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The Future of Money in a Mobile Age
by Aaron Smith, Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie Apr 17, 2012 http://pewinternet.org/Reports OVERVIEW Within the next decade, smart-device swiping will have gained mainstream acceptance as a method of...
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This Is How Big the Internet Is
BY KYLE WAGNER MAY 30, 2012 2:22 PM http://gizmodo.com The internet is a big and amorphous thing to talk about. What's it made of? Web pages? Articles? Facebook? Stuff you can blow up? How about just...
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New Site Offers a Whole New Approach to Online Safety
June 15th, 2012 www.eclassroomnews.com Child predators, cyber bullying, and untrustworthy teachers are just some of the internet scandals often discussed on the news concerning youth and online...
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Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking
Published on December 2, 2011 by Michael Michalko in Creative Thinkering 1. You are creative. The artist is not a special person, each one of us is a special kind of artist. Every one of us is born a...
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10 TED Talks That Could Be Used As Course Titles
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 9:46 am Posted by Jeff Dunn http://edudemic.com I was perusing my morning Twitter stream and came across a few friends discussing the current state of course titles. Long...
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The Eyes Have It: Marketers Now Track Shoppers' Retinas
More Accurate Technology Helps Firms Discern What Draws Consumers Business Technology Updated July 12, 2012, 2:01 p.m. ET By EMILY GLAZER http://online.wsj.com/article Consumer-products companies are...
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West Virginia Funds ‘Exergaming’ Systems for Schools
June 15th, 2012 From wire service reports www.eschoolnews.com State officials in West Virginia have spent $90,000 on 286 new video game systems in the hope the machines can be used to motivate 21st...
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Some Teens Aren’t Liking Facebook as Much as Older Users
May 31st, 2012 www.eclassroomnews.com For teens, it has been an essential rite of passage: They turn 13 and join Facebook. Since she signed up three years ago, friend requests and status updates are...
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Bookpocalypse: Adult Fiction eBook Sales Now Greater Than Hardcover Revenue
JOHN BIGGS http://techcrunch.com If you couldn’t tell from the massive e-sales of a tale about a young lady who loves to love the wrong man, ebooks are massively popular, doubling in 2011 to...
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Why Students Should Learn to Write for the Public
July 2, 2012 | 2:00 PM | By MindShift “Writing is a public act,” says New York teacher Ileana Jimenez, who encourages her students to blog. Rather than having them write a paper and hand it in only...
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More Than Half of Americans Fiddle With Phones While Watching TV
Consider carefully the message in the following article by Francis Bea for Digital Trends. Wherever we are, whatever we are doing, our cell is on and close by—always on, always on us, as Sherry Turkle...
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How Tablets are Changing Assistive Technology
June 14th, 2012 www.eclassroomnews.com Tynesha Murray wears white skinny jeans and a pink tube top with gold sandals. She smiles while typing vigorously on her iPad in response to a question about her...
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Financial Literacy Brings Relevance for All Ages
BY MARIKO NOBORI www.edutopia.org "Who remembers the sign for 'needs?'" a teacher asks a class of first graders. Little hands shoot up to form peaked roofs over their heads. "Right! And how about the...
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China College Entrance Exam, Gaokao, Being Reconsidered
The Huffington Post By Gregory Kristof Posted: 07/03/2012 12:49 pm Updated: 07/03/2012 12:49 pm Standardized testing is no foreigner to education -- both in the United States and abroad. But while the...
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In Support of the Whole Child
Sean Slade Director, Whole Child Programs at ASCD Posted: 07/03/2012 4:02 pm www.huffingtonpost.com This is a joint posting by 13 Huffington Post Education, Parenting and Health bloggers: Martin J....
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Nancy Lublin: Texting That Saves Lives
FILMED FEB 2012 POSTED APR 2012 TED2012 When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking -- they started texting back about their...
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Journal Edited by People With Learning Disabilities Provides World First
by DAN PARTON (EDITOR) on JULY 3, 2012 in NEWS www.ldtonline.co.uk A journal has been published that contains articles edited and peer reviewed by people with learning disabilities – said to be a...
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New Program Prepares Educators for Blended Learning
July 11th, 2012 By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor www.eschoolnews.com Many brick-and-mortar schools want to incorporate more online instruction—but how should teachers prepare for the newly popular...
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High School Students Want More Tech, Fewer Lectures
By Katie Ash on July 9, 2012 4:08 PM http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation High school students in the U.S. want more technology in classrooms, as well as more hands-on projects and...
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