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http://facebookforeducators.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Facebook-Edu-Guide.pdf
Educators have traditionally helped parents teach young people about appropriate behavior
towards others. Now, with the explosion of social media, educators can be part of a larger
conversation with young people about digital citizenship and online behavior. We will discuss
more about what digital citizenship means in Section 4. As educators you can instruct them in
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These Wacky Web Tales are geared for grades 3 and above.
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Merge info from Google Forms to PDF Document and Send via Email « TJ Houston.com
Today we needed a way to easily take information submitted from Google Form and create a form letter so administrators can sign and send it home with a student. I went through several mail merge scripts but nothing fit exactly what I needed so I took some of the best ideas from all of them (especially the employee of the month script) and created a system that works for us
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1 | Lego Calculator Can Do Anything Your MacBook Can | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Turing’s birth, a team of geeks from the Netherlands decided to explain to the world just what the heck a Turing machine is–by designing and building one of out Lego. Check it out:
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How Google+ Has Morphed Over The Past Year & What We Can Expect in 2013
One year ago, Google+ launched to the world. Initially the launch was greeted with the collective cry, “Not another social network!” But over the past year Google+ has cemented its position as one of the Big Three social networks, alongside Facebook and Twitter.
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Special Education Overhaul Brings New Concerns About Students’ Programs – SchoolBook
As more neighborhood public schools open their doors to students with disabilities this fall, advocates, parents and educators say they are worried about a potential lack of support, especially when it comes to negotiating a student’s Individualized Education Program, or I.E.P.
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How The Workforce is Changing | Edudemic
In the following infographic from the Online MBA Program at the University of North Carolina, information regarding “Generation Y” (or the “millennials”) is given to better guess how the workforce might be changing.
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What makes a good teacher? | mrovertonprimary
What makes a good teacher?
Sometimes the simplest questions in life are the hardest to answer.
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Google and Online Education | Dejan Research
For several decades, computers have played an integral part in educating students, and, as computers become cheaper and more powerful, that role is set to increase. Today, a student can use the internet to do what formerly took an army of textbooks, calculators, and trips to a teacher’s office for help, all without leaving the comfort of their chair.
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Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Embrace Simplicity,Extend Complexity
Given the authority, the power to make a binding decision, what software would you have in schools today?
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for the love of learning: Destructive Grading Schemes
Teachers have what seems like an infinite number of assessment schemes at their disposal, and unfortunately most of these schemes revolve more around managing grades than encouraging learning.
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How Would the Obituary for Public Education Be Written? « educationalchemy
In the last two days I have taken to imagining the obituary for public education, should that ever come to pass. How would it read? Here lies public education … death by homicide (at the violent hands of corporate reform)? Or, will it read “…death by suicide (at the hands of our own fear, and or apathy)?
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We know it’s the holidays! … but here are some top math apps gone free for a limited times. All MathSpins by iHomeEducator are Free! 4 math apps that allows student(s) to learn interactively through spinning dials and selecting answers for addition and subtraction. FREE MATH APPS
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Today, Google announced a first: an enormous, free online course (known as a MOOC – a massive, open, online course) about one of our favorite topics: power searching! Lessons will be released beginning July 10, and you’ll have two weeks in which to complete the tasks. If you complete the lessons and assessments, you’ll earn a certificate of completion.
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Don’t Laugh at Google Glass: They’re Goofy, but They Will Save Us from Ourselves | PandoDaily
So Google’s heads-up-display glasses are goofy.
So what? A lot of technologies are goofy until they become ubiquitous.
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