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Free computer training resources and courses

Educational Technology Guy

The Office 2010 course is great and I am sharing it with our users to help them transition from Office 2003 to Office 2010 because of the different menu system. The computer courses page has 19 courses including Computer Basics, Email, Internet, Social Media, Google Apps, iPads, and much more.

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It’s A Smartphone Life: More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Have One

MindShift

These stats come from a new, nationally representative survey of media use among children ages 8-18, by Common Sense Media, which has been tracking this since 2003. And then I ended up Googling them … and it went downhill from there!” And girls also report liking social media much more than boys do.

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Education Technology and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Hack Education

Google and Facebook are paradigmatic here, and Zuboff argues that the former was instrumental in discovering the value of behavioral surplus when it began, circa 2003, using user data to fine-tune ad targeting and to make predictions about which ads users would click on. I don’t buy it.

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The future of intelligence

Learning with 'e's

Futurologist Ray Kurzweil's argument looks beyond these issues, holding that the tools we have available to us as a result of networked social media and personal devices, actually enable us to increase our cognitive abilities. 2003) Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence. Jonassen, D.

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). By using Google Drive or Archive.org , media can be made available for students to download offline, when they may be without a WiFi connection as well as for those students with limited data plans. ANDERSON, T (2003). References: Brooks, D.C.

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5 things I’m embarrassed to tell you

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I have lots of days when it’s hard for me to get motivated, and I am especially distracted by social media. I started sharing ideas online back in 2003, and both education and the world in general changes so quickly every year. Subscribe to the podcast in Google Play. Plus, I am constantly learning and growing.

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The breaking point that led to my sabbatical (and what’s next)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

It was a slow process over the course of the month of January — mapping out the podcast season, working on the February materials for 40 Hour, planning out some stuff to share via email and social media. I am not the same person I was in 2003, or 2010, or 2015, and the person I’ll be a few years from now will be different, too.