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by John • iPad , News , Tools • Tags: apps on February 16, 2012 Since its release the iPad has garnered arguments regarding whether it is primarily a device for consumption or creation. I have always believed that it is a device capable of creation. One simply needs to consider apps such as Avid Studio , DemiBooks Composer , Pages , Keynote , Minecraft Pocket Edition , Art Rage , SketchBook Pro , Comic Life and many others. These and many other apps all allow the user to tap into their talents and produce output of which they can be proud. Of course the iPad is also a worthy consumption device.
Dark Side of the iPad ~ Collecting student projects is difficult! | John Larkin
I Yawning, I I and smearing my eyes with my fingers, I walked walked bleary eyed into the kitchen and made made myself boiled the kettle. filled the kettle filled the kettle with water and water, fresh water, water from the tap, making checking with my hands to make sure it was cold enough (). (The best tea comes from the coldest water). I glanced outside outside for a minute at the mist. city mist. mist. I could taste almost taste the grey.
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I just wanted to take a brief moment to thank every one of the readers of the Edudemic Magazine . You helped us just hit the 10,000 reader milestone! The launch of the magazine was a bit rocky but all the kinks have been ironed out and we’re truly firing on all cylinders right now.
Thank You. 10,000 Times. | Edudemic
Facebook in the classroom? What’s Camtasia? What about a Quizlet?
100 Teaching Tools You Should Know About | Edudemic
On a rainy night in late November, Robert Kyncl was in Google’s New York City offices, on Ninth Avenue, whiteboarding the future of TV. Kyncl holds a senior position at YouTube, which Google owns. He is the architect of the single largest cultural transformation in YouTube’s seven-year history. Wielding a black Magic Marker, he charted the big bang of channel expansion and audience fragmentation that has propelled television history so far, from the age of the three networks, each with a mass audience, to the hundreds of cable channels, each serving a niche audience—twenty-four-hour news, food, sports, weather, music—and on to the dawning age of Internet video, bringing channels by the tens of thousands. “People went from broad to narrow,” he said, “and we think they will continue to go that way—spend more and more time in the niches—because now the distribution landscape allows for more narrowness.”
Will Robert Kyncl and YouTube Revolutionize Television? : The New Yorker
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Ideas and resources for teaching students about standards of measurement. Ideas and resources for teaching students about standards of measurement, the metric system, conversions, temperatures, weights, volume and more!
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Last Friday, Salman Khan , founder of Khan Academy, and Stanford professors Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun sat down to answer questions asked by people around the world. Best of all, it happened in a Google+ Hangout and was recorded. That video was just made available so now you can watch the hangout if you missed it life. The title of the event was ‘Reinventing Education’ and the presenters talked about the future of online education, technology in education, and what has worked and not worked in their own virtual classrooms. Click here for more information on Google’s Edu YouTube channel . To watch the recording of the Google+ Hangout, just hit play on the video below.
Google+ Hangout With Sal Khan, Peter Norvig, and Sebastian Thrun Now Available | Edudemic
The Gamification of Education: What School Can Learn from Video Games
In this Edutopia blog post, educator Terrell Heick presents the evolution of gaming, from its beginning as a stand-alone experience to the current state of social gaming. He then looks at the gamified curriculum as an effective, engaging education tool for which “possible pathways are infinite, passivity is murdered, and performance is transparent to all stakeholders.”
The popularity of video games is not the enemy of education, but rather a model for best teaching strategies. Games insert players at their achievable challenge level and reward player effort and practice with acknowledgement of incremental goal progress , not just final product. The fuel for this process is the pleasure experience related to the release of dopamine . Dopamine Motivation
A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool | Edutopia
Earth has been around for awhile. So have humans. Or have we? According to this fascinating new picture I stumbled across on Google+ (via Ahmed Zeeshan ), humans would only represent, wait for it, 1 minute and 17 seconds if the entire Earth’s history was viewed as a 24 hour period. Takeaways: meteorites spent a lot of time bombarding our planet; the Earth took awhile to actually form; coal swamps (seriously, coal swamps?) and basically everything else on the planet, including the planet itself, has been around far longer than human life.
If Earth’s Entire History Was Just 24 Hours Long | Edudemic
Course: Beginning Gaming Educator's Toolkit
During the process of developing a game design course it will be important to discuss the challenges you are facing with peers. You may be luck enough to have someone on your own campus or you may need to connect with peers who live far away. TexasGames.net is one example of a community of educators working together to help each other provide a superior experience to the students they serve.If Twitter really does reach the far recesses of the earth, then doesn't it make sense for us to harness that diversity of opinions? We've seen the effects of Twitter on emergency aid, nonprofit fundraising and political outreach. However, if we just want to crowdsource a simple question like "Which of these 3 movies should I see?" or "Which of these is your favorite blogging platform?" a simple poll would suffice.