Houtman's Thoughts on Education and Technology

Air, Food, Water, Internet – Cisco Study Reveals Just How Important Internet and Networks Have Become as Fundamental Resources in Daily Life. 

Make sure to check out the infographic too.

If you didn't get a chance to see this last night on 60 Minutes - it's worth it.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

- Steve Jobs

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This is from the "I wish I knew about this yesterday" file.  I stumbled upon the CloudMagic plug-in for Chrome and it's almost a shame that it's not already built into or implemented into the 'Google Operating System'.  Instead of a long post on the fantastic integrated search capibilities and what it does, watch this quick overview:

A portion of Cory Doctorow speaking at a TEDxObserver conference on how we teach kids to undervalue their privacy through excessive filtering, instead of helping them learn about digital citizenship.

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Via Mind/Shift and WQED - 21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020

6. DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION AS A SIGN OF DISTINGUISHED TEACHER
The 21st century is customizable. In ten years, the teacher who hasn’t yet figured out how to use tech to personalize learning will be the teacher out of a job. Differentiation won’t make you ‘distinguished’; it’ll just be a natural part of your work.

If you are not using UDL in your job right now as a teacher, then you are guilty of educational malpractice.

When I see stats and infographics like this, I wonder why schools would want to buy a consumption only device versus a creation machine, which also lets you consume content.  Certainly cost is an issue - but when I compare a $139 Kindle or a $499 iPad to a $399 15" laptop, which are all over the Sunday sales circulars today, I'd certainly want the laptop for kids.

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