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Turning a Children’s Rating System Into an Advocacy Army
From the New York Times - "James P. Steyer came here from San Francisco last week on a whirlwind tour to try to engage the country’s power brokers in his new crusade to put children and education at the top of the nation’s political agenda."
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Amazon Media Room: RSS Content
From Amazon - "New features and enhancements—including tiered administration, group management, and premium customer support—make it easier for organizations to use Whispercast at-scale" h/t Audrey Watters
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This makes me nervous
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Pros & Cons of Using Blog Posts for School Announcements
A good look at the pros and cons of using a blog to communicate information to parents
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How I Use the Social Networks These Days
From Chris Brogan "I wanted to tell you that I see a lot of shifts in the whole online/social networks landscape. Some of it kind of saddens me. The rest of it points to the weakening state of effectiveness of various platforms as business tools. You can disagree. That’s fine."
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The Internet has created a generation of great writers
From Penelope Trunk - The best writers in the history of the world are graduating from college, right now. So everyone can just shut up about how no one can write anymore.
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The Trouble With Grading Employees
Correlations with education...
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Global '100-year gap' in education standards
From the BBC - When it comes to education the differences between the developed and developing worlds remain stark.
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This school in Norway abandoned teaching subjects 40 years ago - Quartz
Finland has announced that in their new national curriculum, they will emphasize phenomena-based project studies instead of traditional subjects. The Ringstabekk school—with 425 students aged 13 to 16 years just outside Norway’s capital, Oslo—has been doing this for 40 years with great success.
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HBO NOW on the App Store on iTunes
Last Chance to try #HBONOW FREE for 30 Days. Download and start streaming #GameofThrones today. https://t.co/SXEj3VJDvq
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Virtual Library (Publications Getty)
Over 250 ebooks from J. Paul Getty Museum
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Book titles with full text online | MetPublications | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
437 book titles with full text online from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Nearly 700 Art History Books to Read Online for Free
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A Handful of Tools That Help Students Analyze Their Own Writing
From Richard Byrne - Here are some more good tools that students can use to analyze their own writing.
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Great FREE program developed by Stanford Professor Jo Boaler to engage students in math.
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2014 Report Card - Digital Learning Now
Digital Learning Now rates all 50 states on their readiness for digital learning
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iPads, E-Readers, and Early Literacy: Emerging Research From AERA - Digital Education
Research on the advantages of e-reading
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A good example of a teacher using PBL in elementary school
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Escalante-Gradillas $20,000 Prize for Best in Education | The Best Schools
@patrickmlarkin Hi Patrick, have you heard about our $20K educator’s award? Winner’s school gets $10K…! See: http://t.co/37RLsnQFJ4
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Good piece on teaching skills versus teaching content from terry Heick
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50 Companies That Get Twitter – and 50 That Don’t - HBR
They have given their social media staff a clear mission and a great deal of autonomy; the account’s managers chat with customers, offer up front to solve problems, and empathize...
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Britain should be wary of borrowing education ideas from abroad
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Good post on options for teaching students remotely - I can flip the presentation using the video above. The video explains how you can use Blackboard Collaborate which is something we have in Fairfax County. But there are other alternatives as you can see below.
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Does the Common Core help boost reading comprehension?
Part 1 of 5 on Daniel Willlingham's Book - Raising Kids Who Read
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23 Tech Tools that Help Students Follow their Pass
23 Tech Tools that Help Students Follow their Passions Like the Pros http://t.co/D44Y1ZSmHj #geniushour #20Time #passionproject
Sunday, May 3, 2015
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (May 3, 2015)
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