How Districts Create Community Connections with Social Media
By Dan Gordon 06/19/12 http://thejournal.com/articles These days you'd be hard-pressed to find a public school district anywhere in America that hasn't made technology an integral part of its strategy...
View Article90 Million Workers Won't Be Needed By 2020, Study Says
The Huffington Post By Bonnie Kavoussi Posted: 06/19/2012 9:45 pm Updated: 06/20/2012 3:26 pm Tens of millions of people worldwide will be condemned to long-term joblessness unless global leaders make...
View ArticleMy Favourite Google Search
My favorite Google search (this week) is: "digital citizenship" site:k12.*.us filetype:pdf. What's yours? I break down this search a little later. But first, some perspective. The new survival is not...
View ArticleDigital Stress and Your Brain
JUN 18, 2012 by Staff Writers www.onlineuniversities.com/blog
View ArticleiPads More Fragile Than Expected and Other Lessons From First Year of Zeeland...
Published: Thursday, June 14, 2012, 9:30 AM By Monica Scott www.mlive.com/news ZEELAND, MI – While issuing 1,800 iPads to students at Zeeland East and West eliminated the classic excuse that the dog...
View ArticleEnvisioning the Future of Education Technology
Why look at education? Education lies at a peculiar crossroad in society. On one hand it has the responsibility of anticipating real-life skills by preparing us for an increasingly complex world – but...
View ArticleDigital Citizenship and BYOD
My colleague Lee Crockett made a comment the other day about BYOD—Bring Your Own Device—and Digital Citizenship. He said that the heart of any BYOD program is digital citizenship. And he’s right. As...
View ArticleWhere Have All My CDs Gone?
It's a familiar scene being depicted in the picture above. Barren shelves line the walls of the former music section of the Fry's Electronics megastore in San Diego, CA. But you needn't travel all...
View Article6 Tips for the Successful Online Teacher
By Richard Rose 06/18/12 http://thejournal.com/articles In recent intake interviews with new students of education at West Texas A&M University, I found that teaching online is the new Holy Grail...
View ArticleThe Most Powerful Educational Experience I’ve Ever Had
I have been an educator for 32 years. Yet, to this day the most powerful experience I have ever had as a teacher was in the early 1980s. It involves otherwise juvenile alternative high school students...
View ArticleRay Kurzweil: As Humans and Computers Merge ... Immortality?
AIR DATE: July 10, 2012 www.pbs.org/newshour SUMMARY Paul Solman interviews inventor Ray Kurzweil, who predicts that advancing technology will result in augmented brains, memories recorded on "mind...
View Article4 Online Infographics Generators
Written by: Jonha Revesencio Written on: June 20, 2012 http://ijustdid.org Let’s face it, the infographics industry is exploding and now we’re seeing some new tools to help us easily create or...
View ArticleLeadership That Our Schools Need
Eric Sheninger Principal, New Milford High School Posted: 06/28/2012 10:47 am www.huffingtonpost.com As society, education, and learners change so does the need to have educational leaders who embody...
View ArticleWhat I've Learned About Learning
by Leo Babauta POSTED: 05.03.2012 http://zenhabits.net/learn/ ‘We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.’ ~Lloyd Alexander I...
View ArticleSamsung Tablets Not 'Cool' Enough to Infringe Apple Design, Says UK Judge
By Loek Essers IDG-News-Service:Amsterdam-Bureau Jul 9, 2012 11:00 am www.pcworld.com Samsung tablets do not infringe on a registered Apple design because "they are not as cool" and the Galaxy Tablets...
View ArticleGoogle Glass Team: ‘Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm’
By Steven Levy June 29, 2012 | 3:17 pm www.wired.com/gadgetlab Even though I followed Google’s I/O Conference from across the country, the event made it obvious that a company created with a strict...
View ArticleNielsen: Two-Thirds of New Mobile Buyers Get Smartphones
updated 07:59 pm EDT Thu July 12, 2012 www.electronista.com/articles Smartphones are now pretty clearly driving growth in the mobile phone market, according to new figures out from research group...
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