Well, doing a weekly list of links is hard given the flood of activity going on in the labs. Maybe I should have called them LotWhen I Get Around to it?
Here are some good ones that came into this week.
2010 Horizon Report for K-12
This report lists trends and emerging technologies in K-12 education. A good read for where we are and where schools should be headed.
http://www.nmc.org/publications/2010-horizon-k12-report
From Virginia Hall
Does Font Choice Make a Difference in cost of printing? You bet it does! In fact, think before you print can also help save money.
http://blog.printer.com/2009/04/printing-costs-does-font-choice-make-a-difference/
Teaching About the Web includes Troublesome Parts
A great article about how we must use the very parts of the web that can cause some concern. I plan to use the CommonSenseMedia curriculum next year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/education/09cyberkids.html
The CRUDS
Never heard of them, well a picture is worth a thousand words. Look carefully.
http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-courses/golf-travel/buddies/2010-05/myrtle-beach-cruds
Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age by Larry Sanger – one of the founders of Wikipedia.
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume45/IndividualKnowledgeintheIntern/202336
From the article “analyze three common strands of current thought about education and the Internet. First is the idea that the instant availability of information online makes the memorization of facts unnecessary or less necessary. Second is the celebration of the virtues of collaborative learning as superior to outmoded individual learning. And third is the insistence that lengthy, complex books, which constitute a single, static, one-way conversation with an individual, are inferior to knowledge co-constructed by members of a group”.
From Loften D. – Never underestimate a sixth grader I say. He was showing me how he can now bring any of his or anyone’s Quizlets to his iPod Touch for offline review and studying. Very cool. This is a link to the Quizlet blog where they talk more about it.
http://quizlet.com/blog/archives/944
He likes the App Touchcards2 which is $1.99 in the App Store
http://slidetorock.com/apps/Touchcards-flashcard-learning-system.html
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