Diigo bookmarks for today 10/20/2009

• Vocabulary Videos and Flash Cards for SAT, ACT and GRE - WordAhead.com > Home

  Tags: vocabulary, wordahead.com, languagearts, education, technologyintegration

• Microsoft exposes Firefox users to drive-by malware downloads | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

  Looks like the problems many of us have been having in Firefox (last week in particular) may actually be from Microsoft? Come on !! I love firefox and don't have my students use IE for this reason (slowness, lack of ad ons, viruses, malware.) The only time I'm using Chrome now is for special webapps (Toodledo) and also Google Wave (it seems to consume any other web browser.) This ZDNET article is a follow through from Stephen Downes' amazing resource sharing blog - if you haven't subscribed, you should.

  Tags: education, learning, edu_newapp, techintegrator

• A flat world - Flat Classroom Project

  I love these views from my student and her use of the term "horizontal" teaching - I think she has inadevertently hit on a very important concept for us teachers to understand.
  
  "Everyone has different views, different things they are good at, and different things they know. In a classroom, the teacher used to stand in front of the students, and lecture all day long. Now many of those teachers have started to teach "horizontally". This means that the teacher doesn't necessarily stand in front of her class and lecture, but works with the class, not only teaching them, but allowing them to teach her new things as well.
  
  This video gave me different opinions and opened my mind to a flattened world. I agree in many ways with Mr Friedman, because I personally do not learn well by having someone lecture me, it is very easy to get distracted, and by learning horizontally, I can interact with my teacher and classmates, and I feel like I learn so much more, because not only do I pay attention, but the fact that I am interacting, and experiencing what she is teaching helps out a lot."
  

  Tags: education, learning, fcp, flatclassroomproject, edu_trends

• LearnTrends 2009 -online conference

  The theme/focus this year is on Convergence in Workplace Learning. We will bring together people who look at different aspects of learning and knowledge work to understand better what's going on in those areas and how we should be thinking about this holistically.
  
  As always, this conference is about getting together interesting people who bring a slightly different perspective and have meaningful conversation around innovation in workplace learning. We typically get more than a thousand people signed up and at least a hundred in each session.

  Tags: conference, wshops, school2.0, learning, education, pd

• The Tiny Differences in the Littlest Brains ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes

  New book reviewed by Stephen Downes about gender differences in brains.

  Tags: education, reading, research, edu_news

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