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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

FY 2003 $700,500,000. “ FY 2008 $267,500,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). FY 2010 $100,000,000. Rationale for Obama administration FY 2010 program funding reduction : “ The proposed reduction of $169.9 National Educational Technology Trends Study: Local-Level Data Summary (SRI International, 2008).

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020), you will probably have these characteristics: "You see roadblocks as opportunities, and you have tons of creativity that keeps you from getting bored. Zodiac animal: Rat Rat in Chinese culture is associated with affluence, wealth, and surplus. If you were born in the Goat year (e.g.,1931,

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

Learning with 'e's

One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). Vaidhyanathan (2008) argues that ‘there is no such thing as a digital generation.’

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

Learning with 'e's

One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). Vaidhyanathan (2008) argues that ‘there is no such thing as a digital generation.’

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Live Thursday Dec. 9th with Julie Young from Florida Virtual School

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Thursday, December 9th, 2010 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am (next day) GMT ( international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate. In 2003, she was inducted into the USDLA “Hall of Fame.” In 2003, her school was named as one of the WebSmart Top 50 organizations by Business Week Magazine.

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Live Tonight in Elluminate - Students on Homework

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Thursday, October 14th, 2010 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate. Cushman’s latest book is Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery (Jossey-Bass, 2010). Come share your own ideas and strategies!

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Shifting From Pedagogy To Heutagogy In Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

The power to learn Heutagogy has come a long way since its initial inception over a bottle of wine and notes written on a napkin in a restaurant in 2000 (Hase, 2002, 2009; Hase and Kenyon, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010; Kenyon and Hase, 2010). Blaschke, 2012; Canning, 2010; Canning and Callan, 2010).