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Mozilla Drumbeat is a global community of people and projects using technology to help internet users understand, participate and take control of their online lives. I’ve done a bit of head-scratching over what one possible Drumbeat project aimed at K-12 education might look like. If you have an interest in helping K-12 education make better [...] 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 [...] 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. 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. Need to explain to your school board why you need to “recontextualize experiential multiple modality instruction” or how you plan to “synthesize metacognitive functionalities” in next year’s curriculum? You need to
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