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“You won’t be carrying a calculator with you everywhere you go.” A friend of mine recalled his math teacher telling him that. I’m sure we’ve all heard this or even have said it before ourselves. However, this particular retelling came over twitter, posted from an iPhone, that he keeps with him everywhere he goes. While it is important to learn basic math skills, it’s also true that our tools are getting more portable as well as powerful.
A Calculator and Much More, In Your Pocket! | Sine of the Times
Tammy Worcester’s Tech Tip of the Week
Each week, Tammy will post a new tip -- a shortcut to use in PowerPoint, a cool web resource, or perhaps a new tool to try. Be sure to check back often!
Mark Walport speaks. Photo courtesy of Torsten Reimer “It’s a complete no-brainer,” said Sir Mark Walport. The director of the Wellcome Trust was responding to JISC’s Digital Infrastructure Directions report into the value and benefits of text and data mining, which recommends that the UK should create a copyright exception for text and data mining for non-commercial research. “It is critical that we enable researchers to maximise the value of publicly funded published outputs.
OER in the field: institutions solving problems openly : JISC
Last fall, I applied to Best Buy's "Best in Class" contest. This week, some representatives came to our school to present us with this giant gift card.
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To many people unfamiliar with Invisible Children, the Kony 2012 campaign looked like a brilliant example of “viral” media spread. The center of the campaign is a compelling 30-minute film where a father talks to his son about the evil practices of the Ugandan war lord Joseph Kony. The father makes it clear that his number one goal is to make Kony a household name in order to “raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.”
Today’s young people (8 to 18 year olds) spend on average 7 hours and 38 minutes a day with media: watching TV (TV, videos, DVDs, pre-recorded shows), playing video games, listening to music, talking on the phone, and chatting with friends online, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation report Generation-M2: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds released on January 20, 2010. This is an hour more than the group found in 2004, when young people were found to spend nearly 6 and half hours a day on entertainment media.
Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » The Medium is the Message: Educating Generation M
My name is danah boyd and I am a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research , a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School , a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center , and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales .
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42:20 minutes (9.69 MB) This is the first of three shows (#292 April 11, #294 April 25, #295 May 2) in which we are talking about Howard Rheingold's new book, Net Smart, How to Thrive Online . Howard joins us on Wednesday, May 2.
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Last week was a busy one at YIS . We had our first Digital Citizenship Week , with tons of great learning and reflection opportunities for our middle school students (more to come on this later), two meetings (Tues night & all day Saturday) of our YIS COETAIL cohort, and our #beyondlaptops mini-conference . Needless to say, by the time Sunday rolled around I was exhausted.
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Saturday was a terrific day at EdCampMe . It was a great chance to hang with some friends and chat about meaningful ways to educate children.dy/dan » Blog Archive » My Application Video For Apple’s Distinguished Educator Program
February 8th, 2011 by Dan Meyer[Mathematically proficient students] are able to analyze situations by breaking them into cases, and can recognize and use counterexamples.