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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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Pew Internet: Future of the Internet
A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » New Media Literacies: Nice Short Video
Success in life and as a citizen increasingly depends not so much on access to devices as access to knowledge — knowledge of the skills necessary to use widely available technology to achieve one’s ends as an individual and a citizen. In other words: literacy. This video is only three minutes long, but it gets the point across nicely:
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
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Resources for Educational Achievement and Leadership (REAL) - Oregon Department of Education
Top News - Panel: Technology alone can't protect kids online
A task force charged with assessing technologies for protecting children from unwanted contact online has concluded that no single approach is foolproof and that parent and teacher oversight is vital.
Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown - NYTimes.com
A task force created by 49 state attorneys general to look into the problem of sexual solicitation of children online has concluded that there really is not a significant problem.
Top News - Phony Facebook pages teach students a lesson
After a college resource company created a legion of phony Class of 2013 Facebook groups--a scheme that could have harvested personal information from thousands of students--some higher-education officials say it might be time for colleges to step in and manage online social-networking sites for their campuses themselves.
At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard - NYTimes.com
The physics department has replaced the traditional large introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive, collaborative learning.
The MySpace scourge? Pasco schools turn it around - St. Petersburg Times
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
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