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How to Choose the Right Words for Best Search Results
February 21, 2012 | 8:33 AM By Tasha Bergson-Michelson http://mindshift.kqed.org Dear Savvy Searcher, My students keep wanting to enter their entire research question into the search bar. I keep...
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When the Internet Goes Down: Banning Technology
By Peter DeWitt February 20, 2012 12:24 PM http://blogs.edweek.org A few weeks ago I grabbed my trusty notebook off my desk and walked into a classroom to do a teacher observation. As I sat at the...
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Digital Revolution Changing Lives of Students with Disabilities
February 27th, 2012 From wire service reports www.eschoolnews.com Kyle Beasley is a smart second-grader with an infectious grin. He’s also functionally blind. Until last fall, the 7-year-old used...
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Tablets Replacing TV, Teachers and Babysitters: Nielsen
AFP Relax News – Fri, Feb 17, 2012 Need a way to keep your kids quiet while traveling, entertained at a restaurant or just want to teach them some facts? More and more parents are letting their kids...
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Future of eReading: Following Your Eyes?
June 17th, 2010 By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor www.eschoolnews.com As eReading devices and the software that runs them become more advanced in an increasingly competitive market, researchers are...
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Seth Godin's "Stop Stealing Dreams"
Download "Stop Stealing Dreams" From the manifesto "Stop Stealing Dreams" by Seth Godin: 131. How to fix school in twenty-four hours Don’t wait for it. Pick yourself. Teach yourself. Motivate your...
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Epic Auto Correct Fail: Schools Lock Down Over Texting Mix-Up [VIDEO]
by Mashable Video http://mashable.com Is this the biggest auto correct fail ever? Middle schools and high schools in Gainesville, Ga. were locked down Wednesday when a student’s text message — “gunman...
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Millennials Will Benefit and Suffer Due To Their Hyperconnected Lives
REPORT: FUTURE OF THE INTERNET by Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie Feb 29, 2012 OVERVIEW Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will...
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Student’s Guide to Health and Fitness
Posted on Thursday February 16, 2012 by Staff Writers www.bestcollegesonline.com
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More Than Half Of Older High School Dropouts Not Employed Today
The Huffington Post | By Alexander Eichler Posted: 02/21/12 01:33 PM ET | Updated: 02/21/12 07:24 PM ET You know the old advice about staying in school so you can get a job? It's more true now than...
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Study Claims iPad Helps Rise in Literacy for Kindergarteners
A study conducted in Auburn, Maine suggests that the iPad may be able to improve literacy rates among kindergarten students, notes The Loop. The Auburn School Department recently assigned iPads to...
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Texting Affects Ability to Interpret Words
ScienceDaily (Feb. 16, 2012) Research designed to understand the effect of text messaging on language found that texting has a negative impact on people's linguistic ability to interpret and accept...
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Infographic—Games and Education
This is an interesting Infographic looking at Games and education. I found the post here at www.knewton.com. I think we are going to see the use of games in a learning context increase. If we consider...
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Kinect Applications
Throughout my time investigating the SDK, I have managed to build up a library of Kinect Applications. I realise that some of these have been way back in June and In order for you to find them it...
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Career of the Future: Data Scientist [INFOGRAPHIC]
January 13, 2012 by Chris Taylor http://mashable.com Want a job where the talent is scarce — and likely to remain that way for at least the next five years? Become a data scientist. That, at least, is...
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How to Ask a Smart Question
By S. Snyder (Last revised:11/19/03) I can almost guarantee that at some point in your education a teacher has stood before you and in a self-satisfied tone said, "There are no dumb questions in this...
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9 Ways Mobile is Moving into Academia
Posted on Sunday January 1, 2012 by Staff Writers www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog Mobile phones are ubiquitous among students, both in college and K-12. And while some schools shun the use of cell...
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Goldman To Fire Employees Who Can Be Replaced By Technology, Miss Performance...
Posted: 03/19/2012 4:49 pm Updated: 03/19/2012 6:12 pm www.huffingtonpost.com By Lauren Tara LaCapra March 19 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc has begun a new round of staff cuts in its trading and...
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iTunes Producer Is Now Available Through Software Update, Is iTunes Going Indie?
iTunes Producer is usually reserved for big shot label moguls, but right now, you can play with it too. John Brownlee (8:34 am PDT, Mar 20) /www.cultofmac.com Indie musicians have long had a difficult...
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