 | Collaboration. Assessment. Easy and Mobile. Wondering how to use the iPads in your classroom? With the MimioMobile™ application, your school can get the most from classroom iPads by using them for truly collaborative learning and ongoing formative assessment. Find out how easy it is with a free trial of the MimioMobile application. | | What should high-school teachers expect from the MOOC trend? Blogging from the International Society for Technology in Education 2013 conference in San Antonio, reporter Ben Herold shares the views of Lehigh University education professor Scott Garrigan, who has embraced massive open online courses, such as the Khan Academy. Garrigan offers some advice for high-school teachers, suggesting they "should get ready to do the same," Herold writes. Garrigan also suggests teachers prepare for "interest-driven learning," new data that will better help teachers meet students' needs and a greater emphasis on data-driven work. Education Week/Digital Education blog (6/24)
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 | Common core among top 3 priorities, IT professionals say A panel of educators at the International Society for Technology in Education conference, taking place in San Antonio this week, discussed the findings of a recent report in which a majority of school information technology professionals said the Common Core State Standards are among the top three priorities. Panelists noted that making sure educators are prepared to teach the standards should go hand-in-hand with rolling out new technology. "Getting our curriculum people to model [common-core instructional techniques] is a huge first step," said Doug Renfro, an instructional designer for Metro Nashville Public Schools. Education Week/Digital Education blog (6/24) Other News | Ind. seeks damages following online-testing glitches Indiana State Superintendent Glenda Ritz says the state deserves to be compensated for difficulties it experienced in administering online exams this year. As a result, the state now is seeking $613,600 in damages from test administrator CTB/McGraw-Hill. The state also may seek additional damages from the company, which has stated its servers were unable to handle the traffic caused by the testing, which resulted in the glitches. Education Week/Marketplace K-12 blog (6/24) | Calif. father finds Edmodo is open to security breaches A father in California, who also works as an engineer at Cisco Systems, recently studied the data security of Edmodo, an online-learning network, and found some deficiencies. After creating a fake profile with fake students, Tony Porterfield found that the website does not encrypt user sessions -- a protocol called Secure Sockets Layer. Without such protection, Porterfield was able to spy on the simulated online activities of a student from his home Wi-Fi connection. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (6/22) | 6M Facebook users had data exposed by a bug, social network admits The e-mail addresses and phone numbers of 6 million Facebook users were exposed to other members because of a database error, the company says. Facebook's "Download Your Information" tool was responsible for the breach, according to Facebook, which added, "[N]o other types of personal or financial information were included and only people on Facebook -- not developers or advertisers -- have access to the DYI tool." Government agencies, which use Facebook to increase outreach to the public, said they had not been told about the breach by Facebook, Aliya Sternstein writes. Reuters (6/21), All Things D (6/21), NextGov (6/24) |  | The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing." -- Thomas Aquinas, Italian Dominican priest and philosopher | | Please contact one of our specialists for advertising opportunities, editorial inquiries, job placements, or any other questions. | | Publisher, Education Group: Joe Riddle P: 202.407.7857 ext. 228 | | | | |
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