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"The WHS Innovation and Integration site is an information hub for the Wiscasset High School learning community. You find much here, from resources our learning community is using or thinking of using, learning design ideas, networked learning, and courses for our eLearning and Information Studies department. This site's author is Thomas Steele-Maley. You can find him via email at tsteelemaley AT svrsu DOT org. "
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Education Evolving” lays out plan to engage students, give them more say in how they learn
"AUGUSTA – Students will play a more active role in organizing their own learning and have more choice – such as internships, inter-disciplinary classes, independent study, and vocational education – in how they learn and achieve standards, according to a strategic plan for education unveiled by Maine ‘s education commissioner on Tuesday."
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To mark Cyber Security Awareness Month, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and Media Awareness Network (MNet) launched a new teaching unit to help students develop safe and secure online practices.
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"The Middle Grades Network recognizes the unique needs of gifted middle grades learners and educators. Middle school is the level at which gifted students face great challenges to full development of their potential and is a time when a large number of gifted students, particularly girls and minority students, begin to underachieve in response to perceived societal and peer pressures. The Network recognizes the need to develop appropriate strategies for working with these students. To address these concerns, the Network works in the areas of curriculum, instruction, research, and communication and dissemination, to assist students, teachers, and administrators as they endeavor to make the middle school years a positive and challenging experience for gifted students. "
"Students are smart, creative, and filled with good ideas for improving schools."
Lucy Gray Resource: mLearning with iPads and iPods.
"Today Pearson, the publishing and learning technology group, has teamed up with the software giant Google to launch OpenClass, a free LMS that combines standard course-management tools with advanced social networking and community-building, and an open architecture that allows instructors to import whatever material they want, from e-books to YouTube videos. The program will launch through Google Apps for Education, a very popular e-mail, calendar, and document-sharing service that has more than 1,000 higher-education customers, and it will be hosted by Pearson with the intent of freeing institutions from the burden of providing resources to run it."
"This online course covers database design and the use of database management systems for applications. It includes extensive coverage of the relational model, relational algebra, and SQL -- the standard language for creating, querying, and modifying relational databases. It also covers XML data including DTDs and XML Schema for validation, and the query and transformation languages XPath, XQuery, and XSLT. The course includes database design in UML, and relational design principles based on dependencies and normal forms. Many additional key database topics from the design and application-building perspective are also covered: indexes, views, transactions, authorization, integrity constraints, triggers, on-line analytical processing (OLAP), and emerging "NoSQL" systems. Further topics will be added over time."
"references that we consider to have a wider relevance to mobile learning. In particular you will find all literature that was cited in the book 'Mobile Learning: Structures, Agency, Practices' (Springer, 2010). "
MoLeaP - The mobile learning project database is a public and free-of-charge online database for teachers, researchers and other (education) professionals interested in learning and teaching with mobile media. The concept behind MoLeaP builds on LMLG's research on mobile learning