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A week ago, I saw a great graphic on a design blog by Hyperakt. They were hired by Design 360 to redesign the images that the word ‘teachers’ or ‘teaching’ bring to most peoples mind. What they came up with is a whole set of brilliant graphics that, to me at least, describe school as . . . → Read More: Inspire Teachers Air, Food, Water, Internet – Cisco Study Reveals Just How Important Internet and Networks Have Become as Fundamental Resources in Daily Life. Make sure to check out the infographic too. Posted via email from Houtman’s Thoughts on Education and Technology If you didn’t get a chance to see this last night on 60 Minutes – it’s worth it. Posted via email from Houtman’s Thoughts on Education and Technology “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They . . . → Read More: Steve Jobs: 1955-2011 I’m on a quest to fix the laptop cart. Here’s the problem: We have a few laptop carts – also known as Computers On Wheels (COWS). Many times the laptops are used all day long and require power supplies to keep them running. We are continually removing the laptop and power supply from the cart . . . → Read More: Hard to believe these don’t exist – Modular Laptop Power Supplies Via Mind/Shift and WQED – 21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020 Just an amplification on: 6. DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION AS A SIGN OF DISTINGUISHED TEACHER The 21st century is customizable. In ten years, the teacher who hasn’t yet figured out how to use tech to personalize learning will be the teacher out . . . → Read More: 21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020 Target map looks like an interesting way to overlay demographic or other datasets over a map. Once you launch a map, it goes full screen and would allow for navigation using the controls of an Interactive White Board as well, whic would help in getting your students to do the demo or explore . . . → Read More: TargetMap – Geographic + Data Visualization Mr. Negroponte says this better than I do – and after what I’ve seen this week it needs to be said again. I think we can take out the ‘in the developing world’ part too: “In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the . . . → Read More: Creating things versus following the recipe book This looks like a great idea to keep all of ones SD cards wrangled into one place. Only $7.00 from http://sdcardholder.com/. They seem like good stocking stuffer gifts for your photographer friends, or people you know that have an over-abundance of micro-SD cards. Posted via email from Houtman’s Thoughts on Education . . . → Read More: Great SD memory card holder idea |
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