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Arkansas’ LISA Academy Renews Partnership with Global Edtech Leader Supporting Student Success

eSchool News

Established in 2004, all 11 schools across the state are accredited by the Arkansas Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Discovery Education is the global edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports instruction wherever it takes place.

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Feelings During FLOW-Related Learning

User Generated Education

Consequently, compared to less engaged peers, engaged students demonstrate more effort, experience more positive emotions and pay more attention in the classroom (Fredricks, Blumenfeld, & Paris, 2004). Encouraging Positive Student Engagement and Motivation: Tips for Teachers ). Deep and meaningful learning occurs within a context.

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Weekend Reading: Pollen Edition

ProfHacker

" " Palantir Knows Everything About You ," by Peter Waldman, Lizette Chapman, and Jordan Robertson ( Bloomberg ): "Founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel and some fellow PayPal alumni, Palantir cut its teeth working for the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq. Whose digital utopia does ‘openness’ represent?"

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What Do You Mean I Can't Twitter?

The Web20Classroom

The post deals with a ban of social media during the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Society Cell Biology. One such case involves Social Media Researcher Danah Boyd. There are also some cases going as far back as 2004 where the audience, using a backchannel, disrupted a presentation. At the Web 2.0

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Flogging the Dead Horse of RSS

techlearning

All I had to do was click a subscribe button and whenever I had a moment could go to my aggregator Bloglines, Google Reader (which was still the best) and currently Feedly and see any updated or added content. This journey started in 2004. I don’t use RSS the way I did in 2004. And I think it’s true.

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Transparency is the New Black

The Daring Librarian

Now, before we start I gotta add that this is by NO MEANS a checklist of 8 social media things you have to do ! No social media guilt from me or my blog dear friend! I''m just worried that with Google buying Picnik & leaving Flickr now Yahoo might screw up its totally awesome creation.

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Teaching Geopolitics: Fantasy Football as a Learning Game

MindShift

He had been playing since 2004—his teams were back-to-back Super Bowl champions in 2005 and 2006—so he knew the game intimately. As the game caught on, Nelson began automating it, moving from a simple Google spreadsheet to a full-blown news tracker keyed to mentions in the New York Times.