New Astronomy Tool: “Truly Transformative”
Connect-Ed@TIE: New Astronomy Tool: “Truly Transformative”
The blog Learning.Now details some new proposed legislation in the House that resurrects DOPA (Deleting Online Predators Act) that was passed by the House last year but received no movement from the Senate. At first glance this bill looks laudable, putting further restrictions to keep pornography from children. It then targets social networking sites to…
So most of us have read articles that list “The 10 Best Apps for…” or “My Favorite Apps to…” There are hundreds out there, many listed in my list of bookmarks (so what do you call a list of lists?) Several sessions here at the ISTE Conference provide great suggestions for apps (e.g. What’s Your App? Finding Real…
We have breached the subject of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) in past postings (Low-cost Laptops Battling for Markets). OLPC was originally slated for developing countries only, but there evidently have been some discussion about implementing the low-cost laptops in the US: Advanced Search – Birmingham mayor seeks low-cost laptops The Birmingham News reported last…
NECC 2007 – Keynote Click the link directly above to view the entry in the TIE Lead blog…
With all the discussion on what content should be blocked/filtered, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) sponsored a webcast that questions the practice of blocking all Web 2.0 resources: eSchoolNews – CoSN to school leaders: ‘Think before you ban’ Before school officials prohibit teachers and students from accessing certain web sites, they should think about…
This is an interesting article to help identify things that should be on our “radar screens.”Six key ed-tech trends to watch http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/PFshowstory.cfm?ArticleID=6842 The trends they discuss include:Trend No. 1: The leveling power of the World Wide Web Trend No. 2: Cloud computingTrend No. 3: Service-oriented architectureTrend No. 4: The gathering SCORMTrend No. 5: Telepresence and…