Tag: Education Technology

  • Cory Doctorow’s Newest OpEd on Privacy

    You Are Not a Digital Native: Privacy in the Age of the Internet by Cory Doctorow | Tor.com This is a great essay about what privacy means to the youth of today and how you can be more private but less safe on the internet.

  • Linux turns 20!

    Today, 20 years ago, Linus Torvald published his first edition of the Linux Kernel with limited fanfare. For those who don’t know you can run Linux based Operating Systems on almost any computer for free. Some examples include: Ubuntu Linux Mint Suse Debian Fedora Red Hat Related articles Linux Turns 20 years Old Today (omgubuntu.co.uk)…

  • RePost from WordPress Update Blog

    Now More Than Ever: Just Write. The new updates are a wonderful addition and make my schoolwork, just that much easier to accomplish. Now is the time to switch to WordPress for anyone thinking about it. In the past, I promoted Blogger and Wikispaces for all my classroom needs but now I find myself squarely…

  • Va. Board of Education urges policy on social networks as teaching tools – The Washington Post

    Va. Board of Education urges policy on social networks as teaching tools – The Washington Post. Kimiya Haghighi, 17, had a prose problem. As much as her teachers preached concise writing, her sentences remained long and overwrought — the words poured out, unpunctuated, one after another. Then Aubrey Ludwig, her 11th-grade English teacher at Langley…

  • ReBlog of Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Facebook Friending 101 for Schools

    This is an excerpt from CoolCat Teacher’s Blog on Facebook and its new reality in the classroom space. I highly recommend everyone follow the pingback at the bottom of my excerpt and read the entire article. Great work on a complicated and touchy subject in some schools. Facebook has added an incredible complexity to our…

  • ReBlog Ars Tehcnica: Woz tells teachers to us tech!

    For years, i have been a fan of Steve Wozniak, the Woz. Even though he doesn’t call the shots in Cupertino, lots of people in the industry look to him for advice. After reading about this interview I was pleasantly surprised. Woz, Apple, and education make for a great Combination During a conference for educators…