Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 11/17/2010
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OK, some of the demos are cheesy but let's get some real videos up here. google demo slam lets demo videos of google products battle it out. the videos up there now (except the first date wonder wheel guy) are lacking authenticity but we are supposed to be able to upload our own.
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Students talking about HIV between Namibia and US Maryland. Namibia has a 25% HIV rate with Baltimore MD 2.5% (washington DC has the highest incidence in the US with 3%). This was presented at the Global Education Conference with Hass and Ussa Blake.
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The Centre for Global Education
Some fascinating activities going on at the centre for global collaboration.
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Reading books and sharing information using videoconferencing. Cool Global collaboration sharing mentioned in the Global Education Conference.
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Jaye Albright's Breakfast Blog: Alarming - Annotated
I find it funny that radio stations are concerned because kids are using their cell phones as their alarm clocks in the morning. They could use cell phones as calculators, dictionaries, and translators -- oops, I forgot, we don't allow them in schools.
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Wake Forest Goes “Unplugged” - Annotated
Some communities and towns are going unplugged and pledging to not use cell phones and/or social media. This is fascinating and actually, I think can be very healthy as we learn to balance technology.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
