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Surviving InfoWhelm: Information Fluency to the Rescue
Consider if you will the phenomenon of overwhelming information that the development of the Internet has presented us with. Try to imagine life before the fountain of knowledge threatened to waterlog...
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The Digital Wallet Is Starting to Take Shape
By Jared Newman @OneJaredNewman | August 30, 2012 http://techland.time.com Imagine if, in addition to all the things your smartphone does now, it could also act as your keys to the real world. Instead...
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TED Talks—Don Tapscott: Four Principles for the Open World
FILMED JUN 2012 • POSTED JUN 2012 • TEDGlobal 2012 www.ted.com The recent generations have been bathed in connecting technology from birth, says futurist Don Tapscott, and as a result the world is...
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Five Tips for New Teachers to Become Connected Educators
AUGUST 7, 2012 Lisa Michelle Dobbs http://www.edutopia.org This month, the U.S. Department of Education kicked off Connected Educator Month, with engaging keynotes, panel discussions, book chats, and...
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5 Student Projects That Just Might Transform City Life
August 29, 2012 by Lauren Drell http://mashable.com The Global Innovation Series is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. It delivers...
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Are Schools Prepared to Let Students BYOD?
By Peter DeWitt on August 26, 2012 2:43 PM http://blogs.edweek.org "Districts wading into the "bring-your-own-technology," or BYOT, waters are wrangling with which issues should be tackled through...
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Public Wants K-12 Schools More Flexible, Dynamic
The B.C. Education Plan — although it lacks the substance to be called a plan — has received about 5,000 responses By Janet Steffenhagen, Vancouver Sun August 20, 2012 Start classes later in the day,...
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Facebook Opens Up User Phone Numbers, Emails to Advertisers
Advertiser tool improvement in limited trials, opening up soon updated 07:14 pm EDT, Thu August 30, 2012 Facebook has announced plans to allow external marketers to mine new customers from the social...
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BII REPORT: Here's What Smartphone Users Are Doing With Their Phones
Business Insider | Aug. 27, 2012, 6:00 AM A decade ago, we used our mobile phones to make phone calls and perhaps to send text messages. Some advanced users checked their email and maybe did...
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Short Film ‘Sight’ Adds New Vision to Augmented Reality
August 25, 2012 by Nina Frazier http://mashable.com A new film called Sight successfully tackles the subject of augmented reality, commenting on the potential impact of this rising technology. In the...
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How Classroom Games Can Help Build Reasoning Skills
Webinar explores how basic games prompt students to think about problem-solving strategies August 29th, 2012 By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor www.eschoolnews.com While most students enjoy games, even...
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Why Do We Have to Learn This? Making Content Relevant
Glen Lineberry, High School Teacher Posted: 09/04/2012 11:35 am www.huffingtonpost.com We're well into the school year now, and into real content in my classes -- delving into Article I of the...
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Seeking Student Vitality: Looking at the Words of Joseph Campbell
Perhaps one of the greatest authorities on the diversity of the experience of "being human" was Joseph Campbell. A mythologist and celebrated author of the classics The Masks of God and The Hero with...
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Digital Citizenship—Alberta Style
Alberta Education (Canada) has published a development guide for Digital Citizenship Policy. This is an extensive document which includes both some of my work and that of my esteemed colleague Dr...
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School Gardens Blooming Teach Lessons On Nutrition, Environment, Science,...
By JAMIE STENGLE 08/21/12 01:46 PM ET www.huffingtonpost.com Gathered in the large garden behind an elementary school here, a group of kindergartners watched as their teacher snipped some basil, let...
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Back to School Toolkit for Working Parents
Meryl Ain, Ed.D. Your Education Doctor Posted: 08/24/2012 12:30 pm http://www.huffingtonpost.com It's the time of year when parents who have school-age children are in back-to-school mode. But not...
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