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Using del.icio.us In Education
A very good and indepth article on the use of delicious in education
Tags: doe, del.icio.us, delicious, school2.0, saschools, education, socialbookmarking
A $100 Billion Question: How Best to Fix the Nation's Schools? - Class Struggle - Jay Mathews on Education
If you had $100 billion to fix our schools, what would you do? A surprisingly smart list of suggestions for the education portion of the federal stimulus money is circulating in the education policy world. A group of experts claims authorship. I don't believe committees are capable of good ideas, so I doubt the alleged origins of the list. But let's put that aside for a moment and see what they've got.

Better yet, why not come up with our own ideas? My column seeking cheap ways to improve education yielded interesting results. By contrast, think of what we could do if we had enough money to buy the contract of every great quarterback: guarantee the Redskins a Super Bowl victory. Many expensive school-fixing schemes proved just as insane and just as useless. But Barack Obama is president, and we are supposed to be hopeful.
Tags: fix, schools, billion, $, education, money, budget

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Monday, May 11, 2009

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Tags: software, opensource, elementary, educational, education, kids
Kindle DX: Sleeper Agent for Amazon’s Future | Green Business | Reuters
New kindle DX - 3 months after the other - what is the difference:

"the big differences are that the Kindle DX is 4 inches larger than the one you bought last month and comes installed with a PDF reader."

$489 price tag

Some of my students are reading on their itouch now.
Tags: education, technology
Future of Education
A very solid paper on the future of education and the technological forces that are driving change.
Tags: future of education, education, technology, future, online, learning

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Tags: creativecommons, copyright, education, opensource, resources, learning, commons, creative
All You Need To Know About Twitter
To the Internet hipsters who discovered Twitter in 2006, Oprah's inaugural tweet - FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY, she typed - was the end of the era, the shark jump. But that's like saying the Beatles were over after they appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show."\nTwittermania has only begun. In the days after Oprah's show, Twitter's traffic growth is accelerating. The ratings service HitWise now ranks twitter.com as America's No. 38 Web site. It's about to rocket past CNN and Wells Fargo.
Tags: education, twitter, 21st_century, learning

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