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Reading, Writing, Tweeting
In Glen Ellyn, first-graders get a taste of social media By Michelle Manchir, Chicago Tribune reporter February 28, 2012 When Ed Knight wants to find out what his 6-year-old did in school, he can...
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Tallest Tower Challenge—Highland Park ISD
To start the engineering unit, I decided to use an activity that we did during one of Lee Crockett’s sessions. The previous day, the warm up asked students what they thought engineering was, and many...
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Bright Spots Shine in Blended, Online Learning
By Michael B. Horn 03/01/2012 http://educationnext.org A month has passed since the first-ever national Digital Learning Day. Given the excitement generated from teachers and others tuning in to the...
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Josh Ritter's 'Love Is Making Its Way Back Home' Uses 12,000 Pieces Of Paper...
First Posted: 03/ 2/2012 11:03 am Updated: 03/ 2/2012 6:17 pm www.huffingtonpost.com 12,000 pieces of paper were strung together to make the newest video for Josh Ritter's "Love is Making its Way Back...
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Facebook's 'Dark Side': Study Finds Link to Socially Aggressive Narcissism
Psychology paper finds Facebook and other social media offer platform for obsessions with self-image and shallow friendships Damien Pearse guardian.co.uk, Saturday 17 March 2012 13.41 GMT Too many...
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Fear And Self-Loathing In The Classroom
by William Johnson, at 12:43 pm MARCH 19, 2012 http://gothamschools.org Earlier this month, my ninth-graders read the balcony scene from “Romeo and Juliet.” Whenever I teach Shakespeare, I like to...
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How Our Mobiles Became Frankenstein's Monster
By Andrew Keen, Special to CNN updated 5:31 AM EST, Tue February 28, 2012 As always, Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile telephone extravaganza, is being held in Barcelona this year. But...
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25 Awesome Mac Apps For Designers
Apple products with Mac OS X operating system are quite popular among designers and digital artists. So today I have collected 25 awesome apps for designing purposes. Mostly of them are for processing...
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15 Big Ways the Internet is Changing Our Brain
January 9, 2012 With much of human knowledge now our fingertips, the Internet is rewiring our brains in various ways, Online College finds: The Internet is our external hard drive Children are...
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50 (Mostly) Free Social Media Tools You Can’t Live Without in 2012
A couple years ago, Jay Baer wrote a great blog post called ‘The 39 social media tools I’ll use today’ which was an all-in-one toolkit for social media marketers (and still is). A lot has changed in...
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12 Ways to Be More Search Savvy
December 27, 2011 | 8:00 AM | By Tina Barseghian Google has made it possible for us to have instant information gratification. Just start typing the first letters of your search word and the site...
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DIY Kit Overclocks Your Brain With Direct Current - Technology Review
From fright to right. As with genetic engineering and robots taking jobs away from humans, we will be horrified at first. Shortly thereafter, as we watch others use brain stimulators to speed up their...
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Elaborate Life-like Pencil Sculptures
Posted by Katie Hosmer on February 28, 2012 at 11:56am These pencil sculptures are so incredible and life-like! I half expect the sea urchin-inspired forms to stretch out and crawl away. Jennifer...
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ADHD Diagnosis More Likely for Kids Born Later in the Year: Study
CARLY WEEKS AND KATE HAMMER Globe and Mail Update Published Monday, Mar. 05, 2012 12:45PM EST Last updated Tuesday, Mar. 06, 2012 11:04PM EST Researchers in British Columbia have discovered that...
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Critical Thinking: A Necessary Skill in the Age of Spin
BY G. RANDY KASTEN 3/2/12 G. Randy Kasten is an attorney and author of Just Trust Me: Finding the Truth in a World of Spin. He previously worked with third through eighth graders in a public school...
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Students Want Social Media in Schools
January 2, 2012 | 1:40 PM | By Tina Barseghian In its Policy Priorities report, Can Social Media and School Policies be “Friends,” ASCD provides a state-of-the union on social media use in schools....
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What In The?!: INSANE Posed Ant Photography
March 16, 2012 www.geekologie.com Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov takes insane macro pictures of LIVE ants by spending hours and hours playing with them and posing them to get the perfect shot....
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