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John Seely Brown on Technological Evolution: Your iPad is Like an Arthropod | Think Tank | Big Think "Learning guru John Seely Brown finds an intriguing analogy between the disruptive technology of today and what evolutionary biologists have observed in the fossil record during a period over 500 million years ago. The Cambrian period was like evolution on steroids. After a period of long evolutionary stasis, a warming climate created marine habitats that gave birth to new complex life forms. Among the great evolutionary innovations of this period were animals with external skeletons, or arthropods. " tags: ipad education WikiMindMap Search the wikipedia and graph the results as a mindmap. tags: wikipedia mindmap

How To Make Students Better Online Researchers " We never question the vital importance of teaching literacy, but we have to be mindful that there are many kinds of “literacies”. An ever more important one that ALL teachers need to be aware of is digital literacy. I could go off in many directions on this, but for the purpose of this post I’m focusing strictly on the digital literacy of searching." tags: how to students online researchers Colchester Harbour - Colchester, Ontario I just ousted @vlbcanada as the mayor of Colchester Harbour on @foursquare! http://t.co/28eJmCOl tags: via:packrati.us Teaching and Developing online: Rules for teachers in 1915

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22 Filmmaking Apps for the iPad & iPhone | FilmmakerIQ.com "For this feature we have rounded up some of the best and most useful Filmmaking Apps that our Deal Leader Steve Jobs has approved for the App Store. As more filmmakers explore the possibilities with these powerful mobile devices, we are sure this list will continue to grow." tags: filmmaking apps ipad iphone moviemaking film filming K-12 Blueprint | Resources for planning and implementing technology initiatives "Resources for planning and implementing technology initiatives" tags: technology initiatives edtech blueprint planning resources

Learnable Programming Here's a trick question: How do we get people to understand programming? tags: via:packrati.us programming learning education computer science computer studies Cube for K-12 Teachers « doug – off the record Just blogged... Cube for K-12 Teachers http://t.co/8LWy8dCU tags: via:packrati.us How To Get The New Twitter Header and Look More Like Facebook | Social Media Today "We've seen #newlook, #newtwitter, so I guess this is #newlooknewnewtwitter? Twitter has released another styling update, which bears striking resemblance to the Facebook Timelines released earlier this year. Now you can have a header on the

RT @scottjohnson19: New Leadership Framework for Principals and VP's in Ontario - 1 page summary http://t.co/PeLUaSrE RT @scottjohnson19: New Leadership Framework for Principals and VP's in Ontario - 1 page summary http://t.co/PeLUaSrE tags: via:packrati.us leadership principals ontario framework RT @scottjohnson19: Horizon Report 2012 K - 12 Edition ... http://t.co/Ff1xwEmr RT @scottjohnson19: Horizon Report 2012 K - 12 Edition ... http://t.co/Ff1xwEmr tags: via:packrati.us horizon horizon report The 20 Worst PINs: Is Your ATM Code This Easy to Crack? "Remember that list of the most frequently-used passwords? Did y