Category Archives: Education

The Enormous Opportunity In Educating And Empowering Girls | Co.Exist

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Giving young girls an education has such a huge impact in developing countries that you need to see it to believe it. A new film called Girl Rising shows how education affects nine girls from nine countries–with some help from Meryl Streep.

via The Enormous Opportunity In Educating And Empowering Girls | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation.

CNN will be broadcasting Girl Rising June 16 & June 22. Check out the Girl Rising trailer website.

10×10 (Educate Girls: Change the World) is “a global action campaign for educating girls.” There will be a companion curriculum launched on October 11, 2013, The International Day of the Girl. The curriculum will be free of charge and educators can fill out a form to be notified when the curriculum is available.

There is also the 10×10 Book Club with toolkits for book clubs for two specific books so far (they will be adding more), as well as young adult and middle grade toolkits.

33 Signs You Are an EdTech Nerd – Stephen’s Lighthouse

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33 Signs You Are an EdTech Nerd – Stephen’s Lighthouse

My favs:

3.  You curate your own display of your old laptops and cell phones in your office.

9.  You get excited when you talk about multi-tenant cloud architecture.

28.  You wonder about how so many of the most interesting e-learning people could possibly all come from Australia (population 22.62 million).

28.  You wonder about how so many of the most interesting e-learning people could possibly all come from Australia (population 22.62 million).

10 Fun Ways to Feed Your Mind this Summer | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org

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10 Fun Ways to Feed Your Mind this Summer | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org.

These include:

  1. Learn a new language
  2. Register for a MOOC
  3. Watch Videos from Recent Conferences
  4. Create an Awesome Summer Reading List
  5. Play an Educational Game
  6. Learn how to play an instrument
  7. Listen to Some Smart Podcasts
  8. Download Free Audiobooks
  9. Install Educational Apps on Your Tablet
  10. Read Free eBooks

See the article for the full discussion.

23 Mobile Things: Join the Australian / New Zealand Course « Tame The Web

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23 Mobile Things: Join the Australian / New Zealand Course « Tame The Web

Excerpt below from Tame the Web | http://tametheweb.com/2013/05/01/23-mobile-things-join-the-australian-new-zealand-course/

What are the 23 Mobile Things?

  1. Twitter
  2. Taking a photo with a mobile device:  Instagram / Flickr app / Snapchat
  3. eMail on the move
  4. Maps and checking in: Foursquare
  5. Photos + Maps + Apps: Historypin / What was there / Sepia Town
  6. Video: YouTube and screencasts
  7. Communicate: Skype / Google Hangout
  8. Calendar
  9. QR codes
  10. Social reading: RSS / Flipboard / Feedly / Goodreads / Pocket
  11. Augmented reality: Layar
  12. Games: Angry Birds / Wordfeud
  13. Online identity: FaceBook and LinkedIn
  14. Curating: Pinterest / Scoop.it / Tumblr
  15. Adobe ID
  16. eBooks and eBook apps: Project Gutenberg / Kindle / Overdrive / Bluefire / Kobo, etc.
  17. Evernote and Zotero
  18. Productivity tools: Doodle / Remember the Milk / Hackpad / any.do /  30/30
  19. File sharing: Dropbox
  20. Music: last.fm / Spotify
  21. Voice interaction and recording
  22. eResources vendor apps
  23. Digital storytelling

You can view the 23 Mobile Things on the official blog here –http://23mobilethings.net/wpress/the-things/

What is this NZ/Australian cohort all about?
simple; it is just establishing a group of librarians in NZ and Australia who are keen to do the 23 Mobile Things at the same time. This cohort will give us mutual support and contact with each other so that we can learn together and keep each other motivated. Hopefully it will help you grow your own personal learning network (PLN) and have fun and great collaborations throughout the course!

Librarians: Your Most Valuable MOOC Supporters – OEDB.org

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Libraries offer resources, from research to licensing support, that are essential to the future of MOOCs as they grow both in numbers and in seriousness. As MOOCs become an increasingly valid and valuable resource, it’s clear that they can benefit from another great educational resource: librarians.

via Librarians: Your Most Valuable MOOC Supporters – OEDB.org.

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16 Free Live Webinars for Librarians in June | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org

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16 Free Live Webinars for Librarians in June – OEDB.org.

I particularly intrigued by Public Libraries: Become a Community Publishing Portal (PLA) and Support Patron Learning in Small Spaces with Small Budgets.

Hogwarts for Hackers: Inside the Science and Tech School of Tomorrow | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

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Hogwarts for Hackers: Inside the Science and Tech School of Tomorrow | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

The article takes an in depth look at the unique education approach at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), where students have the opportunity to work on self-directed projects.

Gun Violence, Videogames, and Libraries | American Libraries Magazine

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Quotables:

“ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom recommends that libraries cultivate videogame creation, play, and contests. Many reluctant learners are at-risk youth, and gaming helps bring them into the library.”

“Libraries are among the most trusted of institutions. It is time to use that trust to create activities and programs that help solve the problem of gun violence.”

via Gun Violence, Videogames, and Libraries | American Libraries Magazine.

A Robot For Autistic Kids, Now In Schools | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

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The humanoid NAO Robot can interact with kids in a way that grownups sometimes can’t.

via A Robot For Autistic Kids, Now In Schools | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation.

Extraordinary and heartwarming.

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Robot Aids in Therapy for Autistic Children | The Wall Street Journal Online

How and Why to Teach Your Kids to Code | LifeHacker

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Whether or not your child grows up to be the next Zuckerberg, programming is a highly useful skill for him or her to learn. It teaches vital problem-solving, creativity, and communication skills. Plus, it can be downright fun for you both. Here are some of the best tried-and-true apps for teaching kids of all ages how to code.

via How and Why to Teach Your Kids to Code | LifeHacker

Apps discussed cover from the very young to older learners and include:

  • Daisy the Dinosaur
  • Move the Turtle
  • Hopscotch
  • Scratch
  • Stencyl
  • App Inventor
  • Alice
  • Pluralsight video lessons
  • Codeacademy, Khan Academy

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Collection of Links: Resources for Learning to Code | The Modern MLIS