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The Tweet That Changed the Course of Irish Presidential Election Was 'Just A...
By PHILIP RYAN and WARREN SWORDS Last updated at 3:47 PM on 30th October 2011 It was the tweet that changed the outcome of the Presidential election – and the man who posted the bombshell message...
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By Embracing 'New Tech,' Manor School District Is Finding Success
By Melissa B. Taboada AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Five years after New Tech High School opened, graduation rates there have topped 97 percent. That's enough to convince Manor school district leaders that...
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Education Secretary Appeals for Financial Literacy, Planning Instruction in...
By Kenneth Corbin November 8, 2011 www.onwallstreet.com Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday urged a special advisory council to dig deep as it crafts recommendations for improving Americans'...
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iPads In Schools: 'The Last Generation With Backpacks'?
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt October 31, 2011: 4:30 AM ET In survey, 16% of school tech directors expect to have 1 tablet per student within 5 years Whether counting heads at the Apple Store or buttonholing...
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How People Learn About Their Local Community
by Tom Rosenstiel, Amy Mitchell, Kristen Purcell, Lee Rainie Sep 26, 2011 Overview While local TV news remains the most popular source for local information in America, adults rely on it primarily for...
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Perceptions Mixed On Kids And Digital Media
October 30, 2011 Eleanor Yang Su A majority of American parents say they are concerned that digital media is interfering with childhood development. Yet most do not think their own children spend too...
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RIP Compact Discs
by Stephen Abrams Posted on: November 5, 2011, 1:54 am Lordy, I remember when my early career depended on these things and glass masters were $2K! “Like 8-Tracks, cassettes and the vinyls that came...
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Visual Art as Critical Thinking
BY ANDREW MILLER 11/2/11 We've heard this story before. The first thing to go in budget cuts is the visual art program or another related art. Proponents of arts education counter with the usual...
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Microsoft Surface 2 Goes on Pre-Order
by Lance Ulanoff Mashable.com Microsoft Surface, the uber-cool, yet incredibly bulky technology that supports touch and device interaction was trimmed down earlier this year at CES 2011 to become the...
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Single-Molecule 'Electric Car' Taken For Test Drive
By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News 9 November 2011 Last updated at 13:00 ET Scientists have shown off what can be described as the world's smallest electric car - made of a...
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Americans and Text Messaging
by Aaron Smith Sep 19, 2011 OVERVIEW IMPORTANT NOTE: Several publications have reported that 31% of US adults prefer to be contacted via text message. In fact, this question was asked of cell phone...
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Teaching and Learning: Using iPads in the Classroom
BY BEN JOHNSON 10/31/11 If I had thirty iPads in my class, what would I do with them? How would I use them to help my students learn better and help me teach better? Perhaps a better question is what...
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Cain Camp Turns Google Searches to Its Benefit
November 9, 2011, 6:01 PM By JENNIFER PRESTON Searching Google for information about “Cain Sharon Bialek” and other keywords related to the sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain? Instead...
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Blooms and iPad Applications
I just got Tweeted a nice diagram showing iPad applications against different levels of Bloom’s revised taxonomy. It's a good and well-considered diagram and I like it. Some applications there that I...
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2011 Top 100 Tools List and Presentation Finalized
Yesterday, I finalised the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 list. In the last few days of voting there was a surge of contributions (both online and by email) that brought the number of contributions...
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Smartphones and Handheld Computers: The New Battleground in UK Schools
Experts say they are essential for the UK to keep pace economically; others worry about their effect on discipline Jessica Shepherd, education correspondent guardian.co.uk, Sunday 30 October 2011...
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How Cellphones Shape the Lives of College Students [INFOGRAPHIC]
October 31, 2011 by Zoe Fox The majority of college students today use smartphones — although three-quarters don’t foot their own bills. Not surprisingly, this has changed the classroom dynamic. Some...
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Facebook: Children Young As Seven 'Addicted To Social Networking'
Huffington Post UK Felicity Morse First Posted: 3/11/11 12:48 GMT Updated: 3/11/11 15:54 GMT Around 50% of seven to 12-year-olds use Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites every day,...
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Instructables—Make, How To, and DIY
I just spent way more time than I have absolutely riveted to this site: Instructables. As the name implies, it instructs readers, but not on how to know stuff, but on how to make stuff. In the virtual...
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BYOD and DC
From a administrative and financial aspect, BYOD makes sense. You don’t have to provide the students with either laptops, leases, or access to machines and the cost savings are brilliant. You do still...
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