Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 10/28/2011

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  • The Mobile Native

    I’ve been messaging with Scott Newcomb about what they are doing at his school in Ohio and got this message: “Every student 3-5 has their own smart phone (MLD). We are starting BYOD with the upper grades this year.” Here is their mobile learning blog.

    tags: education mobilelearning mlearning wireless_connectivity

  • At the risk of offending some Twitterites « To Learn and Connect

    I think that Trina Crawford (tcrawford2011) has some great points about auto dm’s on Twitter. I don’t care for them either, although I admit, I experimented with them. I also have a service (I since turned off) that used to tweet right before I hit a 1K mark each time — it bothered me and I think it would bother others. The thing is that when you tweet on twitter it should mostly be about helping others and inspiring them. Be helpful and the followers will come. The sooner we all learn the world doesn’t revolve around us and that we should give back and be helpful, the better off we’ll all be. Don’t worry about followers – rather, be worth following and the followers will come. Care about your followers and they will care about you. Be selfish and be lonely. Be passionately helpful and the sky is the limit.

    tags: education twitter

  • St. Marys City Schools Mobile Learning Technology

    Scott Newcomb (@snewco on twitter) works with the St. Mary’s city schools (Ohio). I was blown away by his school’s mobile learning technology page. Tons of resources here for mobile learning.

    tags: Education mobile

  • Should you care how high your Klout score is? — Tech News and Analysis

    So, we thought we understood how Klout worked, now we don’t. They totally changed their algorithm. Lots of really cool people dropped. I dropped from 71 to 56! What? It is find to calculate such a score but it should make sense to understand what works and what it all means.

    tags: education klout

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Vicki Davis

Vicki Davis has been an educator and IT director in Georgia since 2002. Today, she also works as an instructional technology coach, staying side-by-side with active teachers and students so her work stays grounded in real classrooms.

She's a mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world.

She has blogged at the Cool Cat Teacher Blog since 2005 and hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk (radio, public access TV, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms), interviewing remarkable educators around the world. Vicki focuses on what unites us — a quest for truly remarkable, life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers, grounded in truth and shared with love.

If you talk to Vicki for long, she'll encourage you to "Relate to Educate," to "innovate like a turtle," or to be "a remarkable teacher." She loves homemade sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and runs half marathons with her sisters. You can usually find her laughing with her students or digging into a book.

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