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Long, fancy words designed to show off your intelligence and vocabulary are all very well, but they aren't always the best words.The internet is a huge place but just how much information is passed each day? The following statistics should give you some idea of just how much information is being generated in a given day on the internet. Even if you thought the internet was big, likely these numbers will surprise you. Starting with email, in one day, there are more emails sent out that than a whole years worth of letter mail in the US. To do that, over 210 billion emails are sent out each day over the web. Of course emails aren’t the only content that is being transmitted.
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Education Week Teacher: Why I No Longer Use Groups in the Classroom
A recent New Yorker article entitled " Groupthink " takes a fascinating look at the concept of brainstorming.
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At a time when U.S. political and business leaders are raising concerns about the need to better nurture creativity and innovative thinking among young people, several states are exploring the development of an index that would gauge the extent to which schools provide opportunities to foster those qualities.
Education Week: States Mulling Creativity Indexes for Schools
South Africa's Education Department is printing math and science textbooks produced from such resources for use in grades 10 through 12. In the Netherlands, the Ministry of Education has developed a platform called Wikiwijs for employing open resources. Vietnamese educators are translating such resources and creating their own to build a repository available for their country's students.
Education Week: International Initiatives Fuel Growth of Open Ed. Content
Last year, Stanford University computer science professor Sebastian Thrun — also known as the fellow who helped build Google’s self-driving car — got together with a small group of Stanford colleagues and they impulsively decided to open their classes to the world.
Lessons and Legacies from Stanford’s Free Online Classes | MindShift
Teachers who resist using social media in the classroom are stripping their students of an essential component of their future success.
Social Media Belongs in the Classroom | Digital Citizenship in Schools | Scoop.it
1:12 PM 21st century teaching skills Med kharbach The 21st century has witnessed a stunning technological revolution touching every facet of our life.
Reasons Why Facebook is Revolutionizing Education
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Multitasking:This is your Brain on Media
Social Media in the Classroom | TeachHUB
I recently read a blog entry on the frustration that more teachers don't use social media in their classrooms. The writer, a recent college graduate, wondered why?
Photo: Document with Red Line by Dukeii (Editor's Note: The conversation and interest in the flipped class continues . . . From our very first post about this topic in January 2011 to date (3/30/12), The Daily Riff has received over 110,000 page views f which are linked below - extending to over 100 countries.
The Flipped Class Manifest - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.
After seeing the chart on of Bloom's Taxonomy on bloomsapps , I thought I could make a more thorough table. I like the headings that were used in the chart. Using new knowledge. Solve problems to new situations by applying acquired knowledge, facts, techniques and rules in a different way Questions like: Which kinds of apples are best for baking a pie, and why?
teachwithyouripad - Blooms Taxonomy with Apps
The United States has many lessons it can learn from how other countries are deploying virtual education and how it might partner up with those countries in different ways to offer a wider range of educational and cultural experiences to its students.
Education Week: Virtual World of Learning
Cambridge, Mass. - February 8, 2012 - Researchers at Harvard University have launched the Peer Instruction (PI) Network ( www.peerinstruction.net ), a new global social network for users of interactive teaching methods. PI, developed by Eric Mazur, Area Dean for Applied Physics and Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), is an innovative evidence-based pedagogy designed to improve student engagement and success.