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Eight Layers — C O N T E N T ious. Each consumer’s content habit is its own, unique TV dinner… If we think about the consumption of information as a kind of content “diet”, this dimension represents the food groups.

Eight Layers — C O N T E N T ious

Each consumer’s content habit is its own, unique TV dinner, where some mix of news, sports, lifestyle, educational and entertainment content (scripted or not) comes together to “nourish” and satisfy. Genre is unique within these eight layers because it’s the only dimension where some expansion across isn’t necessarily advisable to future-proof the offering. Purveyors of sports should stick to sports.

Likewise for music, scripted fiction, etc. Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers. Michelle Luhtala/Edshelf With the thousands of educational apps vying for the attention of busy teachers, it can be hard to sift for the gold.

Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers

Michelle Luhtala, a savvy librarian from New Canaan High School in Connecticut has crowd-sourced the best, most extensive list of apps voted on by educators around the country. “I wanted to make sure we had some flexibility because there’s no one app that’s better than all the others,” Luhtala said. Technology in Education Websites. Libraries.claremont.edu/informationliteracy/documents/CCL_Information_Literacy_Rubric_v2013-2014.pdf. Cram.com: Create and Share Online Flashcards.

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Tiffany Della Vedova entered the social media universe gradually.

Meet Your New PD Tool

She started with ASCD EDge, an online community of some 33,000 administrators and educators where she still regularly blogs. "I had been reading their publications and blog. And I thought, I'm going to join the conversation. I started blogging and reading other people's blogs. I think people gravitate toward the places that offer them their best human connection. " Then she began following people from EDge on Twitter, and once she got the hang of it, a whole new world opened up.

She did so simply by posting questions on Twitter, appending a relevant hashtag, and waiting to see what she got. Della Vedova is the academic dean of the Grandview Preparatory School in Boca Raton, Florida. But even for her, the breadth of information she's found by way of Twitter is mind-boggling. At first glance, Twitter doesn't seem like the place to gather information on how to run a school or craft a curriculum. Technology Solutions for Education Leaders from Scholastic Administrator. Tech Skill Tutorials. DigitalLearn.org. Social-media-higher-ed.jpg (JPEG Image, 760 × 2907 pixels)

Common Craft. Serendip-o-matic: Let Your Sources Surprise You. Digital Learning Now. Distance and Blended Learning: Technology in the Classroom on the Rise. Rotational… Flex… Self-blended… Enriched-virtual… What are these terms describing?

Distance and Blended Learning: Technology in the Classroom on the Rise

Apps? Cars? New types of virtual gaming? Actually, these terms describe a nascent form of learning referred to as blended learning or hybrid learning. Indeed, a 2011 report by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) indicates that blended learning is on the rise and being used more than online learning in some countries around the world. But wait… aren’t blended learning and online learning the same? To more fully envision blended learning, imagine a continuum that puts brick-and-mortar schools at one end and fully-online programs at the other. Source: Online and Blended Learning: A Survey of Policy and Practice of K-12 Schools Around the World, International Association for K-12 Online Learning, November 2011 [PDF] For a list of complete sources, please view the infographic.

15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World. Using games for purposes other than entertainment is nothing new.

15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World

There are war games, educational games, throne games. But a new class of games has sprung up in recent years, designed to create awareness and raise support for a variety of global issues. Such serious games seek to harness the power of competition and/or novelty to attract players and get the word out for a good cause. Here are 15 games you can play and be a better person for it. Catalysts for Change: On April 3, 2012, Catalysts for Change went live online for 48 hours. A Closed World: Game designers in Singapore created this game because of the shortage of content concerning LGBT issues.

Howard Rheingold on how the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills. Howard Rheingold isn’t too concerned about whether Google is making us stupid or if Facebook is making us lonely.

Howard Rheingold on how the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills

Those kind of criticisms, Rheingold says, miscalculate the ability humans have to change their behavior, particularly when it comes to how we use social media and the Internet more broadly. “If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool,” Rheingold said Thursday. Rheingold was visiting the MIT Media Lab to talk about his new book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, which examines how people can use the Internet not just to better themselves, but also society as a whole.

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