Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 03/15/2011

• Generations and their Gadgets « The Mobile Learner

  tags: generations gadgets

• 80% of Children Under Age 5 Use the Internet [STATS]

  tags: children internet use

  • Nearly 80% of children between the ages of 0 and 5 use the Internet on at least a weekly basis in the United States,
  • The analysis found that during the week, most children spend at least three hours a day watching television, and that television use among preschoolers is the highest it has been in the past eight years. Of the time that children spend on all types of media, television accounts for a whopping 47%.
  • Heavy television viewing may even be partially responsible for the rising number of children who use the Internet. Parents in one study indicated that more than 60% of children under age three watch video online. That percentage decreases as children get older (the report suggests this is because school-age children have less time at home), but even 8- to 18-year-old children reported in another study that they consume about 20% of their video content online, on cellphones, or on other portable devices like iPods.
  • A 2010 Nielsen study suggests that 36% of children between the ages of 2 and 11 use both mediums simultaneously. Altogether, children between the ages of 8 and 10 spend about 5.5 hours each day using media — eight hours if you count the additional media consumed while multitasking.
  • About 90% of 5- to 9-year-olds who participated in a 2008 Sesame Workshop study reported spending at least an hour every day reading old-fashioned, physical texts.

• 15 Best Websites To Find And Download eBooks

  tags: best websites ebooks download

• 8 Powerful & Inexpensive Desktop Design Apps

  tags: design inexpensive powerful apps tools

• Scitable | Learn Science at Nature

  tags: science education biology scitable collaboration web2.0 reference

• Mobile Phones, Educational Apps, and the Digital Divide

  tags: apps mobile mlearning educational

  • Currently, about 85 percent of Americans 18 and older and 75 percent of those 12 to 17 own cellphones. But of those, only 27 percent own smart-phones.
  • A recent Pew Hispanic Center study found, for example, found that 6 percent of Latinos respondents said that they access the Internet via a cell phone but have no Internet access at home. This rate is the same for blacks, but notably higher than the rate for whites (1 percent).

• How to cut video fast & easily using Freemake Video Converter

• WebList – allows you to create a list and share with your friends using a single URL.

  tags: web2.0 weblist aggregator tools list websites Bookmark lists

• The Best Online Tools For Real-Time Collaboration

  tags: collaboration tools web2.0 education onlinetools

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Wiggio

Wiggio – a free, online toolkit that allows you to communicate and work in groups.—
Steve Yuen (@scyuen) March 14, 2011

 

 

 

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Finding Free eBooks

15 Best Websites To Find And Download eBooks. http://t.co/Zi70DQC—
Steve Yuen (@scyuen) March 14, 2011

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dushare

dushare – offers real-time P2P file transfers without uploading to a file server. http://www.dushare.com—
Steve Yuen (@scyuen) March 14, 2011

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