Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 10/12/2011

• ITU Telecom World 2011 | MetaConference

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  At school or college? Have an idea to change the world?
  
  ITU Telecom World 2011 brings together thousands of influential delegates from the telecommunications and technology industries to discuss what steps need to be taken to get more of the world connected. They’re meeting in Geneva, Switzerland on October 25-27, and they need your help!
  
  We are inviting 10,000 global school children (8-18) to design the innovations that could make a real difference to their world.

 Sign up your school or class now, and your students can start influencing thousands of decision-makers in information and technology communications.
  
  Once you’ve registered to get involved, you can share your ideas and prototypes with each other. Your ideas will also form a significant part of World 2011′s Manifesto for Change, a blueprint for using technology to make a real difference.
  
  Brought to you by the ITU Development Sector. Read more about this call to action in our introductory blog post."

  tags: education innovation collaboration ideas reform

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 10/11/2011

• What Works Clearinghouse

  A US department of education website that is designed to help schools pick research-proven software. This website reviews the research and works to meta-analyze the results. As always, be careful to see who PAID for a student (will they really release the results unless it is favorable) and know that nothing replaces an excellent teacher. The students I've seen show parents are the highest correlation with good test scores with teachers as a second. Learning environment is also a big factor. Learning is an ecosystem.

  tags: education learning research innovation software

• A Classroom Software Boom, but Mixed Results Despite the Hype - NYTimes.com

  Software companies claim "proven" results but continue to ignore independent studies. If you think you can get a quick fix with software you might want to look again. This New York Times article shows just how volatile this debate has become.

  tags: education research math test scores school improvement

• The Qwikster and the Dead: Netflix kills plan to split off DVD rentals to ‘Qwikster’ site - The Washington Post

  Netflix canning plans to spin off a separate site. I guess this is good, but it does worry me when a company makes a big reversal. I guess netflix is happy - their stock prices went up. But if Steve Jobs taught us anything it is that we, the consumer, often don't know what we want. I personally made fun of the ipad name and the first ipod - I didn't "get" until I "got" one.

  tags: education innovation change

• The Behavioral Reporter: Teacher Behavior Report Card Generator

  Great daily behavior report card. I highly recommend this when you're trying to get at the behavior of a child during the day.

  tags: education intervention

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 10/08/2011

• Definitions of Cyberbullying from Stop Cyberbullying

  This organization has some good definitions of cyberbullying. Look here for definitions. Cyberbullying - ""Cyberbullying" is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones."

  tags: education cyberbullying Bullying

• edcamp - edcamp Space Coast

  If you are in Florida you may want to join the edcamp spacecoast - an unconference open to anyone. Some great people presenting and participating at this event including Jerry Blumegarten and Silvia Tolisano.

  tags: education edcamp unconference

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 10/06/2011

• Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011 | Epicenter | Wired.com

  Steve Jobs' obituary on wired news. He died too young but lived while he lived. May innovation at Apple not die with him. I think this makes us all sad because so much of innovation in the last years have been tied up with his leadership and vision that it is hard to imagine a world without him. I think it is harder to imagine imagination without him. Do we have the creativity in us to come up with things no one has thought of and improve millions of lives?

  tags: education history edtech leadership arts_entertainment web2.0

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It is hard to imagine imagination without Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs' obituary on wired news. He died too young but lived while he lived. May innovation at Apple not die with him.

Even Google pays tribute to Steve Jobs today.

I think this makes us all sad because so much of innovation in the last years have been tied up with his leadership and vision that it is hard to imagine a world without him.

I think it is harder to imagine imagination without him. 

Do we have the creativity in us to come up with things no one has thought of and improve millions of lives?

I took that svelte Mac SE to college with me in 1987 and attribute much of the fact that I was first in my class at GT to the fact that everything I produced looked so much better than what everyone else had.

Rest in peace.You are the apple of the world's eye. I wish you had been here to see what even your enemies think. Of course, it is easy to be at peace with you now, they can rest easier because you were quite the competitor. But in this competition you made us all better.

I need to stop now and finish up my ISTE 2012 proposals before I wax too sentimental. I just feel like I grew up watching him be the grown up who had just enough kid in him to intrigue us and help us find play amidst the work.

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• Wired Magazine - Steve Jobs - Obituary

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 10/03/2011

• PBS Teachers | PBS Teachers . Tech Integration . Research & Best Practices

  Excellent collection of research about technology integration on PBS' technology integration website.

  tags: education research edu_news

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 10/02/2011

• Teachers Teaching Teachers, on Twitter: Q. and A. on 'Edchats' - NYTimes.com

  Excellent article on twitter hashtags as pd for teachers!

  tags: Twitter education

• Dribbble - About

  This is a website for graphic designers. Kind of a social network and kind of a game- here is how the new creative design landscape is evolving.

  tags: Education arts_entertainment art creativity graphicdesign social networking

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