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Stimulus funding to promote digital literacy in Humboldt County

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.times-standard.com (Views: 19, Clicks: 3)
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The U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) last week announced a grant award to Access Humboldt for sustainable broadband adoption. Access Humboldt will receive more than $150,000 in funding and support from ZeroDivide, a San Francisco-based foundation, for the Generation ZD Digital Literacy Program.

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Catoosa students get laptops for some high-tech learning

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 20, Clicks: 3)
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At least 320 middle school students are receiving MacBook laptop computers this week as part of a learning project. A total of 175 eighth-graders at Wells Middle School received their computers Tuesday as part of Catoosa's One to One Learning Initiative, Wells Principal Della Parrish said. She said 147 seventh-graders were given laptops Thursday.

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Digital Dossier

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.youtube.com (Views: 25, Clicks: 9)
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How aware are you of your digital dossier?

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Del Crest eighth-grade class has new laptops for learning

nitajo sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 26, Clicks: 5)
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Title I federal grants paid for new Apple MacBooks for 194 eighth-graders at Del Crest Middle School in Del City. The laptops are hoped to boost student performance and help keep them in school.

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Judge rules Oklahoma must fund charter school

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.newsok.com (Views: 28, Clicks: 9)
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Epic 1 on 1 Charter School — a proposed virtual academy that hoped to enroll students for school on Sept. 1 - won Oklahoma funding based on student enrollment Monday. It will have to wait until next year to sign up students.

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North Adams Public Schools making use of iPads

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.thetranscript.com (Views: 14, Clicks: 7)
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Forget laptops. The North Adams Public Schools are hoping the latest form of innovative handheld technology -- the Apple iPad -- will entice at-risk students to improve their grades and graduate on time.

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New OSU social media network helps students connect

nitajo sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 33, Clicks: 4)
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Technology is transforming the way new students connect with each other and their campuses. About 1,800 incoming OSU students from 48 states and eight countries have registered for OKStateU 1.0, a social media website the university launched in May.

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Conference promotes incorporating technology in classrooms

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.gainesvilletimes.com (Views: 9, Clicks: 3)
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With the goal to engage students more in the classroom, teachers are attending the three-day conference at Flowery Branch High School to learn more about using Google documents, creating better teacher websites and incorporating popular gadgets — such as smart phones, laptops and MP3 players — in the classroom.

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Ed Tech Experts Choose Top Tools

nitajo sumitted ago via http://thejournal.com (Views: 25, Clicks: 15)
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Which web 2.0 tools are best suited for enabling collaboration in teaching and learning? A trio of ed tech experts offer up their top three choices apiece.

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Online education in Oklahoma deserves closer look

nitajo sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 18, Clicks: 9)
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Oklahoma Editorial -- Technology opens a virtual world of learning opportunities for Oklahoma's students, whether they're looking to advance beyond what a local school offers or because the traditional classroom setting hasn't worked well. But it also opens a not-so-virtual can of worms.

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Tech Tips For Teachers: Free, Easy and Useful Creation Tools

nitajo sumitted ago via http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com (Views: 45, Clicks: 26)
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New technologies are a powerful way for teachers to take their instruction to the next level. With so many choices, the trick is to locate user-friendly tools that allow you to craft differentiated learning experiences that engage students and help them develop 21st-century skills.

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Online education discussed at Oklahoma City conference

nitajo sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 10, Clicks: 1)
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Online learning - whether that's an entirely virtual high school system that hands out diplomas or a single course in Spanish - has emerged from the "fringe of education to the heart of it," said the keynote speaker at the Online Leadership Summit this week.

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Potomac School students take photos of Earth's curvature with help from iPad

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 10, Clicks: 1)
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At the Potomac School in McLean this past school year, 13 seventh- and eighth-graders signed up for a biweekly science elective that proposed this challenge: Take a photo of the curvature of the Earth and spend just $200 to do it.

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Demand Still Growing for Online Credit-Recovery Classes

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 12, Clicks: 2)
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Interest in online credit-recovery courses continues to surge, prompting some policy experts and educators to consider whether traditional rules requiring students to spend a certain number of hours in the classroom, rather than simply demonstrate their proficiency in the subject matter, are increasingly outdated.

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App Watch: Phoning From the iPad

nitajo sumitted ago via http://blogs.wsj.com (Views: 14, Clicks: 1)
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Apple’s iPad doesn’t technically offer the ability to make phone calls, but New York-based voice over IP phone system provider M5 Networks has figured out a way to offer clients the capability through an app.

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