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New look in children’s lit: Give your grandchild a Kindle
The post from Hack Education reviews the emerging trend of ebook readers for very young children. Having watched our grandkids interact with an iPad, this trend makes sense to me. Touching stuff to make it react seems a very natural … Continue reading
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Good news on a gloomy “economic” day
I see the market is down 350 points as I write this post. I need some good news. Perhaps this is it. Comcast now offers a plan to provide the family of a child who is eligible for free or … Continue reading
The challenge of a sharing group in Google +
I have been thinking about the practicality of using Google + in K-12 classrooms. The use of circles to target who sees what would seem to address a core concern associated with the use of social media. I understand how … Continue reading
Do we rely on Google in the same way we rely on our wives?
You may have run across a reference to a Science article by Sparrow, Liu and Wegner who conducted several research studies suggesting that access to Google (and I assume other search services) may reduce memory functioning. The decline was attributed to … Continue reading
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Jim’s Tumblr Adventure
My son in law has been keeping a blog of our summer trip from his phone. He has been using Tumblr partly to prepare for use with his students next year. I am impressed with the design that can be … Continue reading
eBooks and Required Accommodations
This document (this is a pdf) from the DOE outlines expectations related to the use of ebooks and “new technologies” and expected accommodations for students with unique needs. While this topic can be frustrating, I did find that the examples … Continue reading
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