Disruptive Innovation Explained
5:21 PM Tuesday March 6, 2012 http://blogs.hbr.org/video Clay Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and the world's most influential management guru according to the Thinkers50, lays out his...
View ArticleBeam Me Up Scotty: Life-Size Hologram-Like Telepods Revolutionize...
Professor Roel Vertegaal’s Star Trek-like 3d cylindrical display is probably as close to teleportation as we will ever get. A Queen's University researcher has created a Star Trek-like human-scale...
View ArticleBook Review—Understanding the Digital Generation
www.nacada.ksu.edu Review By: Douglas A. Smith Academic Advisor, College of Education, Adult and Post-Secondary Education University of Wyoming Societal changes have generated new expectations for...
View ArticleReinventing Education To Teach Creativity And Entrepreneurship
WRITTEN BY: Jennifer Medbery www.fastcoexist.com We don’t need to memorize things any more, but we still need teachers to guide our students toward learning the best ways to problem solve. The...
View ArticleThey’ve Got Your Numbers
I want to share with you this Boston Globe article below, written by Beth Teitell. There are a few reasons why I feel what she outlines here is important to consider. I teach for the Fielding Graduate...
View ArticleJust-in-time Information through Mobile Connections
by Lee Rainie, Susannah Fox May 7, 2012 http://pewinternet.org/Reports OVERVIEW The rapid adoption of cell phones and, especially, the spread of internet-connected smartphones are changing people’s...
View Article15 Educational Experiences My Granddaughter Won't Have—The Blue Skunk Blog
Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 07:07AM by Doug Johnson http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog Avram Piltch identifies "15 Technologies My Newborn Son Won't Use" in a recent Gizmodo/Laptop...
View ArticleHow Has Internet Changed Education?
RANDY | MONDAY, MAY 7, 2012 AT 7:15AM www.coolinfographics.com/blog How has internet changed education infographic from SEO.com explores what kind of impact the Internet has on education. Ever had a...
View ArticleWould I Build a Library?
If I had a green fields school, would I build a library? The answer is absolutely YES, but what would it look like and function like? Well, to answer that question I would look at the characteristics...
View ArticleIt's Time for a New Kind of High School
Published Online: May 8, 2012 Published in Print: May 9, 2012, as It's Time for a New Kind of High School By Jerry Y. Diakiw www.edweek.org Our high schools are relics of the past. Based on an...
View ArticleAntikythera Mechanism: New Light Shed On The 'World's Oldest Computer' (VIDEO)
Posted: 05/12/2012 11:41 am Updated: 05/13/2012 1:25 am www.huffingtonpost.com A new BBC Four special follows an international team of scientists trying to unlock the mysteries of the Antikythera...
View ArticleHow the Blind Are Reinventing the iPhone
At first many blind people thought that the iPhone would never be accessible to them, with its flat glass screen. But the opposite has proved true. MAY 2 2012, 11:10 AM ET by LIAT KORNOWSKI...
View ArticleIlliteracy in America: INFOGRAPHIC
By Jason Boog on May 7, 2012 10:00 AM www.mediabistro.com Exactly how big is America’s illiteracy problem? The Understanding Illiteracy infographic will help you actually see the scope of the problem....
View ArticleBriefly: Seventh Grade iBook, Pulp, 6M Minecraft Sold
Seventh graders publish North FL field guide on iBookstore updated 06:32 pm EDT, Sat May 26, 2012 By Electronista Staff www.electronista.com The seventh graders of Woodlawn Beach Middle School's...
View ArticleSowing Failure, Reaping Success: What Failure Can Teach
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK and KATHERINE SCHULTEN May 7, 2012, 3:32 PM http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com We pose these questions for students to answer as part of thinking about the broad theme of...
View ArticleShould Kindergarteners Use iPads in the Classroom?
May 7, 2012 By Sarah Rich www.govtech.com Much like with toy cellphones, kitchenware and hardware tools, children under a certain age once played with toy computers to simulate the experience of...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Slacktivist
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View Article12 Reasons to Get Your School District Tweeting This Summer by @joe_mazza
Added by @joe_mazza on May 18, 2012 http://blog.teachercast.net Everyone is on Twitter these days, so why not your school district? Twitter provides an easy platform to keep your followers updated —...
View ArticleHow Teachers Make Cell Phones Work in the Classroom
May 10, 2012 | 1:23 PM | By Tina Barseghian http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift When we talk about using cell phones in class, we’re not just talking about using cell phones in class. The idea of mobile...
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