Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. –William Butler Yeats
Introduction
Deconstruct the fun in any good game, and it becomes clear that what makes it enjoyable is the built-in learning process.

Shannon Mersand: "This is a resource I am building to help myself, and possibly others, as they work toward building and facilitating online courses. It was inspired by my interactions with fellow students, Deb Kabler and Dr. Kay Lehmann in Collaborative Communities in eLearning. It is very much a work in progress."

Via Dennis T OConnor

Though more than two years into my school’s implementation of project based learning, yesterday, I found myself excited all over again. I was helping a second grade teacher enhance her landforms PBL by using Padlet as part of the KWL process and suddenly realized that this approach to student-centered learning has truly become a part of who we are as a school.

My adventures in combining PBLs and iPads began with a gift of two carts. I had just started taking the PBLU online courses when the head of our independent pre-k through eighth grade school challenged each grade-level team to teach one unit using the PBL approach while finding authentic ways to draw in iPads. As the lower school technology integration person, I immediately went on a quest to find a guinea pig willing to plan and co-teach a PBL unit incorporating iPads. This is the story of that first experience. . .

Via John Evans, Sam Gliksman

Via Educatorstechnology

EdTech is a tricky word when the Tech part bullies the Ed one. As technology is just a tool, education has to be based on pedagogy..

Read and download this self-assessment rubric and accompanying questions to help you assess your own or your students' social and emotional development this year.

Via Dennis T OConnor