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Transparent, Flexible Memory Chips Could Replace Flash
By Ben Coxworth 16:54 April 2, 2012 ELECTRONICS www.gizmag.com A new type of transparent, flexible memory chip could replace flash memory in electronic devices (Photo via Shutterstock) According to...
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Teacher Fired over Trayvon Martin Fundraiser
Submitted by Alice Pettway on April 9, 2012 www.tolerance.org/blog What do you do with a teacher who provides students with authentic learning opportunities? A teacher who invests her own resources to...
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Ways to Use Facebook Effectively in Class
By Charlie Osborne April 2, 2012, 8:30am PDT www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration Summary: How to use Facebook as a classroom resource rather than a gimmick. Can social media be used effectively in class?...
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Misbehaving Pupils Ending Up in Court
By Nina Robinson BBC News, Texas 10 April 2012 Last updated at 19:38 ET Hundreds of US schools have police patrolling the playgrounds and corridors to keep order. But some believe their presence means...
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Jer Thorp: Make Data More Human
Jer Thorp works in the New York Times labs to design big data visualizations, and his great presentation from TEDxVancouver was just posted. Jer Thorp creates beautiful data visualizations to put...
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Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?
March 30, 2012 | 11:05 AM | By Tina Barseghian http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift Just a few years ago, the idea of using a mobile phone as a legitimate learning tool in school seemed far-fetched, if not...
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Infographic: What Happens Online in 60 Seconds?
By Leslie Horn December 27, 2011 04:13pm EST On the world wide web, things can move at a lightning-fast pace. In just a minute, you can probably read through and compose quite a few tweets and look at...
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All In A Day's Work—Episode No. 45: Lee Crockett, 21st Century Fluency Project
POSTED BY TEDBAUER2003 APRIL 26, 2012 If you are checking this out via iPad or other device and cannot see the audio player, click here to listen — or just go ahead and subscribe. You know you want...
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Porter: How a Toronto high school fights bullying without bullying — using...
By Catherine Porter Columnist Published On Mon Apr 23 2012 A week ago, two friends at Weston Collegiate Institute had an argument. One was a slip of a boy in Grade 9, his plaid shirt buttoned right to...
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You’re Listening To A Musical Instrument Made Of Jell-O
THERE REALLY IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR JELL-O. Mark Wilson 04/02/2012 www.fastcodesign.com As a species, we’ve sure put a lot of work into designing strange, noise-making implements that we pretend are...
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Susan Blackmore on Memes and "Temes"
Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself...
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Technology Integration Matrix
Explore the Technology Integration Matrix here About the TIM—from the site: What is the Technology Integration Matrix? The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use...
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TEACHERS: Children No Longer Need Facts Since They Have Smartphones
Graeme Paton, The Telegraph Apr. 4, 2012, 1:21 PM Children should no longer be expected to learn facts in the classroom because they can rely on smartphones as a “substantial” knowledge bank, it was...
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Eight Actions for Finding And Focusing Your Vision
The following are some practical action-steps for developing your vision and preparing to move with it into the future. 1. Think First about Your Past Leaders with the longest time horizons are those...
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More People Have Mobile Phones Than Electricity Or Drinking Water
Jay Yarow April 30, 2012 http://articles.businessinsider.com How big is mobile? Really big. This slide from analyst Chetan Sharma shows that mobile is the most pervasive technology ever invented. As...
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Why Khan Academy is So Popular—and Why Teachers Shouldn’t Feel Threatened
Founder Sal Khan discusses his nonprofit venture during NSBA’s annual conference April 23rd, 2012 From staff reports www.eschoolnews.com Sal Khan, whose online Khan Academy serves up video tutorials...
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Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement
BY HEATHER WOLPERT-GAWRON 4/26/12 A twelve-year teaching veteran and a California regional Teacher of the Year, Heather Wolpert-Gawron's musings on educational policy, curriculum design, and daily...
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The New Outsourcing: One Person at a Computer
RASHA MOURTADA Special to Globe and Mail Update Published Thursday, May. 03, 2012 5:00AM EDT Last updated Thursday, May. 03, 2012 10:38AM EDT Liam Martin, along with his partner Rob Rawson, has 50...
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Search Tip for Students: Try Predicting Your Search Results
May 1, 2012 | 9:41 AM By Tasha Bergson-Michelson http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift Just as having students predict answers to math problems is a way of creating more meaningful learning, prediction can...
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Are You a Facebook Addict? Take the Doctor-Designed Test
ADRIANA BARTON Globe and Mail Blog Posted on Monday, May 7, 2012 7:32PM EDT This is your brain on Facebook: You can’t stop thinking about uploading the latest photos of yourself and your compulsion to...
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