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The app also includes several testimonials from art historians and other artists. (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/van-goghs-dream/id477595323?mt=8\">iTunes link\u003c/a>). iOS, $9.99\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EDUCREATIONS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://educreations.com\">Educreations\u003c/a> is a new app designed to make it easy to create, narrate, and record whiteboard video tutorials and to share them with others. A Web-base version of the app has been available for some time now, but the native iPad app was released this month -- and it's easier to write on a whiteboard with your finger than it is with a mouse. There are several other interactive whiteboard apps available on the iPad, but Educreations' app offers several features that set it apart from its competitors: lessons can have multiple pages; you can add images to the tutorials — from the iPad camera, from its Photo Library, or from Dropbox; you can move and resize images while you record. The ability to create via a Web browser — any Web browser — and not just via a tablet is a really important thing to consider too when looking to adopt this tool for a classroom. (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/educreations-interactive-whiteboard/id478617061?mt=8\">iTunes link\u003c/a>). iOS and Web, Free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anything we missed?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let us know in the comments!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Mindsnacks' Spanish language learning app was chosen by Apple as \u003c!--more-->one of the best education apps of 2011 (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-chinese-mandarin-mindsnacks/id485803286?mt=8\">iTunes link\u003c/a>). iOS, Free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/12/awesome-apps-for-science-experiments-storytelling-coding-and-more/miniminute/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17791\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17791\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/miniminute.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>MINI MINUTE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard to pick one app from the new educational game-maker \u003ca href=\"http://airylabs.com/\">Airy Labs\u003c/a> to feature here, particularly as the startup updated all seven of its apps this month. The startups mobile games all feature delightful artwork and game-play, built by a smart team of cognitive neuroscientists. One of its apps, Mini Minute, helps children learn to tell time. It features a Stonehenge-like ring of rocks which the player must defend against invading monsters. (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mini-minute/id475250350?mt=8\">iTunes link\u003c/a>). iOS, Free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EXPLORIMENTS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long known for its Flash-based educational content, \u003ca href=\"http://exploriments.com\">Exploriments\u003c/a> launched 3 science education apps for the iPad this month: Weight, Mass and Force of Gravity (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/exploriments-weight-mass-force/id483875230?mt=8\">iTunes link\u003c/a>), Fluids - Archimedes Principle, Buoyancy and Flotation (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/exploriments-fluids-archimedes/id483896866?mt=8\">iTunes link\u003c/a>), and Electrostatics - Coulomb's Law (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/exploriments-electrostatics/id483991925?mt=8\">iTunes link\u003c/a>). The apps offer simulated experiments with a wide range of variability and interactions. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/12/the-touchy-feely-future-of-technology/6226457945_25fbf1675c_z/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17790\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17790\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/6226457945_25fbf1675c_z-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr: maxcosworth\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch5>By NPR Staff\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In 1975, when then-composer and performer \u003ca href=\"http://billbuxton.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Buxton\u003c/a> started designing his own digital musical instruments, he had no way of knowing he was helping to spark the next technological revolution. But nine years — and a master's in computer science — later, that all changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wasn't trying to make a computer interface, I was just trying to make a drum,\" Buxton tells NPR's Robert Siegel. \"Did I envision what was going to happen today, that it would be in everybody's pocket — in their smartphone? Absolutely not. Did we realize that things were going to be different, that you could do things that we never imagined? ... Absolutely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Buxton is known as a pioneer in human-computer interaction, a field of computer science that has seen a spike in consumer demand thanks to a new, seemingly ubiquitous technology: Touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the technology, media and telecommunications company \u003ca href=\"http://www.ihs.com/products/isuppli/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">IHS iSuppli\u003c/a>, global shipments of touch-screen cellphones and tablets have gone from 244 million units to 630 million units in just two years. This year, iPad sales nearly quadrupled compared to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 140px\">\u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=227\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-17777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/IMG_0558-140x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Casio AT 550 watch\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/12/23/144185699/timeline-a-history-of-touch-screen-technology\">Read more about the history of touch-screen technology as it has evolved over the years. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But if you ask Bill Buxton, the touch explosion has been long in the making. It's part of a theory he calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2008/id2008012_297369.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Long Nose of Innovation\u003c/a> and it says that much of the innovation behind any technological breakthrough actually takes place over a long period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buxton became part of the long nose of touch technology when, in 1977, he signed up to study computer science at the University of Toronto. Today, Buxton is \u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/bibuxton/\" target=\"_blank\">principal researcher at Microsoft Research\u003c/a>, but he says the fact that he started out as a musician and not a technology insider has been invaluable to his work in computer science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just your imagination that's driving it and you're not trying to be so deliberate,\" he says. \"That usually just makes you get uptight, constrained and it's far better just to find something you love doing, chase it down and the rest will just fall out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sci-Fi: Boldly Going Where No Science Has Gone Before\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To many, the tablet computer seems new. But NPR's Laura Sydell reports that the idea for a flat, personal computer shaped like a book has actually been around for a long time. Just think of Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 novel \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/139095392/2001-a-space-odyssey\" target=\"_blank\">2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/a> in which space travelers follow news on Earth via a \"Newspad\" that downloads the world's major electronic papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clarke's newspads also show up in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film by the same name, where the fictional devices look so much like an iPad that today \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/24/139925696/samsung-objects-to-ipad-patent-saying-stanley-kubrick-came-up-with-it-first\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung says it proves their Galaxy Tab isn't a rip off of Apple's iPad\u003c/a>. They've even included a link to a YouTube clip from the film in their court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before \u003cem>Space Odyssey\u003c/em>, tablet computers had already appeared in 1966 on the original \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em>. The first iteration was called an electronic clipboard and was used to control the ship. Around 1989, it was redesigned to ultimately do a lot of the same things iPads do today; \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVqHoGKQXLI&feature=player_embedded#%21\">the show's characters used it\u003c/a> to read books, look at reports and send messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usability expert Kevin Fox says he's not surprised science fiction writers came up with the tablet before science did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think science fiction is the brainstorming part of science,\" Fox says. \"Look at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/authors/139110060/jules-verne\">Jules Verne\u003c/a> for example. He's talking about going to the moon; he's talking about submarines, that sort of thing. It's a lot easier to do that than it is to hold your tongue ... until you've actually made a rocket that can go to the moon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How iPads Are Changing The Classroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the iPad \u003cem>does\u003c/em> exist, people are finding a lot of practical applications for it. Jamestown Elementary School in Arlington County, Va., has a growing cache of iPads, about 100 for 600 students. The school uses its tablets for everything from writing to math to reading graphic novels. \u003c!--more-->But NPR's Larry Abramson reports that in one classroom the iPad has been a real game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special education assistant Lesley McKeever uses an iPad to get her student, an affectionate autistic boy who can't speak, to learn to connect words with images by touching the right picture on the screen. Touch technology has been so helpful for students with autism that Arlington County provides enough iPads for every student in the special education classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>\u003c/h5>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003ch5>Four Ways Technology Will Change Our Lives In The Future\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Technology experts Mike McSherry, CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/12/26/144146395/%5C%5C%5C%5C%5C%22http://www.swype.com/%5C%5C%5C%5C%5C%22\">Swype\u003c/a>, and Bill Buxton make their predictions for where technology will go next. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Gesture Technology:\u003c/strong> \"I think you're going to be able to do things with your head or your eyes,\" McSherry tells Robert Siegel. \"Maybe you're interacting with your laptop right in front of you and it's got a little camera that looks back at you. Right now that's only used for video chat and I think that's going to become more of an interpretive camera that identifies gestures while interacting with your common laptop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Personal Profile Models: \u003c/strong>\"I think you're going to have personal profile models that follow you around. Your language is different than someone else's language and as you interact with a phone or a tablet or your car, your language is going to be different in all those different contextual environments,\" McSherry says. \"You're gonna build that profile with you and if you pick up a new device, you want to take that learned knowledge and behavior with you. You don't want to train it up from scratch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. The Cloud:\u003c/strong> \"Stand-alone devices are essentially going away,\" McSherry says. \"The phone's all connected; tablets you either have the Wi-Fi or cellular connection in there and you're also going to store settings up in the cloud, where the more I know about how you interact with something, the better I'm going to be able to predict future behavior of that. And I think people are going to want that ease of interaction and known preferences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. True Window Shopping:\u003c/strong> Researcher Bill Buxton says,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\"I imagine in the future that we truly will have window shopping in the sense that you walk down the street and you can actually see some clothing and use your mobile to pass over your dimensions and you'll be able to on a screen see that piece of clothing, how well it fits your body shape, walking around through some avatar and then have it purchased and delivered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>According to Apple, more than 2,300 school districts in the U.S. have iPad programs for students or teachers. But the benefits of having iPads in the classroom don't come free. Teachers say you have to invest time into the technology in order to get something out of it, which means much of the iPad's usefulness will depend on the applications both teachers and publishers discover as adoption grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Jury's Still Out On Tablets In Hospitals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals are also exploring the usefulness of iPads. At the University of California, San Diego Hospital, physician's assistant Kate Franko uses an iPad 2 to update a patient who just received a brand new kidney on his recovery. She pulls up a graph of blood tests that charts how well his new kidney is working, then a chest X-ray from a few days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It shouldn't come as a surprise that tablets are starting to find their way into hospitals, but Jenny Gold of NPR partner Kaiser Health News reports that their usefulness in the medical profession is still an open question. There are concerns about spotty wireless in hospitals, distracted doctors and the security of patient records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Mack of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.westwirelesshealth.org/\" target=\"_blank\">West Wireless Health Institute\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that works to lower the cost of health care through new technology, says another reason more hospitals aren't using tablets is that they've already invested millions into electronic record systems that aren't compatible with tablets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In order to go back around and deploy these on iPads with full functionality,\" Mack says, \"it requires [that hospitals] cough up a lot more money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And hospitals won't be willing to do that when they aren't even sure that tablets will make things easier. In the meantime, even pioneers like Franko are hedging their bets. In addition to her iPad and two iPhones, she also carries a good old-fashioned pager around — just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Living The Fantasy Of Touch\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals aren't the only ones expressing hesitation about touch. Professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.mit.edu/%7Esturkle/\" target=\"_blank\">Sherry Turkle\u003c/a>, director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, sees the rise of technology like smartphones as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/02/25/134059283/have-we-grown-too-fond-of-technology\" target=\"_blank\">cause for concern\u003c/a>. She says touch devices are more than just the latest in a sequence of high-tech distractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the touch pad is a very important moment because the touch pad makes our devices feel more like an extension of ourselves,\" Turkle tells Robert Siegel. \"We feel anxious when we're not in contact [and] we feel a kind of psychic permission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A psychic permission to, say, text in the middle of a class or even at a funeral. That's because whipping out your touch-screen smartphone is a lot more discreet then whipping out your laptop. And if touch-screen texting isn't subtle enough, Turkle says she knows of people who are trying to perfect the technique of texting without breaking eye-contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is becoming a new, highly valued social skill,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(In keeping with Bill Buxton's Long Nose theory, so-called blind texting technology has actually been around for a while — since 1984, to be exact. That's the year Casio released the \u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=227\" target=\"_blank\">AT-550 watch\u003c/a> which allowed users to write character over character on the watch in order to control calculator functions. According to Buxton, \"Incredibly subtle texting is there just waiting for somebody to make a product. There's no impediment to that.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without blind texting, there's something almost instinctual about the relationship people are developing with their technology. Turkle says that's because touch-screen devices appeal to a sentiment that pretty much everyone can relate to: the desire to be a kid again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The] fantasy of using your body to control the virtual is a child's fantasy of their body being connected to the world,\" Turkle says. \"That's the child's earliest experience of the world and it kind of gets broken up by the reality that you're separate from the world. And what these phones do is bring back that fantasy in the most primitive way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Turkle warns that living in that fantasy world could mean missing out on the real world around you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Surface: The Next 'Bingo' Moment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it's clear that the fantasy world of touch technology isn't going anywhere. Samsung and Microsoft have just released a new product that's bound to once again change the way many people interact with computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's called the Samsung SUR40, or Microsoft's Surface, and while it looks a lot like a table, it's actually a multi-touch computer. The Surface at the Microsoft facility in Reston, Va., has a screen saver that makes it look like a pool of water. When you wave your hands over it, the water ripples in response. But when your hands approach the screen, a menu turns to face you. If someone across the table moves \u003cem>their\u003c/em> hands to the monitor, the menu turns to face \u003cem>them\u003c/em>. That's because the Surface can actually see your hand approaching it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is it a display that can present graphical information to you, each pixel can be thought of as like a camera element in a digital camera, or scanner,\" says Bill Buxton, who came up with the idea for Surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buxton explains the way Surface works as being similar to how two paper cups connected by a piece of string can serve as walkie-talkies. In the walkie-talkie scenario, each cup is used as both a microphone to speak into and a speaker to hear what the other person is saying. Somewhere around 1992, Buxton says he started wondering if the same thing could be done with light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I asked an engineer who was way smarter than me, 'Could that be done?' and the answer was 'Yes,'\" Buxton recalls. \"In essence Surface is the first device that really has taken that approach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buxton explains that the Surface monitor is made of up pixels that can both display images and read them. So if you hold a piece of paper face-down on the monitor, it can tell you what it says — and that's pretty groundbreaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That opens up a whole new realm of interaction that is something that some of us have been working on for over a decade, and dreamed about maybe 20 years ago,\" Buxton says. \"And bingo, it's starting to be manufactured.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/12/the-touchy-feely-future-of-technology/6226457945_25fbf1675c_z/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17790\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17790\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/6226457945_25fbf1675c_z-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr: maxcosworth\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch5>By NPR Staff\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In 1975, when then-composer and performer \u003ca href=\"http://billbuxton.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Buxton\u003c/a> started designing his own digital musical instruments, he had no way of knowing he was helping to spark the next technological revolution. But nine years — and a master's in computer science — later, that all changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wasn't trying to make a computer interface, I was just trying to make a drum,\" Buxton tells NPR's Robert Siegel. \"Did I envision what was going to happen today, that it would be in everybody's pocket — in their smartphone? Absolutely not. Did we realize that things were going to be different, that you could do things that we never imagined? ... Absolutely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Buxton is known as a pioneer in human-computer interaction, a field of computer science that has seen a spike in consumer demand thanks to a new, seemingly ubiquitous technology: Touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the technology, media and telecommunications company \u003ca href=\"http://www.ihs.com/products/isuppli/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">IHS iSuppli\u003c/a>, global shipments of touch-screen cellphones and tablets have gone from 244 million units to 630 million units in just two years. This year, iPad sales nearly quadrupled compared to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 140px\">\u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=227\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-17777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/IMG_0558-140x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Casio AT 550 watch\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/12/23/144185699/timeline-a-history-of-touch-screen-technology\">Read more about the history of touch-screen technology as it has evolved over the years. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But if you ask Bill Buxton, the touch explosion has been long in the making. It's part of a theory he calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2008/id2008012_297369.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Long Nose of Innovation\u003c/a> and it says that much of the innovation behind any technological breakthrough actually takes place over a long period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buxton became part of the long nose of touch technology when, in 1977, he signed up to study computer science at the University of Toronto. Today, Buxton is \u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/bibuxton/\" target=\"_blank\">principal researcher at Microsoft Research\u003c/a>, but he says the fact that he started out as a musician and not a technology insider has been invaluable to his work in computer science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just your imagination that's driving it and you're not trying to be so deliberate,\" he says. \"That usually just makes you get uptight, constrained and it's far better just to find something you love doing, chase it down and the rest will just fall out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sci-Fi: Boldly Going Where No Science Has Gone Before\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To many, the tablet computer seems new. But NPR's Laura Sydell reports that the idea for a flat, personal computer shaped like a book has actually been around for a long time. Just think of Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 novel \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/139095392/2001-a-space-odyssey\" target=\"_blank\">2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/a> in which space travelers follow news on Earth via a \"Newspad\" that downloads the world's major electronic papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clarke's newspads also show up in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film by the same name, where the fictional devices look so much like an iPad that today \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/24/139925696/samsung-objects-to-ipad-patent-saying-stanley-kubrick-came-up-with-it-first\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung says it proves their Galaxy Tab isn't a rip off of Apple's iPad\u003c/a>. They've even included a link to a YouTube clip from the film in their court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before \u003cem>Space Odyssey\u003c/em>, tablet computers had already appeared in 1966 on the original \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em>. The first iteration was called an electronic clipboard and was used to control the ship. Around 1989, it was redesigned to ultimately do a lot of the same things iPads do today; \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVqHoGKQXLI&feature=player_embedded#%21\">the show's characters used it\u003c/a> to read books, look at reports and send messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usability expert Kevin Fox says he's not surprised science fiction writers came up with the tablet before science did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think science fiction is the brainstorming part of science,\" Fox says. \"Look at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/authors/139110060/jules-verne\">Jules Verne\u003c/a> for example. He's talking about going to the moon; he's talking about submarines, that sort of thing. It's a lot easier to do that than it is to hold your tongue ... until you've actually made a rocket that can go to the moon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How iPads Are Changing The Classroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the iPad \u003cem>does\u003c/em> exist, people are finding a lot of practical applications for it. Jamestown Elementary School in Arlington County, Va., has a growing cache of iPads, about 100 for 600 students. The school uses its tablets for everything from writing to math to reading graphic novels. \u003c!--more-->But NPR's Larry Abramson reports that in one classroom the iPad has been a real game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special education assistant Lesley McKeever uses an iPad to get her student, an affectionate autistic boy who can't speak, to learn to connect words with images by touching the right picture on the screen. Touch technology has been so helpful for students with autism that Arlington County provides enough iPads for every student in the special education classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>\u003c/h5>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003ch5>Four Ways Technology Will Change Our Lives In The Future\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Technology experts Mike McSherry, CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/12/26/144146395/%5C%5C%5C%5C%5C%22http://www.swype.com/%5C%5C%5C%5C%5C%22\">Swype\u003c/a>, and Bill Buxton make their predictions for where technology will go next. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Gesture Technology:\u003c/strong> \"I think you're going to be able to do things with your head or your eyes,\" McSherry tells Robert Siegel. \"Maybe you're interacting with your laptop right in front of you and it's got a little camera that looks back at you. Right now that's only used for video chat and I think that's going to become more of an interpretive camera that identifies gestures while interacting with your common laptop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Personal Profile Models: \u003c/strong>\"I think you're going to have personal profile models that follow you around. Your language is different than someone else's language and as you interact with a phone or a tablet or your car, your language is going to be different in all those different contextual environments,\" McSherry says. \"You're gonna build that profile with you and if you pick up a new device, you want to take that learned knowledge and behavior with you. You don't want to train it up from scratch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. The Cloud:\u003c/strong> \"Stand-alone devices are essentially going away,\" McSherry says. \"The phone's all connected; tablets you either have the Wi-Fi or cellular connection in there and you're also going to store settings up in the cloud, where the more I know about how you interact with something, the better I'm going to be able to predict future behavior of that. And I think people are going to want that ease of interaction and known preferences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. True Window Shopping:\u003c/strong> Researcher Bill Buxton says,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\"I imagine in the future that we truly will have window shopping in the sense that you walk down the street and you can actually see some clothing and use your mobile to pass over your dimensions and you'll be able to on a screen see that piece of clothing, how well it fits your body shape, walking around through some avatar and then have it purchased and delivered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>According to Apple, more than 2,300 school districts in the U.S. have iPad programs for students or teachers. But the benefits of having iPads in the classroom don't come free. Teachers say you have to invest time into the technology in order to get something out of it, which means much of the iPad's usefulness will depend on the applications both teachers and publishers discover as adoption grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Jury's Still Out On Tablets In Hospitals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals are also exploring the usefulness of iPads. At the University of California, San Diego Hospital, physician's assistant Kate Franko uses an iPad 2 to update a patient who just received a brand new kidney on his recovery. She pulls up a graph of blood tests that charts how well his new kidney is working, then a chest X-ray from a few days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It shouldn't come as a surprise that tablets are starting to find their way into hospitals, but Jenny Gold of NPR partner Kaiser Health News reports that their usefulness in the medical profession is still an open question. There are concerns about spotty wireless in hospitals, distracted doctors and the security of patient records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Mack of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.westwirelesshealth.org/\" target=\"_blank\">West Wireless Health Institute\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that works to lower the cost of health care through new technology, says another reason more hospitals aren't using tablets is that they've already invested millions into electronic record systems that aren't compatible with tablets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In order to go back around and deploy these on iPads with full functionality,\" Mack says, \"it requires [that hospitals] cough up a lot more money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And hospitals won't be willing to do that when they aren't even sure that tablets will make things easier. In the meantime, even pioneers like Franko are hedging their bets. In addition to her iPad and two iPhones, she also carries a good old-fashioned pager around — just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Living The Fantasy Of Touch\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals aren't the only ones expressing hesitation about touch. Professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.mit.edu/%7Esturkle/\" target=\"_blank\">Sherry Turkle\u003c/a>, director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, sees the rise of technology like smartphones as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/02/25/134059283/have-we-grown-too-fond-of-technology\" target=\"_blank\">cause for concern\u003c/a>. She says touch devices are more than just the latest in a sequence of high-tech distractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the touch pad is a very important moment because the touch pad makes our devices feel more like an extension of ourselves,\" Turkle tells Robert Siegel. \"We feel anxious when we're not in contact [and] we feel a kind of psychic permission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A psychic permission to, say, text in the middle of a class or even at a funeral. That's because whipping out your touch-screen smartphone is a lot more discreet then whipping out your laptop. And if touch-screen texting isn't subtle enough, Turkle says she knows of people who are trying to perfect the technique of texting without breaking eye-contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is becoming a new, highly valued social skill,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(In keeping with Bill Buxton's Long Nose theory, so-called blind texting technology has actually been around for a while — since 1984, to be exact. That's the year Casio released the \u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=227\" target=\"_blank\">AT-550 watch\u003c/a> which allowed users to write character over character on the watch in order to control calculator functions. According to Buxton, \"Incredibly subtle texting is there just waiting for somebody to make a product. There's no impediment to that.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without blind texting, there's something almost instinctual about the relationship people are developing with their technology. Turkle says that's because touch-screen devices appeal to a sentiment that pretty much everyone can relate to: the desire to be a kid again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The] fantasy of using your body to control the virtual is a child's fantasy of their body being connected to the world,\" Turkle says. \"That's the child's earliest experience of the world and it kind of gets broken up by the reality that you're separate from the world. And what these phones do is bring back that fantasy in the most primitive way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Turkle warns that living in that fantasy world could mean missing out on the real world around you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Surface: The Next 'Bingo' Moment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it's clear that the fantasy world of touch technology isn't going anywhere. Samsung and Microsoft have just released a new product that's bound to once again change the way many people interact with computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's called the Samsung SUR40, or Microsoft's Surface, and while it looks a lot like a table, it's actually a multi-touch computer. The Surface at the Microsoft facility in Reston, Va., has a screen saver that makes it look like a pool of water. When you wave your hands over it, the water ripples in response. But when your hands approach the screen, a menu turns to face you. If someone across the table moves \u003cem>their\u003c/em> hands to the monitor, the menu turns to face \u003cem>them\u003c/em>. That's because the Surface can actually see your hand approaching it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is it a display that can present graphical information to you, each pixel can be thought of as like a camera element in a digital camera, or scanner,\" says Bill Buxton, who came up with the idea for Surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buxton explains the way Surface works as being similar to how two paper cups connected by a piece of string can serve as walkie-talkies. In the walkie-talkie scenario, each cup is used as both a microphone to speak into and a speaker to hear what the other person is saying. 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"content": "\u003ch5>\u003cem>This week, we feature the most popular posts of the year on MindShift.\u003c/em>\u003c/h5>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003ch4>In this post\u003c/h4>\n\u003ch5>\u003ca href=\"#3trends\">The 3 trends:\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#collaborative\">Collaborative\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#techpowered\">Tech-Powered\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#blended\">Blended\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>\u003ca href=\"#whatthesetrendsmean\">What these trends means\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In today's dynamic classrooms, the teaching and learning process is becoming more nuanced, more seamless, and it flows back and forth from students to teachers. Here's a look at current trends in teaching and learning, their implications, and changes to watch for.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Three Key Trends\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"collaborative\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>1. Collaborative.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">If Web 2.0 has taught us anything, it’s to play nicely together. Sure, there are times for buckling down and working alone, but in most cases, the collaborative process boosts everyone's game. In progressives schools across the country, students and teachers are learning from each other in all sorts of ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17762\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17762\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/10_11.15_newtech_0354-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Sharing information and connecting with others -- whether we know them personally or not -- has proven to be \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/11/6-ways-social-media-is-changing-education/\">a powerful tool in education\u003c/a>. Students are collaborating with each other through social media to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/10/telling-tales-together-4-great-collaborative-writing-tools/\">learn more about specific subjects\u003c/a>, to test out ideas and theories, to learn facts, and to gauge each others' opinions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">They're finding each other on their own \u003ca href=\"../2011/01/8-social-media-sites-just-for-kids/\">kid-specific social networking sites\u003c/a>, on their blogs, on \u003ca href=\"http://rusdit.ning.com\">schools' sites\u003c/a>, and of course on \u003ca href=\"http://www.heppell.net/facebook_in_school/\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.whnt.com/news/tech/whnt-michelle-tech-in-schools-central-school-twitter-classroom-history-121610,0,2989708.story\">Twitter\u003c/a>. Though Facebook is still a red herring when it comes to school policy (Massachusetts districts \u003ca href=\"http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1291053&srvc=home&position=emailed\">have threatened to fire teachers\u003c/a> who friend students on Facebook), and educators are split over whether tweeting in class is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/10/moving-beyond-digital-distractions-using-technology-to-enhance-the-classroom-dynamic/\">disruptive or helpful\u003c/a>, the sites continue to be \u003ca href=\"http://bestonlineuniversities.com/2009/13-enlightening-case-studies-of-social-media-in-the-classroom/\">pervasive \u003c/a>in both higher-ed and K-12. Educators know they can grab students' attention where they naturally live outside the classroom -- the online social world, whether or not it's Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\"If you're teaching something that's usually bland and you insert a simple tool that allows students to connect with each other or their peers in other schools and countries whenever they want, you just see kids' faces light up,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.technewsdaily.com/teachers-embracing-social-media-in-the-classroom-0509/\">says\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.technewsdaily.com/teachers-embracing-social-media-in-the-classroom-0509/\">veteran educator \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.technewsdaily.com/teachers-embracing-social-media-in-the-classroom-0509/\">Chris Lehmann\u003c/a> of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scienceleadership.org/\">Science Leadership Academy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5 style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u003cem>Educators Unite\u003c/em>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">But social networking is not just for teens, as evidenced by the 500 million-plus Facebook users. Teachers are \u003ca href=\"http://edublogs.org/\">putting their collective smarts\u003c/a> together to find the best ways of engaging students, using social media to teach everything from \u003ca href=\"http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/the-future-of-reading-and-writing-is-collaborative/\">reading and writing\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.edutopia.org/teaching-shakespeare-digital-media\">Shakespeare\u003c/a>. Educators are also\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/12/award-winning-schools-secret-weapons/\"> using social media to connect \u003c/a>with each other, share ideas, and \u003ca href=\"http://bestonlineuniversities.com/2009/13-enlightening-case-studies-of-social-media-in-the-classroom/\">find the \u003c!--more-->best teaching tools and practices\u003c/a>. Sites like \u003ca href=\"http://www.classroom20.com\">Classroom 2.0, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.teachertube.com\">Teacher Tube\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/teachers/\">PBS Teachers,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.edmodo.com/\">Edmodo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.edutopia.org\">Edutopia\u003c/a>, and countless others are lit up with teachers sharing \u003ca href=\"http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/the-future-of-reading-and-writing-is-collaborative/\">success stories\u003c/a>, asking for advice, and providing support. Collaboration is happening offline, too, at schools where \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/education/11class.html\">educators team-teach \u003c/a>and organize \u003ca href=\"http://edupln.ning.com/\">professional learning networks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Collaboration is also finding its way into \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/three-trends-that-will-shape-the-future-of-curriculum/\">curriculum\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?s=open-source&x=0&y=0\">open-source sites\u003c/a> to which everyone is encouraged to contribute. Working together is woven into the fabric of project-based schools like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scienceleadership.org/\">Science Leadership in Academy\u003c/a>, which focuses on science, technology, math and entrepreneurship, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/napa-new-tech-high/\">Napa New Tech High High\u003c/a>. The idea is simple: by working together, students figure out how to find common ground, balance each others' skills, communicate clearly, and be accountable to the team for their part of the project. Just as they would in the work place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5 style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u003cstrong>Watch for:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(1) Department of Education working to establish a one-stop shop for teacher networks. (2) Commonly accepted guidelines for using YouTube, Facebook, and other social media in schools.\u003c/em>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"techpowered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>2. Tech-Powered.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Pens and pencils are far from obsolete, but forward-thinking educators are finding other interactive tools to grab their students' attention. School programs are built around \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magazine/19video-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss\">teaching how to create video games\u003c/a>. Teachers are using Guitar Hero, \u003ca href=\"http://www.classbrain.com/artteach/publish/teaching_geography_with_geocaching.shtml\">geo-caching\u003c/a> (high-tech scavenger hunt), \u003ca href=\"http://www.googlelittrips.org/\">Google maps for teaching literature\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/10/wii-in-lieu-of-p-e/\">Wii in lieu of P.E\u003c/a>., \u003ca href=\"http://voicethread.com/\">VoiceThread\u003c/a> to communicate, \u003ca href=\"http://www.epals.com\">ePals\u003c/a> and LiveMocha to learn global languages with native speakers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.voki.com/\">Voki\u003c/a> to create avatars of characters in stories, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/12/award-winning-schools-secret-weapons/\">Skype to communicate with peers\u003c/a> from all over the world -- even \u003ca href=\"http://www.arise-project.org/\">augmented reality, \u003c/a>connecting \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/11/04/prwebprweb4729474.DTL\">students to virtual characters\u003c/a>. And that's just \u003ca href=\"www.freetech4teachers.com\">a tiny sampling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"module image right mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/three-trends-that-define-the-future-of-teaching-and-learning/randy-pertiet/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7910\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-7910\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/02/Randy-Pertiet-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"credit\">\u003cem>\u003cem>Flickr:Randy Pertiet\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"caption\">\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Creating media is another noteworthy tech-driven initiative in education. Media permeates our lives, and the better able students are to create and communicate with media, the better connected they'll be to global events and to the working world. To that end, programs like\u003ca href=\"http://www.digitalyouthnetwork.org/\"> Digital Youth Network\u003c/a> focus on teaching students to \u003ca href=\"http://http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/digital-youth-network-program-expands-to-underserved-areas-in-chicago/\">create podcasts, videos, and record music\u003c/a>; and Adobe Youth Voices \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/01/creating-media-connects-kids-to-global-events/\">teaches kids how to make and edit films\u003c/a> and connects them to documentary filmmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Tech-savvy teachers are threading media-making tools into the curriculum with\u003ca href=\"http://www.freetech4teachers.com/\"> free (or cheap) tools\u003c/a>, like comic strip-creation site \u003ca href=\"http://www.toondoo.com/\">ToonDo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"//www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx\">Microsoft Photo Story 3\u003c/a> for slide shows, \u003ca href=\"http://www.soundslides.com/\">SoundSlides\u003c/a> for audio slide shows, \u003ca href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx\">Microsoft Movie Maker\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://voicethread.com/\">VoiceThread\u003c/a> to string together images, videos, and documents, to name just a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Students in high school and \u003ca href=\"http://eportfolio.sfsu.edu/\">college\u003c/a> are using \u003ca href=\"http://www.eportfolio.org/\">digital portfolios\u003c/a> -- the equivalent of resumes -- to showcase the trajectory of their work on websites that link to their assignments, achievements, and course of study, using photos, graphics, spreadsheets and web pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5 style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Watch for: \u003cem>The explosive growth of high-tech companies and venture capitalists investing ever-more capital in the education market. \u003c/em>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"blended\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>3. Blended.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Simply stated, \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304772804575558383085638118.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">blended learning\u003c/a> is combining computers with traditional teaching. Knowing that today's learners are wired at all times, teachers are directing students' natural online proclivity towards schoolwork. It's referred to as different things -- reverse teaching, flip teaching, backwards classroom, or reverse instruction. But it \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/teachers-doing-the-flip-to-help-students-become-learners-531.php\">all means the same thing\u003c/a>: students conduct research, watch videos, participate in collaborative online discussions, and so on at home and at school -- both in K-12 schools and in \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/articles/2011/01/26/your-professor-your-computer-and-you\">colleges and universities.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7915\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/three-trends-that-define-the-future-of-teaching-and-learning/11_1-21_ipad_algebra_0075-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7915\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-7915\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/02/11_1.21_Ipad_Algebra_0075-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watching videos on iPads in class with teacher's guidance.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Teachers use this technique in different ways. Some \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/11/students-learn-in-class-think-and-discuss-at-home/\">assign interactive quizzes\u003c/a> and online collaborative projects at home, some use \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304772804575558383085638118.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">computer time in class\u003c/a>, some assign watching videos and lectures at home and use class time for hands-on projects, some place most of the curriculum online and work one-one-one with students in class. However they choose to do it, the best examples of blended learning programs involve teachers who use home-time online discussions and collaborative projects as fuel for content and discussion in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">This movement is growing quickly -- the Department of Education \u003ca href=\"http://http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304772804575558383085638118.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">plans to spend $30 million \u003c/a>over the next three years to bring blended learning to 400 schools around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5 style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Watch for: \u003cem>Schools using blended learning to save costs on books and supplements.\u003c/em>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"whatthesetrendsmean\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What these trends mean\u003c/h3>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003ch4>Read the rest of this series:\u003c/h4>\n\u003ch5 style=\"background-color: #00c3c6\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/three-trends-that-will-shape-the-future-of-curriculum/\">Curriculum\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003ch5 style=\"background-color: #e76e06\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/three-trends-that-define-the-future-of-teaching-and-learning/\">Teaching and Learning\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003ch5 style=\"background-color: #f32d08\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/how-learning-environments-are-changing/\">Learning Environments\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the growing momentum of these trends, what does it mean for students, teachers, schools, and the education community at large?\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Teachers' and students' relationships are changing, as they learn from each other.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Teachers roles are shifting from owners of information to facilitators and guides to learning.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Educators are finding different ways of using class time.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Introverted students are finding ways to participate in class discussions online.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Different approaches to teaching are being used in the same class.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Students are getting a global perspective.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">They're finding each other on their own \u003ca href=\"../2011/01/8-social-media-sites-just-for-kids/\">kid-specific social networking sites\u003c/a>, on their blogs, on \u003ca href=\"http://rusdit.ning.com\">schools' sites\u003c/a>, and of course on \u003ca href=\"http://www.heppell.net/facebook_in_school/\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.whnt.com/news/tech/whnt-michelle-tech-in-schools-central-school-twitter-classroom-history-121610,0,2989708.story\">Twitter\u003c/a>. Though Facebook is still a red herring when it comes to school policy (Massachusetts districts \u003ca href=\"http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1291053&srvc=home&position=emailed\">have threatened to fire teachers\u003c/a> who friend students on Facebook), and educators are split over whether tweeting in class is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/10/moving-beyond-digital-distractions-using-technology-to-enhance-the-classroom-dynamic/\">disruptive or helpful\u003c/a>, the sites continue to be \u003ca href=\"http://bestonlineuniversities.com/2009/13-enlightening-case-studies-of-social-media-in-the-classroom/\">pervasive \u003c/a>in both higher-ed and K-12. Educators know they can grab students' attention where they naturally live outside the classroom -- the online social world, whether or not it's Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\"If you're teaching something that's usually bland and you insert a simple tool that allows students to connect with each other or their peers in other schools and countries whenever they want, you just see kids' faces light up,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.technewsdaily.com/teachers-embracing-social-media-in-the-classroom-0509/\">says\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.technewsdaily.com/teachers-embracing-social-media-in-the-classroom-0509/\">veteran educator \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.technewsdaily.com/teachers-embracing-social-media-in-the-classroom-0509/\">Chris Lehmann\u003c/a> of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scienceleadership.org/\">Science Leadership Academy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5 style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u003cem>Educators Unite\u003c/em>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">But social networking is not just for teens, as evidenced by the 500 million-plus Facebook users. Teachers are \u003ca href=\"http://edublogs.org/\">putting their collective smarts\u003c/a> together to find the best ways of engaging students, using social media to teach everything from \u003ca href=\"http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/the-future-of-reading-and-writing-is-collaborative/\">reading and writing\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.edutopia.org/teaching-shakespeare-digital-media\">Shakespeare\u003c/a>. Educators are also\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/12/award-winning-schools-secret-weapons/\"> using social media to connect \u003c/a>with each other, share ideas, and \u003ca href=\"http://bestonlineuniversities.com/2009/13-enlightening-case-studies-of-social-media-in-the-classroom/\">find the \u003c!--more-->best teaching tools and practices\u003c/a>. Sites like \u003ca href=\"http://www.classroom20.com\">Classroom 2.0, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.teachertube.com\">Teacher Tube\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/teachers/\">PBS Teachers,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.edmodo.com/\">Edmodo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.edutopia.org\">Edutopia\u003c/a>, and countless others are lit up with teachers sharing \u003ca href=\"http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/the-future-of-reading-and-writing-is-collaborative/\">success stories\u003c/a>, asking for advice, and providing support. Collaboration is happening offline, too, at schools where \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/education/11class.html\">educators team-teach \u003c/a>and organize \u003ca href=\"http://edupln.ning.com/\">professional learning networks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Collaboration is also finding its way into \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/three-trends-that-will-shape-the-future-of-curriculum/\">curriculum\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?s=open-source&x=0&y=0\">open-source sites\u003c/a> to which everyone is encouraged to contribute. Working together is woven into the fabric of project-based schools like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scienceleadership.org/\">Science Leadership in Academy\u003c/a>, which focuses on science, technology, math and entrepreneurship, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/napa-new-tech-high/\">Napa New Tech High High\u003c/a>. The idea is simple: by working together, students figure out how to find common ground, balance each others' skills, communicate clearly, and be accountable to the team for their part of the project. Just as they would in the work place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5 style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u003cstrong>Watch for:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(1) Department of Education working to establish a one-stop shop for teacher networks. (2) Commonly accepted guidelines for using YouTube, Facebook, and other social media in schools.\u003c/em>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"techpowered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>2. Tech-Powered.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Pens and pencils are far from obsolete, but forward-thinking educators are finding other interactive tools to grab their students' attention. School programs are built around \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magazine/19video-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss\">teaching how to create video games\u003c/a>. Teachers are using Guitar Hero, \u003ca href=\"http://www.classbrain.com/artteach/publish/teaching_geography_with_geocaching.shtml\">geo-caching\u003c/a> (high-tech scavenger hunt), \u003ca href=\"http://www.googlelittrips.org/\">Google maps for teaching literature\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/10/wii-in-lieu-of-p-e/\">Wii in lieu of P.E\u003c/a>., \u003ca href=\"http://voicethread.com/\">VoiceThread\u003c/a> to communicate, \u003ca href=\"http://www.epals.com\">ePals\u003c/a> and LiveMocha to learn global languages with native speakers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.voki.com/\">Voki\u003c/a> to create avatars of characters in stories, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/12/award-winning-schools-secret-weapons/\">Skype to communicate with peers\u003c/a> from all over the world -- even \u003ca href=\"http://www.arise-project.org/\">augmented reality, \u003c/a>connecting \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/11/04/prwebprweb4729474.DTL\">students to virtual characters\u003c/a>. And that's just \u003ca href=\"www.freetech4teachers.com\">a tiny sampling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"module image right mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/three-trends-that-define-the-future-of-teaching-and-learning/randy-pertiet/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7910\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-7910\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/02/Randy-Pertiet-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"credit\">\u003cem>\u003cem>Flickr:Randy Pertiet\u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"caption\">\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Creating media is another noteworthy tech-driven initiative in education. Media permeates our lives, and the better able students are to create and communicate with media, the better connected they'll be to global events and to the working world. To that end, programs like\u003ca href=\"http://www.digitalyouthnetwork.org/\"> Digital Youth Network\u003c/a> focus on teaching students to \u003ca href=\"http://http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/digital-youth-network-program-expands-to-underserved-areas-in-chicago/\">create podcasts, videos, and record music\u003c/a>; and Adobe Youth Voices \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/01/creating-media-connects-kids-to-global-events/\">teaches kids how to make and edit films\u003c/a> and connects them to documentary filmmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Tech-savvy teachers are threading media-making tools into the curriculum with\u003ca href=\"http://www.freetech4teachers.com/\"> free (or cheap) tools\u003c/a>, like comic strip-creation site \u003ca href=\"http://www.toondoo.com/\">ToonDo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"//www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx\">Microsoft Photo Story 3\u003c/a> for slide shows, \u003ca href=\"http://www.soundslides.com/\">SoundSlides\u003c/a> for audio slide shows, \u003ca href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx\">Microsoft Movie Maker\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://voicethread.com/\">VoiceThread\u003c/a> to string together images, videos, and documents, to name just a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Students in high school and \u003ca href=\"http://eportfolio.sfsu.edu/\">college\u003c/a> are using \u003ca href=\"http://www.eportfolio.org/\">digital portfolios\u003c/a> -- the equivalent of resumes -- to showcase the trajectory of their work on websites that link to their assignments, achievements, and course of study, using photos, graphics, spreadsheets and web pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5 style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Watch for: \u003cem>The explosive growth of high-tech companies and venture capitalists investing ever-more capital in the education market. \u003c/em>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"blended\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>3. Blended.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Simply stated, \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304772804575558383085638118.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">blended learning\u003c/a> is combining computers with traditional teaching. Knowing that today's learners are wired at all times, teachers are directing students' natural online proclivity towards schoolwork. It's referred to as different things -- reverse teaching, flip teaching, backwards classroom, or reverse instruction. But it \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/teachers-doing-the-flip-to-help-students-become-learners-531.php\">all means the same thing\u003c/a>: students conduct research, watch videos, participate in collaborative online discussions, and so on at home and at school -- both in K-12 schools and in \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/articles/2011/01/26/your-professor-your-computer-and-you\">colleges and universities.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7915\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/three-trends-that-define-the-future-of-teaching-and-learning/11_1-21_ipad_algebra_0075-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7915\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-7915\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/02/11_1.21_Ipad_Algebra_0075-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watching videos on iPads in class with teacher's guidance.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Teachers use this technique in different ways. Some \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/11/students-learn-in-class-think-and-discuss-at-home/\">assign interactive quizzes\u003c/a> and online collaborative projects at home, some use \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304772804575558383085638118.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">computer time in class\u003c/a>, some assign watching videos and lectures at home and use class time for hands-on projects, some place most of the curriculum online and work one-one-one with students in class. However they choose to do it, the best examples of blended learning programs involve teachers who use home-time online discussions and collaborative projects as fuel for content and discussion in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">This movement is growing quickly -- the Department of Education \u003ca href=\"http://http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304772804575558383085638118.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">plans to spend $30 million \u003c/a>over the next three years to bring blended learning to 400 schools around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5 style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Watch for: \u003cem>Schools using blended learning to save costs on books and supplements.\u003c/em>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"whatthesetrendsmean\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What these trends mean\u003c/h3>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003ch4>Read the rest of this series:\u003c/h4>\n\u003ch5 style=\"background-color: #00c3c6\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/three-trends-that-will-shape-the-future-of-curriculum/\">Curriculum\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003ch5 style=\"background-color: #e76e06\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/three-trends-that-define-the-future-of-teaching-and-learning/\">Teaching and Learning\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003ch5 style=\"background-color: #f32d08\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/how-learning-environments-are-changing/\">Learning Environments\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17760\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-17760\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/88015904-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Google has made it possible for us to have instant information gratification. Just start typing the first letters of your search word and the site intuits your question and offers you the smartest choice of answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seems simple enough. But as quick and facile as the process is, there are ways to be even more efficient, more search-savvy. And it's our responsibility to teach kids how to find and research information, how to judge its veracity, and when it's time to ask for a grownup's help. I spoke to Daniel Russell, Google's \"search anthropologist\" in charge of Search Quality and User Happiness (yes, really), who brought to light some important tips you may not have known.\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>CONTROL F.\u003c/strong>\u003c/span> A deceptively simple tool, the Control F function (or Command F on Macs) allows you to immediately find the word you're looking for on a page. After you've typed in your search, you can jump directly to the word or phrase in the search list. According to Russell, 90 percent of Internet users don't know this, and spend valuable time scrolling through pages of information trying to find their key word. \"They're being terribly inefficient,\" Russell says.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>KEEP IT SIMPLE. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>Use search terms the way you’d like to see them on a Web site. But think of how the author would phrase it. \"It’s not about you, it’s about the author,\" Russell says. \"What would they say and how would they say it? What are some common terms and phrases they’d write? It’s the kind of thing that people over-think and are hyper-analytical about.\" Stay on topic and keep it simple.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>DEFINE OPERATOR. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>This has to be one of the best items of Google's offerings. To learn the definition of a word, just type \"Define,\" then the word.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>ONE MORE SEARCH. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>It's one thing to do a quick search for Lady Gaga's birthday. But for more important questions that have a direct implication on your life, do one more search. Go deeper and find a second corroborating source, just like a journalist would. \"We are a credulous society,\" Russell says. \"When you have something you care about, something you're going to spend a lot of money on, or an issue with your help, do one extra search. Never single-source anything.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>FIND THE SOURCE. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>Russell knows first-hand that Web sites can sometimes publish false information. Though we all know how to find contact information for an organization, confirm the phone number, look for the author's names and trustworthy hallmarks like logos, Russell says \"the bad guys know that too. They're very good at mimicking credible sources of information.\" On the site \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.is/whois/\">Who.is\u003c/a>, searchers can find details about the source: where it's located, when it was established, and the IP address.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>CONFIRM CONTENT. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>It's common to find the same phrases and sentences on different sites all over the Web because people duplicate content all the time. To determine the original source of the content, you can look at the date it was written, but that's also not entirely accurate. When authors edit an article, that changes the posting date. So even if it was originally written in 2005, the date will say 2011 if it was edited last week. Again, here's when you put on your journalist hat. Trustworthy websites typically have an \"errata column\" or something like it where mistakes or corrections are posted. Sites where you see strikethroughs (\u003cdel>it looks this\u003c/del>) publicly show where previously published information has been corrected or stricken. You'll also see \"Updates\" at the top of articles, where clarifications are published, which shows the Web site's intention of providing the most accurate information. \"Those idioms were not practicable or doable in pre-technology days,\" Russell says. \"You have to understand how the practice of writing and publishing is changing.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>LINK OPERATOR. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>The way Google ranks sites can be confusing. Sometimes even when a site has negative comments or reviews, it still rises to the top of the search list simply because it's been mentioned the most. When you want to know what \u003cem>other\u003c/em> sites are saying about the site you're searching, type in \"Link: www.yourwebsitename.com\" and you'll see all the posts that mention that site. Whether it's following up on a debatable article or the reputation of an online shop or person, it's another incredibly useful research tool that didn't exist in \"pre-Web times,\" as Russell puts it.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>DON'T USE THE + SIGN. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>It might have negative side effects, Russell says. Adding the + sign will force the search engine to look for only that phrase and may tweak the search in a way you didn't intend. That said, it's a useful tool for looking up foreign words or very low-frequency words.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>PAY ATTENTION TO \"GOOGLE INSTANT.\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>In most cases, Google's instant search function, which is fairly new, will accurately predict what you're searching for and offer suggestions. \"Pay attention to it,\" Russell says. \"You don't need to keep typing!\" And sometimes it'll help you come up with the right words for your search phrase. It's all part of tapping into the wisdom of the crowd, he says. \"It's good when you're stuck in a hard research problem. Like 'Which kind of hybrid vehicle should I buy?' might result in 'hybrid minivans' or other ideas you might not have known about.'\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>SWITCH ON SAFETY MODE. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>If you've got kids in the house, Russell suggests enabling safe search. In your \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en\">Search Settings\u003c/a>, scroll down to SafeSearch Filtering (or use Control F to find it quickly!) and choose what level filter you want to use. You can tailor it to every computer in the house. Google offers all kinds of safe search tips and functions on \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/familysafety/\">Google's Family Safety Center\u003c/a>. And what to tell kids if they accidentally stumble upon an inappropriate site? \"I always tell my kids the Internet is a big, wide place, and if you find something inappropriate, hit the \"back\" button,\" he says. A teacher he knows tells her class to just instantly close the laptop when they find something objectionable. \"It's an instant signal to the teacher in a K-8 class that something is not right, and it gives the teacher the opportunity to talk about how the student got there, and how to avoid that in the future.\" The tactic might not work as well in the high school setting, though, Russell jokes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>FUNCTIONS GALORE. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>You can use Google to do calculations (just type in \"Square root of 99\" or \"Convert 12 inches to mm\"). You can search patents, images, videos, language translations. And even if you can't remember a Google function, you can easily search it. \"I use Google to Google Google,\" Russell says. \"You don't have to remember URLs.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>LEFT-HAND SIDE TOOLS. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>Most people don't notice these exist, but when you search a topic, a list of useful, interesting tools come up. For example, when you type in \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=bvec&cp=6&gs_id=m&xhr=t&q=War+of+1812&qe=V2FyIG9m&qesig=owk6VkglLlTrp0yv7l52XA&pkc=AFgZ2tmRRENnxjAvBqEvHqFVsqhdYkci_eLlt_uBExXgH2jVf389SdEl-XQWmWC8-Xb-nZ1cB0LFu8IQoAMgYl4feKkCW1wGpQ&pf=p&sclient=psy&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=War+of&aq=0&aqi=g5&aql=f&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.&fp=39972cc0da070512&biw=1193&bih=584\">War of 1812\u003c/a>, on the left hand side, you'll see \"Images,\" \"Videos,\" etc., but below that you'll see things like \"Timeline,\" which maps out a time sequence of events around the War of 1812 and links to each of those events. There's also a dictionary, related searches, and a slew of other helpful links.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>To those who wonder if \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/\">Google is making us stupid,\u003c/a> Russell has a pithy response: \"Plato said that about books.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I better go search that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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I spoke to Daniel Russell, Google's \"search anthropologist\" in charge of Search Quality and User Happiness (yes, really), who brought to light some important tips you may not have known.\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>CONTROL F.\u003c/strong>\u003c/span> A deceptively simple tool, the Control F function (or Command F on Macs) allows you to immediately find the word you're looking for on a page. After you've typed in your search, you can jump directly to the word or phrase in the search list. According to Russell, 90 percent of Internet users don't know this, and spend valuable time scrolling through pages of information trying to find their key word. \"They're being terribly inefficient,\" Russell says.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>KEEP IT SIMPLE. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>Use search terms the way you’d like to see them on a Web site. But think of how the author would phrase it. \"It’s not about you, it’s about the author,\" Russell says. \"What would they say and how would they say it? What are some common terms and phrases they’d write? It’s the kind of thing that people over-think and are hyper-analytical about.\" Stay on topic and keep it simple.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>DEFINE OPERATOR. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>This has to be one of the best items of Google's offerings. To learn the definition of a word, just type \"Define,\" then the word.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>ONE MORE SEARCH. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>It's one thing to do a quick search for Lady Gaga's birthday. But for more important questions that have a direct implication on your life, do one more search. Go deeper and find a second corroborating source, just like a journalist would. \"We are a credulous society,\" Russell says. \"When you have something you care about, something you're going to spend a lot of money on, or an issue with your help, do one extra search. Never single-source anything.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>FIND THE SOURCE. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>Russell knows first-hand that Web sites can sometimes publish false information. Though we all know how to find contact information for an organization, confirm the phone number, look for the author's names and trustworthy hallmarks like logos, Russell says \"the bad guys know that too. They're very good at mimicking credible sources of information.\" On the site \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.is/whois/\">Who.is\u003c/a>, searchers can find details about the source: where it's located, when it was established, and the IP address.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>CONFIRM CONTENT. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>It's common to find the same phrases and sentences on different sites all over the Web because people duplicate content all the time. To determine the original source of the content, you can look at the date it was written, but that's also not entirely accurate. When authors edit an article, that changes the posting date. So even if it was originally written in 2005, the date will say 2011 if it was edited last week. Again, here's when you put on your journalist hat. Trustworthy websites typically have an \"errata column\" or something like it where mistakes or corrections are posted. Sites where you see strikethroughs (\u003cdel>it looks this\u003c/del>) publicly show where previously published information has been corrected or stricken. You'll also see \"Updates\" at the top of articles, where clarifications are published, which shows the Web site's intention of providing the most accurate information. \"Those idioms were not practicable or doable in pre-technology days,\" Russell says. \"You have to understand how the practice of writing and publishing is changing.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>LINK OPERATOR. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>The way Google ranks sites can be confusing. Sometimes even when a site has negative comments or reviews, it still rises to the top of the search list simply because it's been mentioned the most. When you want to know what \u003cem>other\u003c/em> sites are saying about the site you're searching, type in \"Link: www.yourwebsitename.com\" and you'll see all the posts that mention that site. Whether it's following up on a debatable article or the reputation of an online shop or person, it's another incredibly useful research tool that didn't exist in \"pre-Web times,\" as Russell puts it.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>DON'T USE THE + SIGN. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>It might have negative side effects, Russell says. Adding the + sign will force the search engine to look for only that phrase and may tweak the search in a way you didn't intend. That said, it's a useful tool for looking up foreign words or very low-frequency words.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>PAY ATTENTION TO \"GOOGLE INSTANT.\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>In most cases, Google's instant search function, which is fairly new, will accurately predict what you're searching for and offer suggestions. \"Pay attention to it,\" Russell says. \"You don't need to keep typing!\" And sometimes it'll help you come up with the right words for your search phrase. It's all part of tapping into the wisdom of the crowd, he says. \"It's good when you're stuck in a hard research problem. Like 'Which kind of hybrid vehicle should I buy?' might result in 'hybrid minivans' or other ideas you might not have known about.'\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>SWITCH ON SAFETY MODE. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>If you've got kids in the house, Russell suggests enabling safe search. In your \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en\">Search Settings\u003c/a>, scroll down to SafeSearch Filtering (or use Control F to find it quickly!) and choose what level filter you want to use. You can tailor it to every computer in the house. Google offers all kinds of safe search tips and functions on \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/familysafety/\">Google's Family Safety Center\u003c/a>. And what to tell kids if they accidentally stumble upon an inappropriate site? \"I always tell my kids the Internet is a big, wide place, and if you find something inappropriate, hit the \"back\" button,\" he says. A teacher he knows tells her class to just instantly close the laptop when they find something objectionable. \"It's an instant signal to the teacher in a K-8 class that something is not right, and it gives the teacher the opportunity to talk about how the student got there, and how to avoid that in the future.\" The tactic might not work as well in the high school setting, though, Russell jokes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000080\">\u003cstrong>FUNCTIONS GALORE. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>You can use Google to do calculations (just type in \"Square root of 99\" or \"Convert 12 inches to mm\"). You can search patents, images, videos, language translations. 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The bill establishes the online California Digital Open Source Library, which will house the 50 most commonly used books for required lower-division courses. Similar to \u003ca href=\"http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/\">Flat World Knowledge\u003c/a>, students and teachers will be able to access and adapt the texts online for free, or pay $20 for either printed form or interactive app form for tablets or mobile devices (think \u003ca href=\"http://www.kno.com\">Kno\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.inkling.com\">Inkling\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill calls for a request for proposal (RFP) to be submitted from all content providers, electronic platform providers, as well as publishers, that will fall under a Creative Commons license, which means it's open for reuse and repurposing (not copyrighted like most print books). 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What's more, the online versions are \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/State-of-Washington-to-Offer/125887/\">only available for one academic quarter\u003c/a>. \"I find the publishers' online offerings nothing more than the old ancillaries they've always offered bundled up in a proprietary system,\" said David Lippman, a math teacher at Pierce College to the \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/State-of-Washington-to-Offer/125887/\">Chronicle of Higher Education.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For forward-thinking college professors, being able to customize class curriculum from different sources can be liberating. \"Using resources from all different kinds of sources and making them relevant to students can be really powerful,\" said Carmel Crane, instructional technology manager at St. Mary's College. \"Teachers naturally pull from different resources to piecemeal a curriculum together and take it to the next level. Technology makes things more accessible and a more rapid transformation is taking place because of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to creating content for open use, Crane said the issue gets sticky. \"Some faculty are concerned with rights of research they've worked so hard to accumulate and establish,\" she said. \"Publishing has been a source of income for faculty, but the industry has been turned on its head.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crane said some faculty are hesitant to make their content available freely not just because of cost but because they're concerned about what happens to their research after it's been released. \"If it can be changed in any way, they're worried about what happens to their reputation as a researcher,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una Daly, the communication college outreach manager at Open Courseware Consortium says teachers want to collaborate, but they haven't been supported on the college level. \"There's a lot more that needs to be done to support instructors,\" she said. Though some do go above and beyond their given responsibilities to create content, \"that's tough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In order to make it sustainable, teachers need to be respected and rewarded for that work,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first prototype of the interactive open digital textbook that models what Steinberg is hoping to recreate in California is \u003ca href=\"http://cnx.org/content/m16026/latest/?collection=col10522/latest\">\u003cem>Collaborative Statistics\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, written by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean, faculty members at De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif. The book is found on \u003ca id=\"OREDU0000643\" title=\"Rice University \" href=\"http://www.latimes.com/topic/education/colleges-universities/rice-university--OREDU0000643.topic\">Rice University's\u003c/a> Connexions repository, which contains 1,100 open textbooks. 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Though the company started by digitally rendering existing print textbooks only for the iPad -- currently, there are about 100 book titles -- it's poised to become a major player in the publishing industry. But rather than creating content, the tech company will provide the platform that can transcend any device, whether that's an iPad, a Kindle -- or even a laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BEYOND EDUCATIONAL BOOKS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, all of Inkling's titles are in education, but it's starting to dabble beyond that market.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"It's not even close to maximizing the potential of the tablet.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Inkling engineering is being used to create digital books out of blogs. 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Both titles have received \u003ca href=\"http://openairpub.com/press\">rave reviews\u003c/a> for their luscious images, explanatory videos, and ease of use. \"The multimedia features elevate it from a how-to guide to something rivaling a small group class,\" \u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2011/08/25/open-air-publishing/\">writes Mashable\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inkling also produced the epic \u003ca href=\"https://www.inkling.com/store/professional-chef-cia-9th/\">\u003cem>The Professional Chef\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by the Culinary Institute of America. The book in its entirety costs $50, but you can also purchase individual chapters for $3 a piece. The new model makes book buying much like buying music -- choose only the pieces you like best. MacInnis fluidly demonstrates how to float from one chapter to the next, launch videos, close in on images, tap on sidebars and recipe instructions. It's like watching a magician performing sleight-of-hand tricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the books Inkling has created thus far are what MacInnis calls a \"means to an end.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s all a way for us to illustrate for the world what’s possible. Simple things like rendering images into 3D, we can scale pretty well. But when you get to thinking about the hierarchy of knowledge you have to traverse in order to be an expert in a specific topic, you start to build the book very differently than you would have done in print,\" he said. \"We can take a textbook to an Inkling title in six weeks, but we can't create a pure Inkling experience in six weeks, because there’s no shortcut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17279\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/Screen-shot-2011-12-02-at-12.48.03-PM-300x290.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\">\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Inkling\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Inkling is in the midst of producing multiple projects that will take years to create because they're building native digital content. \"You'll see stuff that will be much more beautiful and much more interesting in structure,\" he said, though he would not elaborate further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TABLET OR E-READER?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything we’ve done is platform agnostic,\" MacInnis said. 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