January 2012
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Research update. (education and technology)
peterjung: So, after doing some research, my thesis is taking a somewhat different direction. Instead of focusing directly on digital literacy, I’m looking at best practices for incorporating digital literacy and educational technology into curricula. This includes using technology to augment a curriculum, or teaching digital literacy alongside other content, emphasizing increasing students...
Jan 31st
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Filter the Web with DansGuardian in Ubuntu 11.10
blackcathacker: To get started, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the commands below to install DansGuardian and Squid. sudo apt-get install dansguardian squid Next, run the commands below to open DansGuardian’s config file. sudo gedit /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf Then find the highlighted line shown below and delete it. Or just comment it...
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Should Coding Classes be Compulsory? →
Jan 24th
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web20classroom: 14 Steps To Meaningful Student Blogging: http://t.co/3NyQ67c0
Jan 23rd
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Your Classroom can tolerate evernote →
Jan 23rd
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And students are shown to perform better using... →
peterjung: “But today another data point emerged, demonstrating that the iPad can be a valuable asset in education. In a partnership with Apple, textbook publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt performed a pilot study using an iPad text for Algebra 1 courses, and found that 20 percent more students (78 percent compared to 59 percent) scored ‘Proficient’ or ‘Advanced’ in subject comprehension when...
Jan 22nd
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Intimate teens sharing passwords? →
Anything to it?
Jan 19th
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New Font for Readers with Dyslexia
Based on my recent research, this is a newly available, open source font intended for some readers with dyslexia: http://www.dafont.com/open-dyslexic.font . I’m eager for data or feedback regarding how it does against the 2 proprietary options.
Jan 19th
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QR What? →
Jan 18th
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Mahara / ePortfolios: Case Studies →
Long on conclusion, short on evidence. This doesn’t negate this page’s powerful ideas for putting Mahara to work for teaching and learning.
Jan 18th
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NYC To Open 1st High School Dedicated To Software →
Jan 17th
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Most Commonly Used Passwords
anticapitalist: 10,000 Most Common Passwords List [71KB via FileSonic] 10,000 Most Common Passwords with Frequency [115KB via FileSonic] Protect yourself.
Jan 16th
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Jan 12th
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“Sadly, children’s passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world...”
– Bell Hooks (via cwolonthwee)
Jan 12th
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gjmueller: APPitic APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.
Jan 12th
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Linux from Scratch →
fuckyeahterminals: This should be your new bible. In all seriousness this is probably one of those most complete and useful (and actually understandable) knowledge-base for this kind of stuff that I have seen in a very very long time. New course material and curricular revamp. Student approved, endorsed, enthused.
Jan 11th
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Please Vote
ideasandopinions: ghoulmann: My principal is up for Compassionate Marylander award from Gov. O’Malley. As I support her with all my mind and heart, I ask that you please take a moment to put a vote in: she’s running third. Here’s the url: http://www.governor.maryland.gov/blog/?p=3371 - please vote Kate Fedalen if you have a chance? Signal boost!
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16424990 →
Jan 10th
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Jan 7th
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Essential Writing Lab Tool of the Moment:...
Some have begun teaching peer review and revision in high school using Google Docs. Fair enough, if your school has committed to Google Apps accounts for everyone in the community. Our alternative is Gobby. Gobby is a collaborative, synchronous text composition and editing tool. Given its feature set, it’s clearly designed for programmers and coders (syntax highlighting, for example)....
Jan 6th
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WordPress 3.3.1 Released to Fix XSS Vulnerability
famthegeek: A couple of Indian security researchers, Aditya Modha and Samir Shah, found an easy-to-exploit cross-site scripting (XSS) weakness that affected all WordPress 3.3 websites, but version 3.3.1 was quickly released to fix the issue. Read More
Jan 4th
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Jan 3rd
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F@mTheGeeK: Hackers Can Exploit WordPress 3.3... →
famthegeek: Indian security researchers Aditya Modha and Samir Shah found a zero-day cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the recently released WordPress 3.3. Modha and Shah tested the proof of concept on an Apache server, proving that by simply posting a comment on a WordPress…
Jan 3rd
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