EduDemic: April 11, 2012

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• If You Had 100,000 Twitter Followers, Would You Tweet Differently?
• A New Way To Let Students Securely Access YouTube EDU
• No iPad? Check Out The New Edudemic Store!
• 5 Ways To Use StumbleUpon In Education
• The April Issue of the Edudemic Magazine Is Ready To Rock
• Mobiles4Learning 2012: An All-Star #EdTech Integration Summit
• Why We Don’t Need More Students To Take Computer Programming Classes

If You Had 100,000 Twitter Followers, Would You Tweet Differently? Posted: 10 Apr 2012 01:07 PM PDT This one's sort of an open question that's been kicking around the Twittersphere. A few popular education tweeters (@willrich45, @stumpteacher, @mcleod) had a brief discussion about this very question today but I wanted to invite others to participate.

A New Way To Let Students Securely Access YouTube EDU Posted: 10 Apr 2012 11:55 AM PDT YouTube is easily one of the most powerful Web 2.0 tools for the classroom. However, it had a big stumbling block: inappropriate or unrelated content. YouTube EDU solved a big part of this by creating a curated area for educational content.

No iPad? Check Out The New Edudemic Store! Posted: 10 Apr 2012 10:00 AM PDT We took your requests to heart and spent the last month building the Edudemic Store. It's a digital marketplace for all things Edudemic. From books to curricula (coming soon) to the Edudemic Magazine, it's all available for instant download.

5 Ways To Use StumbleUpon In Education Posted: 10 Apr 2012 09:00 AM PDT Do you need another time-sucking website that will entertain, educate, and enhance your day-to-day life? Of course you do! Lucky for you, there's StumbleUpon and it's more than just another LOLCat-powered site. It's actually useful for education!

The April Issue of the Edudemic Magazine Is Ready To Rock Posted: 10 Apr 2012 08:29 AM PDT The April issue of Edudemic Magazine for iPad is here, combining the Edudemic magic with iPad magic to create an entirely new Edudemic experience.

Mobiles4Learning 2012: An All-Star #EdTech Integration Summit Posted: 10 Apr 2012 08:00 AM PDT There's an education summit happening later this month that packs an all-star lineup of people sharing best practices, learning about new tools, and figuring out the future of education technology integration.

Why We Don’t Need More Students To Take Computer Programming Classes Posted: 10 Apr 2012 06:00 AM PDT Google's Eric Schmidt recently wrote a piece endorsing the push to teach computer science to all students in Britain. But that's not quite right.

EduDemic: April 11, 2012