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Seven Digital Learning Tips for Students
BY HEATHER WOLPERT-GAWRON 2/1/12 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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Generation Y Works by Different Set of Rules
POSTMEDIA NEWS FEBRUARY 4, 2012 www.vancouversun.com When it comes to recruiting and retaining Generation Y, employers need to use different methods than what worked for previous generations. “There...
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Virtual Reality Contact Lenses May Exist By 2014
By: Charles Q. Choi InnovationNewsDaily Contributor Published: 02/02/2012 02:34 PM EST on InnovationNewsDaily Contact lenses that help enhance normal vision with megapixel 3D panoramic images are...
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The Touch-Screen Classroom
by Kate Lunau Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:30am At Eden High School in St. Catharines, Ont., students are banned from using their cellphones in the hallways. In Eric Moccio’s classroom, it’s a...
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Study: U.S. Gaming Population Has Nearly Tripled in Three Years
February 8, 2012 12:43 AM Stefanie Fogel The number of people playing video games in the U.S. has risen 241 percent since 2008, according to a new study from market research and consulting company...
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The Challenge of Teaching Higher-Order Skills
By Stephen Sawchuk on February 9, 2012 11:46 AM Could teacher evaluations begin to offer us the best portrait yet of what instruction actually looks like in America's classrooms? And what changes...
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Global Digital Citizen—The Role of the Teacher
Technology is increasingly pervasive in all aspects of teaching and learning, whether it is the kindergarden student using the gesture-based systems like the iPad to enhance their learning and to...
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5 Free Homework Management Tools for the Digital Student
January 09, 2012 by Amy Burke 1. iProcrastinate This tool is useful for organizing to-do lists and tasks you deem most important. Syncing from your computer to your iPad or iPhone, this paperless...
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'Failure Week' at Top Girls' School to Build Resilience
By Judith Burns Education reporter, BBC News 4 February 2012 A top girls' school is planning a "failure week" to teach pupils to embrace risk, build resilience and learn from their mistakes. The...
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A First-Hand Look Inside a Flipped Classroom
Global open house exposes the 'flipped learning' approach to the public February 9th, 2012 By Meris Stansbury, Online Editor There have been many school reform trends over the past few years: student...
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Miami-Dade School Board Moves to Develop a Social Media Policy
The Miami-Dade School Board gave the green light at its Wednesday meeting to research and develop a social media use policy for the school district. BY LAURA FIGUEROA LFIGUEROA@MIAMIHERALD.COM Posted...
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Can a Smartphone Sense Depression?
New smartphone technology called Mobilyze is being developed to make personal mood assessments and help people stave off depression. by Dara Kerr February 8, 2012 7:51 PM PST New smartphone technology...
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Tic Tac Launches Augmented Reality-Enabled Times Square Billboards
February 14, 2012 by Todd Wasserman http://mashable.com Tic Tac is the latest major brand to embrace augmented reality, and it is doing so in a big way: With three billboards in New York’s Times...
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How to Ruin Your Life in 14 Minutes: Or Why We Need a Serious Conversation...
David McMillan Posted: 02/23/2012 4:44 pm www.huffingtonpost.com Recently, two teenage girls in Gainesville, Florida made a video (note: NSFW) in which they spewed a truckload of racist comments. They...
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Adolescents—Those I Teach, Those I Know
SAT FEB 18, 2012 AT 04:30 AM PST by teacherken www.dailykos.com Adolescents—those I teach, and those I know—are very much on my mind this Saturday morning. I was supposed to be in Chicago for an...
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Skitterbot Invasion at Bradfield Elementary—Activity from HPISD Teacher
Thank you so much for giving me a ”starter” Skitterbot. They have since multiplied in number creating a great lesson for my students. The Skitterbots invaded the Bradfield Explorations room. As an...
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2012 Horizon Report
View the All-New Educause 2012 Horizon Report The annual Horizon Report has been published by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the New Media Consortium (NMC). It profiles six new and...
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Seven Standards for Effective Professional Development
Conference presenter Stephanie Hirsch says collaborative teamwork among teachers is a key to 21st-century student achievement By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor February 18th, 2012 Terms like “work...
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