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The only thing better than having a browser in your pocket, is having the all of the bookmarks, browser history and the open tabs from your desktop or notebook browser in your pocket as well. Now you can! Mozilla Labs has worked up a nifty iPhone App that uses their Weave Sync technology to put [...] Apple has finally taken the wraps off the iPad, a device that many in the edtech community have been eagerly awaiting. Is it, as some have opined, the perfect machine around which to build a K-12 1:1 computing program? I’m sure we will see some school adoptions, but there are problems. Not [...] The Mozilla Foundation invites you to help turn the open Web into a rich learning environment and explore new possibilities for learning online as part of the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge. For this Design Challenge they are looking for innovative Firefox add-ons that turn the open Web into a rich learning environment. Jetpack [...] The best lunches are those that provide more food for thought than food for my already overweight frame. My favorite lunches used to be those put on by Lunch 2.0 which mixes lunch with a presentation or a panel discussion at an interesting technology company somewhere around the valley. They almost always attract an interesting [...] Mark Surman and others at Mozilla have been mulling over Drumbeat, an effort to promote awareness of the benefits of an open web. In his most recent blog post, Mark asks “what concrete things could Mozilla and Drumbeat do to support people creating civic and social value on the web?” …and he has posted [...] Mozilla Labs has a plug-in for the awesome Firefox browser that helps them collect information about how people use the browser. As with all things Mozilla, the Test Pilot plug-in is open. It shows you all of the data it has collected and lets you decide whether or not to send it along to [...] It’s a common misconception that the web isn’t a useful educational tool for very young students, particularly pre-readers. That is simply not true. Over the last year and a half, I’ve been working on a project called Curiosity Clubhouse that uses computers, both in the classroom and at home, to help kindergarten students learn. [...] There are some projects over at Mozilla Labs that just might make it possible to turn Firefox into the “killer-app” for K-12 education, both in North America, and around the world. JetPack is a set of tools for extending the browser using open, standards-based technologies like CSS, HTML, and Javascript. The folks over at AcademicBenchmarks.org have posted a report card on U.S. curriculum standards publishing efforts. It’s important reading for anyone interested in improving K-12 education in this country. Their Standards Digital Deployment Report is an assessment of how well each state does in the digital deployment of curriculum standards. The report rates [...] Tom Greaves (@twgreaves) and I are working on this year’s Mobile Trends Report for the Software & Information Industry Association’s Education Division. Big issues this year include: The blossoming of Netbooks in the education market that was just beginning last year at this time. |
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