11 hours ago by kmcleod

I entered this course feeling confident: confident that I teach in a district that is on the upswing of technology, confident that I am a recently graduated, technologically savvy young teacher; confident that I tackle technology challenges head on and look for ways to expand my classroom beyond the ...

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13 hours ago by Sensible City SM

Gadget-weary teachers rejoice. The new wireless Q7 Presenter Tablet from Qwizdom combines many tools onto one device. Use the tablet much like an interactive whiteboard, except do it wirelessly from the back of the classroom instead of with your back turned in the front. Send instructions and receiv ...

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14 hours ago by Eric Sorenson

Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has created a new device, called Storyplay, designed to allow grandparents to share the story book experience with their grandkids over the internet. Researchers at Nokia have teamed up with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop to develop Storyplay, a tool t ...

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23 hours ago by Scott McLeod

Here is the final leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Category winners are Chris Lehmann, Alan November, David Pogue, David Rose, and Karl Fisch. If votes from all categories were totaled, this would be the leaderboard: The top five - Chris Lehmann, Jeff Piontek, Gary ...

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1 day ago by Chris

Earlier today I saw this tweet from Mandie Engram (@ mandiengram) I responded by trying to find the answer myself. Having recently returned from the Google Teacher Academy in Washington, D.C. I sort of fancied myself a Google whiz. I was wrong. I simply could not find a ranking based on just our sta ...

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1 day ago by Andrew Cullison

UPDATE: All of the apps I list below are now annotated. I’ll annotate the other stuff later. UPDATE: I’ve now annotated all three sections, but now I realize a few of the items in the second section are redundant Some of my academic friends are starting to get Android phones. One my friends in the h ...

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2 days ago by Scott McLeod

Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, & Harry Lewis say… Exponential growth of anything can suddenly make the world look utterly different than it had been. When that threshold is passed, changes that are “just” quantitative can look qualitative. Another way of looking at the apprent abruptness of exponential gr ...

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2 days ago by Dcarter

Students who are blind, have low vision, or have a learning disability that requires computer-generated speech and highlighted text soon will have more resources after publisher Flat World Knowledge announced Dec. 14 that it will make its content available to Bookshare, the largest web-based library ...

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2 days ago

…continued. Yesterday I wrote about how boring my class was, how bored my students were and how bored I was teaching. This had a distinct impact on two dynamics in my classes that day. I felt the impact most strongly in the students’ behavior and my frustration. The two are correlated, as many of yo ...

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2 days ago by eduhowto

Found this resource today or yesterday can’t remember for sure just bookmarked it to look at later. Well Later has come and this is really a great site for students to get together and collaborate on assignments or projects. Students can join forums, groups and even blog about ideas and topics that ...

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