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How can young children use iPads to learn?
What considerations should we keep in mind? How to get started and learn about what others are doing? What challenges, solutions, cautions and successes should we keep in mind, related to using the iPad with young children?
Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles” | Video on TED.com
As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
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How Limited Technology Budgets Failed My Students – The Tempered Radical
work wont be easy—-but neither is trying to keep a group of kids motivated and curious when they cant even find answers to the questions that they care about.
Common Core: Giving Happy Lie to the “Reform Consensus” :: Frederick M. Hess
These reformers imagine broad sentiment that anyone who’s not a union toadie agrees to a whole host of “reformy” things, including the Common Core, sanctity of value-added measures, race-based accountability metrics, niftiness of turnarounds, magic of Race to the Top, and so on. To question any of these has been enough to raise questions about one’s seriousness and judgment. The result has been bad for schooling, bad for reform, and bad for public debate.
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Gamasutra – Features – The POrTAl TwO ARG: The Whole Story
With everyone gathered in Valve’s sixth-floor fishbowl conference room, Gabe Himself lays out the core idea: Somehow use our Steam games to usher in the arrival of Portal 2. That’s it. There’s no agenda and no grand plan. Just pack a room full of fun, creative people and give them unrestricted access to Valve’s resources, including Portal 2 assets. No constraints. No NDAs. This was a project built on trust and mutual respect.
How Law Students Lose the Grant Game, and How Schools Win – NYTimes.com
But it’s a number worth knowing. At Golden Gate and other law schools nationwide, students are graded on a curve, which carefully rations the number of A’s and B’s, as well as C’s and D’s, awarded each semester. That all but ensures that a certain number of students — at Golden Gate, it could be in the realm of 70 students this year — will lose their scholarships and wind up paying full tuition in their second and third years.