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The Daily Round Up - June 12th, 2013

6/12/2013

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Welcome back!  And settle in, because we've got a long one today!  First up, Audrey Watters at Hack Education has an excellent new article on "Data, Surveillance, and Teaching Machines."  Watters discusses the recent NSA news and the student data collecting which is currently being done by companies like inBloom.  She's raises the important questions that should be asked here like "Who decides what is appropriate" and "Who actually has oversight over all this?"


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Emerging Ed Tech has a new post on "The Evolving Use of Badges in Education."  For those not familiar, badges are "visual representations of a skill or achievement" and can be quite motivating, even when they're only digital.  The article discusses how virtual rewards are beginning to displace costly physical rewards and what that means for education.


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Lisa Nielsen at The Innovative Educator has a great new article discussing "Where Does World-Changing Fit into the #CCSS?"  Nielsen discusses the disconnect between making schools a place where you can inspire "world-changing" all year round, but still have a place for the Common Core Standards.  It's a great read and Nielsen covers a variety of awesome organizations aimed at getting students to help change the world.


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Getting Smart has a new post entitled, "Scapbook Showcases a Year of Gains for Virtual Learning."  The post is in response to PublicSchoolOptions.org's report on virtual learning from last week.  The report shows that "State by state, more parents are gaining the option to send their child to a full-time public virtual school."  The scrapbook has a collection of stories and schools from all across the US, showcasing virtual learning.


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Free Tech 4 Teachers has four new posts up from today, all of which are excellent resources worth checking out:
  • Create Magazines with Flipboard (great tool!)
  • Share Ideas for Using Padlet (also a great tool!)
  • StoryToolz - Writing Prompts and More
  • Coffee Time Edu - Ed Tech Tutorial Videos


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Edudemic has a new article discussing "How the 'Library for All' Project May Revolutionize Learning in Developing Countries."  For children growing up in developing countries, having access to books and library materials is many times a complete impossibility.  The goal of Library for All is to "harness the power of technology and mobile phone networks...to give low-cost access to a digital library" for these children across the world.  Check out the Kickstarter for more.

Edudemic also has a write up on "The Great Wall of Awesome" which is "an online space that aims to enhance what you are doing as an educator and facilitate the rich learning of your students."  The goal of the project is to have teachers share one great experience from each week so that over time, the wall of awesome becomes enormous and... well... awesome.  


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Wesley Fryer at Moving at the Speed of Creativity has a new guide on how to "Create a Narrated Slideshow on an iPad with Haiku Deck and Explain Everything."  In the post, he provides a complete walkthrough on how a student can use this combination of apps to create an awesome (and self-narrated) presentation.  Both are great tools and worth checking out if you're not familiar.


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Keely Tenkely over at iLearn Technology is back with a guide to using "Evernote as an ePortfolio: Postachi.io, Voice2Note, StudyBlue."  In the article Tenkely reviews several new add-on apps to Evernote (Evernote is a software suite that helps you store notes, pictures, ideas, pretty much everything).  Tenkely also discusses how a teacher could use these apps to create an awesome, digital, ePortfolio. 


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Ed Reach has a new write-up on "Boundless: Disrupting the Textbook Industry."  The article discusses the current problems with the textbook industry (over 80% of the market is controlled by the top 5 publishers) and introduces an alternative: Boundless.  The goal of Boundless is to create low-cost, high-quality digital textbooks from the best open sources on the internet.  If only this had been around when I was an undergraduate...


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And, of course, we have our daily post about Gamification with Teach Thought's article on "Game-Based Learning is Probably Worth Looking Into." It's an excellent write up on the basics of game-based learning, the hidden-learning that can be embedded within games, and the potential drawbacks of using game-based learning.

Teach Thought also has an interesting read on "The Jarring Collision Between Digital Screens and Close Reading."  The article discusses the importance of "deep reading" and not just clicking from link to link in an endless loop, hyperlinking ourselves to death.  There are some incredibly important points to consider in the article and it's definitely worth your time, especially for reading and language educators.

And Teach Thought also has a brief discussion over a "Diagram of 21st Century Pedagogy."  I've embedded the image below and you can check out the article for a short conversation (you can click for the full-size image).

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If you've been reading the Round Up for a while, you know Jamie Forshey at EduTech for Teachers is a big fan of ThingLink (a tool used to creative interactive/hyperlinked images).  In her post today, "Introducing a Multimedia Mash-Up Masterpiece" Forshey discusses using Thinglink, Animoto, and InstaPlace to create a class project from a recent field trip.  Check out the post for some great ideas!


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And...Finally...If my fingers can keep typing...We've got three new posts from Educational Technology
  • An Infographic on Games vs. Gamification
  • 5 Great Web Tools for Creating Online Quizzes
  • 3 New Video Tools for Teachers


We made it!  What a Round Up!  I'm outta here until tomorrow and if you missed my review from earlier today on Soo Meta, it's a great application  for creating flipped lessons and worth checking out!
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