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Einstein’s Pedometer for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
Before I Die « Candy Chang
Well, Duh!
Corollary 9A: Kids aren’t just future adults. They are that, of course, but they aren’t only that, because children’s needs and perspectives are worth attending to in their own right. We violate this precept — and do a disservice to children — whenever we talk about schooling in economic terms, treating students mostly as future employees.
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Brainchild Learning Tools: Study Buddy
Cathie Black and the privatisation of education | Daniel Denvir | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Mayor Bloomberg was shocked by the negative response to Black’s appointment – just as he was shocked by the visceral public backlash against his elimination of term limits. Black was appointed precisely because of her lack of education experience, just as billionaires nationwide have campaigned for office as consummate non-politicians. All that our benign corporate overlords expect, of course, is the occasional “thank you”.
The school privatisation movement is one of unparalleled genius. It proposes free-market solutions to a problem created by the free market: wealthy taxpayers refusing to adequately fund poor people’s schools and a deindustrialised service economy that has eliminated good jobs for the working class. Once upon a time, in the 1990s, young people who wanted to change education for the better read Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities. Today, they watch the film Waiting for “Superman”, join Teach for America for a couple of years …
ArcGIS
ArcGIS maps online with mashup, apps etc. Some really interesting possibilities.
Not in my backyard! App to spot eyesores in the making – tech – 07 April 2011 – New Scientist
3d augmented reality app that allows you to overlay 3d sketchup models onto reality.
Social Networking In Schools: Educators Debate The Merits Of Technology In Classrooms
A Mashable article titled, The Case For Social Media in Schools, also details several reasons for advocating the use of social networking in the classroom and provides a real example of how it is affecting education in a positive way.
“A year after seventh grade teacher Elizabeth Delmatoff started a pilot social media program in her Portland, Oregon classroom, 20 percent of students school-wide were completing extra assignments for no credit, grades had gone up more than 50 percent, and chronic absenteeism was reduced by more than a third.”