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Silicon Valley Youth Voice Opinions on Technology & More
“I couldn’t do anything without the Internet,” is a sentiment echoed by the panelists on the youth panel at 2011 Media Innovations Summit. Bad news for providers of land line telephones, as several of the youth cited lack of convenience and reliability as reasons they prefer cell phones to land lines. On the other hand,…
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A Cost Effective Way to Use 3DTV as a Teaching Tool
Look closely at the background of this video and you will see an autostereoscopic 3D display. The cool thing about this type of display is that one doesn’t need glasses to view the 3D images. As explained by Rob Koplin of Elixir XES 3D, the first application for the displays was in the medical industry…
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Learning Communities Within a High School
Designed around five small learning interests, Colleton County High School in Walterboro, South Carolina is a different kind of high school. Cliff Warren, Colleton County High School’s principal, talks about the unique design of this campus, as well as its academic approach of preparing students for career and college. With five schools within a school, it…
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Moving from an Agrarian Calendar
“We can’t get there from here,” according to Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and current president of the Alliance for Excellent Education. He was referring to the challenge of improving an education system that has stagnant state budgets, teachers that are retiring and the need to do a better job teaching a wider…
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Blended Learning Explained
“In its simplest form, it [blended learning] is the combination of face-to-face instruction and online or digital tools,” explains Lisa Gillis of Integrated Educational Strategies at the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s 2012 National Summit. It is about having individualized learning plans, as well as a personal touch of a teacher. Blended learning provides teachers with…
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An Electrifying New Broadband Service
Eric Bruno of Verizon discusses their home monitoring and control solution at the 2011 Parks Associates’ Connections in this exclusive video interview.
