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"When Apple released iOS 6, our iPhones, iPads and iPod touches got hundreds of new features. Some of them were much bigger than others and generated so much talk that other features got lost in the shuffle. Everybody has been talking about Apple’s Map app debacle, but did you also know that you can share your photo stream with anyone using iOS 6? With just a few taps, you can let all of your friends see your images and comment on them and we’re going to tell you how."
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"For those of us who don’t spend our lives on the internet it is easy to forget the significance of being dubbed the number one search engine in the world. But spending just a few moments poking around Google will quickly remind you of the vast resources the site has to offer."
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"I recently read Why School? by Will Richardson, a great book looking towards the future of education and I thought I would put together a quick review of my thoughts on it. If you are anything like me, you are hoping that we are on the precipice of major change in education. I am hoping that we can break free from many of the traditions we have continued for far too long. Of course I am not bright enough to point us in the right direction, but I am ready and waiting to be a foot soldier for the cause."
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Want to create your own interactive eBook for the iPad? It's actually really simple using the iBooks Author program that Apple provides for free! Writing eBooks has so many awesome business applications and benefits.
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"It’s 2012. Technology suffuses everything around us. The Internet and Internet browsers have been pretty mainstream for at least a decade. And yet, I continually run into significant numbers of educators who still don’t know how to work their Internet browser."
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"Back in the early days of Edudemic (November 2010), I wrote a simple post asking if school days should be longer. I think Edudemic had about 3 visitors a month at that point (thanks mom and dad!) so it didn’t get much traction. However, the post just got an interesting comment from Jamie Baird, a middle school teacher in North Carolina. Her students laid a Pros and Cons list on the topic of school days being longer. Here’s her comment. What do you think? Should school days be longer?"
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"It used to be so easy to be smart. Seriously, all you had to do was learn lots of trivia, know how to do a variety of things, be able to quickly recall information, facts, and figures, and people figured you knew it all. Well folks, the world has changed. "
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"We hear about the insane numbers of iPhones and tablets sold every second. Everyone seems to have one or is about to buy one. But what about the teenagers? Exactly how many purchase the iDevices? A new report from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster spells it all out to MacRumors."
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One of the best things about using an iPad is all the great apps that we can run on it. There are excellent apps for just about any purpose you can think of.
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"If you’ve recently gotten an iPad or a set of iPads in your school and you’re not sure what to do with them, here are four things you can do right away:"
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"From flipping your classroom to deploying digital textbooks, there’s a lot of disruption happening in the classroom. We talk about these trends every day on Edudemic and hope that helps you stay on the so-called bleeding edge of education innovation."
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"Twitter is a social network of huge importance for us in education. We have posted several articles about it here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning and there is even a separate section where you can access all the educational tools you might need to effectively leverage Twitter in your teaching and learning."
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"Lucky for you, our friends at Online College Courses repurposed our lengthy list and made it a whole lot less, well, difficult. The following visualization should be a handy resource for any teacher looking to make the dive into Twitter. Trust me, it’s a bit daunting but worth taking the plunge. Just don’t be surprised if you become an addict!"
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"I recently came across an article in Wired Magazine called “Why Kids Can’t Search“. I’m always interested in this particular topic, because it’s something I struggle with in my middle and high school classes constantly, and I know I’m not alone in my frustrations."
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"With all the acronyms that determine hundreds of different areas of education, it is easy to confuse them all. Since 2001, the letters STEM have been a normal part of educational vocabulary
The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. This program was started by Judith A. Ramaley, the former director of the National Science Foundation’s education and human-resources division."
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Yesterday I Tweeted out a link to a video titled “Meet the YouTube Next EDU Gurus,” a video that I found disconcerting on a number of levels, (not the least of which the music.) I know that in one...
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Download 450 free courses from Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley and other great universities to your computer or mobile device.
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Ok Not really Professional Learning but I bet you'll learn something from these tips!
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John
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"One future topic in our iPads in high school project is a use of Augmented Reality apps with iPad. Scoopit is a great way to start collecting resources for teachers in this project. I will post some results later on."
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"At-risk students like Jimmy come in all shapes and forms. They tend not to fit in at school. Some are withdrawn and quiet, and others are disruptive or rebellious. Academically, they often perform below their expected grade level (National Mentoring Partnership, 2007). Many are truant and come from homes with high mobility rates and lower socioeconomic status; some must work more than 20 hours each week to support their families (Hammond, Linton, Smink, & Drew, 2007)."
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"Food, iMovie, and Keynote… what could be better? This iLesson showcases how our HC Top Chefs used a combination of iMovie, Keynote, and various note-taking apps to evaluate their favorite dishes, create a healthier alternative, and showcase it all using the iPad."
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Smartphones and tablet computers are radically transforming how we access our shared knowledge sources by keeping us constantly connected to near-infinite volumes of raw data and information.
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In outcomes-based learning environments, we generally see three elements in play: 1) learning objectives or targets are created from given standards; 2) instruction of some kind is given; and then 3)...
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"For those of you who are new to this blog and want to learn about how to use blogs in teaching then I recommend you read the above mentioned article http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/ultimate-guide-to-use-of-blogs-in.html . Today, however we are going to add up to what we have already said about blogging but this time we have an infographic from our colleague Langwitches http://langwitches.org/blog . "
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