Oct 25 2009
School 2.0 Bookmarks (weekly)
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Loads of Maths eBooks for download
Wow, what a gem of a site where you can download great mathematics ebooks to enjoy
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If teens are confused by Twitter, what’s the right SocMed tool in school?
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The Educational Equity Center (EEC) at the Academy for Educational Development (AED) is using social networking to connect with United States (US) parents and educators about how to foster girls’ interest in science and technology, and to communicate why that is important. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Science: It’s a Girl Thing! is an early childhood science programme offering web-based resources detailing science-based activities for parents and children to do together at home, with supplementary how-to videos and discussions available online.
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“A Danish – South African initiative offering Mobile solutions for Literacy Training and Skills Development.”
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Thoughts on Setting up a Student Created Wiki
This really brought it home: “as we already know, the technology itself does not develop the skill, nor is it the teacher; the technology is only a tool, and teachers must remain committed to the collaborative process if students are to fully engage and develop the skills necessary to work collaboratively with their peers”
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The Great IWB Debate – The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution
Will be following this debate with interest seeing that I now have my very own mobile iwb!!! (and having great fun using it)
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Blooms Taxonomy Tutorial FLASH
This visual tutorial is really inspiring. Well done!
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“Write a comment or poem in the shape of hearts or other symbols.
Send a greeting or post to MySpace or your blog.” -
“Nearly ten years’ worth of research conducted by The Pew Internet & American Life Project examines the growing role of technology in our lives, our changing expectations about how to find and use information, and the impact these changes will have on libraries and other institutions in the future.”
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Education Week: Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less
A wonderful article about twitter in education
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Today’s students, she added, are going to need to have highly developed critical-thinking skills, be able to digest large amounts of information, and determine what’s important and what’s not. Those are the very kinds of skills they tend to use with Web 2.0 tools,
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This month, the UN’s International Telecommunications Union launched a blueprint for child online protection, drawn up jointly by welfare groups, regulators, law enforcement officials and the industry, that will be updated every year.
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Understanding what GIS is and what it can be used for. With a GIS application you can open digital maps on your computer, create new spatial information to add to a map, create printed maps customised to your needs and perform spatial analysis. In this worksheet we explore the basic concepts behind Geographical Information Systems.
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Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies
“”Many youth in the United States have fully integrated the Internet into their daily lives. For them, the Internet is a positive and powerful space for socializing, learning, and engaging in public life. Along with the positive aspects of Internet use come risks to safety, including the dangers of sexual solicitation, online harassment, and bullying, and exposure to problematic and illegal content. The Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking, comprising 50 state Attorneys General, asked this Task Force to determine the extent to which today’s technologies could help to address these online safety risks, with a primary focus on social network sites in the United States.” “
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LearnTrends 2009 -online conference
The theme/focus this year is on Convergence in Workplace Learning. We will bring together people who look at different aspects of learning and knowledge work to understand better what’s going on in those areas and how we should be thinking about this holistically.
As always, this conference is about getting together interesting people who bring a slightly different perspective and have meaningful conversation around innovation in workplace learning. We typically get more than a thousand people signed up and at least a hundred in each session.
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