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• Literacy Challenges of The Social Technographic Ladder

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  The ladder. Charlene Li and Josh Bernofff have written a great book titled Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies . In their book they describe The Social Technographics ladder. “Each step on the ladder represents a group of consumers moreinvolved in the groundswell than the ...
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• Consilience: Innovation Enabler

  
  Reed's Ruminations: A Blog by Dan Reed — Authority: 106
  A few thoughts from my Communications of the ACM blog post . In this era of hyper-specialization, it is important to remember the combined power of generality and specialization, lest we render true the old joke that education teaches one more and more about less and less until finally one knows everything about ...
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• Dumber Together? Brainstroming in a Professional Learning Community

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  You have seen it before. The PLC agenda says, “Brainstorm ideas for…” You look around and see the chartpaper, pens, and Post-It notes lying on the table, and you think toyourself, “Why do we waste the time.” You know the rules of brainstorming in PLCs … 1. No criticism 2. Wild ideas are ...
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• a third great toolset for educators in Second Life

  
  ventriloquy — Authority: 128
  following up from episode 179 , heres a third great toolset for educators in Second Life :-) its the Pathways LMS, scripted by Annie Obscure , who is a member of The Pathways Cooperative (the latter is billed as a group of programmers and artists who share their profits to support their art). you can read the ...
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• a third great toolset for educators in Second Life

  
  ventriloquy — Authority: 128
  following up from episode 179 , heres a third great toolset for educators in Second Life :-) its the Pathways LMS, scripted by Annie Obscure , who is a member of The Pathways Cooperative (the latter is billed as a group of programmers and artists who share their profits to support their art). you can read the ...
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• The (un)certainty of professional persistence

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 545
  There has been a lot of good discussion on my post about the future of books, libraries, librarians, and schools  (thank you, everyone). In addition to the comments on the post itself, there are some excellent thoughts elsewhere as well: Flat World Library Corporation Dangerously irrelevant libraries Ten ...
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• Future of Media

  
  Barb's Blog — Authority: 131
  Saw this on Rodney’s site, and thought to share it here at Barb’s Blog too.Future of media: Changing times, changing rapidly!
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• Awesome Science Kit Teaches Kids About Renewable Energy...But Requires AA Batteries?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 721
  Image via Hammacher Schlemer If I were nine years old again, Id soooo ask for this for Christmas. Its a learning toy centered on renewable energy. The mad scientist-looking device teaches kids about different types of renewable energy sources, how effective each type of energy source is, energy storage, and even ...
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• 150th Anniversary of On the Origin of Species, as Celebrated by Charlie’s Playhouse

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 725
  (Image: Charlies Playhouse) The 24th of November is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s work, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.” To celebrate this important anniversary, Charlie’s Playhouse , ...
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• How Four Intel Volunteers Brought the Excitement of PCs to Remote Bangladesh

  
  Think Green Alliance — Authority: 127
  Four Intel employees recently took on the task of introducing computers in two primary schools in a remote corner of Bangladesh. Working with our Save the Children USA partners over 9 hectic days (Oct. 14th.-22nd., 2009), we installed 60 Classmate PCs (CMPCs) donated by Intel’s World Ahead Program and provided basic ...
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• Are we too connected?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 545
  WHO TV (Des Moines) aired a special report, Are we too connected ? , on last night’s news broadcast. Among others, they interviewed me and Dr. Michael Bugeja , Professor and Director of Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication . I have interacted with Michael a couple of ...
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• 10 questions about books, libraries, librarians, and schools

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 545
  [ cross-posted at LeaderTalk ] October apparently was ‘Library Month’ for me. I was the keynote speaker for the Minnesota MEMO conference and did a breakout session for the Iowa Library Association (ILA) conference . I also brought Dr. Mike Eisenberg  to Iowa for three days to talk with school administrators ...
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• TEDxPhoenix to Feature Local Sustainability Expert

  
  AzSustainability.com — Authority: 106
  This is a guest post by longtime AzSustainability fan Tomas Carrillo. Greetings AZSustainability readers. I’ve been in the trenches for the last few weeks putting the finishing touches on Arizona’s first ever TEDxPhoenix event which is scheduled to take place this Friday, November 6th from 6pm to 9pm at the ...
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• Do The Math- The Networked Collaborative Formula

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  The Professional Networked Learning Collaborative has a large network surface area. Network surface area is a measurement of the extent and number of connections from the team members who are physically present with each other, and community partners, useful outsiders, specialists, consultants, professors, etc. who ...
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• The New Sputnik

  
  TechIntersect — Authority: 108
  In 2007 Vinton Cerf, a founding father of the Internet wrote that what this country needs is another Sputnik to reinvigorate science education. After reading Cerf’s article, last spring I did a research project on the National Defense Education Act . The NDEA was the US response to the launch of Sputnik, hoping ...
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• Bad Driving Gene ?

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 729
  A new study out this week says that there is a genetic variation in people which could be one of the causes of bad driving. The study was limited, involving 29 people of which 22 had the genetic quirk. The participants in the study drove 15 laps on a driving simulator then came back later and did the same test ...
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• Eric Sailers "Bling Your Blog" Presentation: How to spice up a blog with Web 2.0 widgets and interactive things

  
  Interactive Multimedia Technology — Authority: 427
  Eric Sailers is a speech-language pathologist and assistive technology specialist in the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District in San Diago, CA. Hes ahead of the pack when it comes to embracing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Distraction Devices?

  
  Teacherninja — Authority: 122
  Doug Johnson would like to know: "How do we deal with the distractive qualities of technology in schools?" Go to his post and answer him if youve got a good one. Im sure it depends on if its elementary, middle, high, or college and beyond. Different ages and technologies would lend themselves to different ...
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• Educations Triple Bottom Line

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  How does an organization measure success?  One measure, or should I say three, is the Triple Bottom Line . According to Wikipedia , “The phrase was coined by John Elkington , co-founder of the business consultancy SustainAbility in 1994. It was later expanded and articulated in his 1998 book Cannibals with ...
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• Marge Beatty, Nebraska ESU 16, talks about 1:1 laptop programs

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 545
  [ cross-posted at CASTLEs 1-to-1 Schools blog ] While at Nebraska’s first-ever Educational Administrators Technology Conference , I learned that 8 of the 16 districts in Educational Service Unit 16 have 1:1 laptop programs. Marge Beatty , chief administrator for the ESU, was willing to let me ask her a few ...
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