/2011
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- Thanks this is great!! - post by cheryl capozzoli
- Looks nice ;-) - post by Vladimír Dědek
- Wow, this is awesome. I'm seeing this stream of comments from "My Network" area. - post by James Johnson
- Still has ads, but Diigo has to make their money, somehow. :-) - post by Jason Mock
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Using Diigo in the Classroom - Student Learning with Diigo
- World Yellow Pages for Higher Studies. Find University, Institute, Colleges world wide & talk business. Free Listing www.kezkostudy.com
- post by Shona Agarwal - Just wondering if my csv file was received... - post by Kenneth Jones
- Unless I am mistaken these lesson plans are not attached to standards or GLEs. It would be more helpful with these attachments. - post by Catherine Fulkerson
- World Yellow Pages for Higher Studies. Find University, Institute, Colleges world wide & talk business. Free Listing www.kezkostudy.com
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This simple tool has so many applications for education.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Thinglink - Make Your Blog Images Interactive
Saturday, 24 December 2011
My Daily Bookmarks 12/24/2011
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Text Mining Wikipedia for Misspelled Words — Jon's View
The author proposes that this consistent increase is the result of Wikipedia contributors using more complex language, which the test is unable to cope with. How do the results of this test compare to your own observations on the detail accuracy of massively crowd-sourced applications?"
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Berkeley Explains Why Google Trumps Microsoft | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
The University of California at Berkeley has chosen Google over Microsoft for its campus-wide email and calendar services, and it will tell you why — in great detail.
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Amazon Builds World's Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
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Free Technology for Teachers: Rubrics for Assessing Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts
In the collection you will find rubrics for assessing student blogging, student wikis, podcasts, and video projects. Beyond the rubrics for digital projects there are rubrics for activities that aren't necessarily digital in nature. For example, you can find rubrics for writing, research, and oral presentations.
Friday, 23 December 2011
My Daily Bookmarks 12/23/2011
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IT IS 40 years since American computer engineer Ray Tomlinson put the @ into email addresses, triggering a communications revolution that would forever change the way we correspond. Yet email now faces a mid-life crisis as young people turn to newer forms of communication, such as Facebook and Twitter.
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8 Social Media Strategies for Your Classroom | Getting Smart
Are you ready to bring social networking to your classroom? If you’re looking to make your classroom more relevant, connected, and meaningful to your students, it’s the best place to start. Study after study has confirmed the benefits of networking
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Life in a 21st-Century English Class | MindShift
It means my classroom is a place where my students spend time piecing together what they have learned, critically evaluating its larger purpose, and reflecting on their own learning. It also means my students don’t acquire knowledge just for the sake of acquiring it. They need to do something with it — that’s where “project-based” comes into play.
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Using Google Earth in the classroom | Google Earth Blog
Since the earliest days of Google Earth, many have viewed it as an amazing tool to use in the classroom - and they're right! We first showed some educational uses for Google Earth more than five years ago, and since then we've seen great uses from Duke University and StrataLogica, among others.
Thursday, 22 December 2011
My Daily Bookmarks 12/22/2011
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Welcome to App Inventor Edu | App Inventor Edu
Mobile applications are triggering a fundamental shift in the way people experience computing. Ten years ago, people "went to the computer" to perform tasks and access the Internet, and they used cell phones only to make calls. Today, smartphones have become computers in our pockets, serving our communication and information needs and making the web part of all that we do. Ten years ago, people’s use of computing was largely dissociated from real life. Today, with the ubiquity of social networking and pervasive communication, online and offline life are becoming fused.
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Presenter View: PowerPoint’s Secret Weapon for Speakers
Deep within PowerPoint lies a speaker’s secret weapon to smooth delivery: The Presenter View.
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31 Useful Google Blogs To Keep Yourself Up To Date
Without a doubt Google is one of the largest company in the technology industry and the largest influencer on the Internet. We use Google product and services on daily basis, and some us are depend on it so much that if any of the services are down, we become helpless
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The State Library of Queensland is collecting images from anyone and everyone to create the Flood and Cyclone Mosaic; an interactive collection of digital photographs that document and explore the disasters.
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These video tutorials introduce the basic concepts of modeling with Google SketchUp. Please note that these videos are narrated in English.
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Math Puzzles from Math Pickle, what an amazing site! « Technology Bits Bytes & Nibbles
Math Picklefeatures mathematics videos for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. The videos feature real students engaging in inspiring math problems and puzzles.
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Help Trilingual School Continue To Teach Compassion -- IndieGoGo
WISS Trilingual School is a small private elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia that originated in New York in 2004, for the purpose of teaching true cultural / linguistic appreciation to children.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Logotype Maker - Quickly Create Neat Logos
Logotype Maker is a free tool for creating your logos. It's quite simple to use. To create your logo just type in your name or a phrase and Logotype Maker will generate a random selection of logos based on your entry. You can refresh the screen as many times as you like to generate a new set of logos. If you find logos that you like, bookmark them and download them individually or as a complete set of PNG files. You can customize the size, color, and font style of your logos on Logotype Maker. You can also customize logos by uploading your own PNG image to be used in your logo.
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Some thoughts on creating a more ambitious vision for our schools < Richard Olsen
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Free Technology for Teachers: Interactive Biology - Videos and More
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Sunday, 4 December 2011
Thomas The Tankengine and #pencilchat - is it ok if you don't notice change?
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by dullhunk
So I was sitting there on a Sunday morning as tired as could be. Miss 2 hasn't quite grasped onto the concept of weekend sleep in's yet. I was up at 5:30am and feeling pretty tired. It was around 9:30am and Thomas The Tankengine came onto ABC4Kids. My two kids love this channel and it is an easy way for them to be entertained and be quiet. Mr 5 was into Thomas a little bit when he was younger but I think that I enjoyed it more. I used to love model trains when I was a kid and think that this is the reason that I loved watching the Fat Controller order those naughty trains around. But this morning, something blew my mind: Thomas started talking......then the Fat Controller did as well! This was anarchy! What the heck was going on? I asked "How long has this been going on for? Thomas shouldn't talk!" Mr 5 responded with "He talks now daddy sometimes." I didn't like this answer and it actually made me feel very uncomfortable. I liked Thomas how I liked him. Why did the change him? Were they changing him for change sake or was there a good reason behind it?
On Friday evening, as I was laying in bed, my twitter stream started to get taken over by something called #pencilchat. At first, I was very confused. Why were all of these people who I respected and followed to help increase my digital pedagogy going on about pencils? After about five minutes, I realsied that it was humorous and people were taking the 'micky' out of stuff. I then searched the tag and was amazed to find the volume of tweets being contributed around the world on this topic. Educators were going off. It was actually trending worldwide for a long time and it was a constant source of humour for me over the weekend.
So by now you are problary wondering what the heck I am going on about. #pencilchat started as a humours annecdote which went viral. Whilst people were happy sharing jokes etc, after about 18 hours, I came to a realisation - educators around the world are frustrated about the speed of change that is occuring. Then this morning after my Thomas episode, I thought to myself "Does it really matter if a change occurs and you don't notice it?" Thomas is still on the Island of Soundur and doing great, and my personal preferences towards the old Thomas shouldn't matter. He is happy and content with his change. I was upset at first because I felt that I was out of the loop in regards to the change. Nobody asked me from BBC my opinion on this change.
Then I started to think about my pedagogy and how it how changed. Some things have been a massive change whilst others I haven't even noticed. I am happy and hopefully doing a great job. This should be the main thing - I shouldn't be stressing about the fact that I didn't notice change occurring
Then I started to think about my pedagogy and how it how changed. Some things have been a massive change whilst others I haven't even noticed. I am happy and hopefully doing a great job. This should be the main thing - I shouldn't be stressing about the fact that I didn't notice change occurring
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