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I've been to something like one hundred conferences and corporate events in the past several years as I travel the world delivering keynotes and running seminars. I've seen a few great speeches. Sadly, most speeches I see are not very...
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This is where you can link to see what is coming in the future when it comes to tech. Delete the scoop?
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In our creative writing time, I challenged them to use their learning to create sentences that were grammatically correct, yet did not make sense! Learners were provided sentences starters and asked to finish them; the final ...
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I thought this sounded like a fun creative project. You might even have them create a world or new language using this idea. Using what is known have learners dream up and create something unknown. You could use this idea with about any content area. What a creative way to kid people to think "out of the box". Delete the scoop?
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Today the world has lost one of its great minds. Paolo Soleri, architect, builder, artist, writer, theorist, husband, father, born on Summer Solstice, June 21, 1919, has died at age 93. Paolo Soleri spent a lifetime investigating how architecture, specifically the architecture of the city, could support the countless possibilities of human aspiration. The urban project he founded, Arcosanti, 65 miles north of Phoenix, was described by NEWSWEEK magazine as “…the most important urban experiment undertaken in our lifetimes.”
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Soleri was an amazing contrast in design from the usual American living styles. Here is a tribute to that amazing person. Delete the scoop?
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Excellent Ways to Use Videos in your Classroom ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning on Pedagogy, Education, Technology curated by Francesca Beltrami (Excellent Ways to Use Videos in your Classroom ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning...
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Here is a great graphic about the power of video in the classroom. Delete the scoop?
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This is just a review of some very good points to remember. Delete the scoop?
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How to go from Cood to Great talk given by Angela Maiers to a group of 5th graders. This not only introduces these learners consider how they present themselves in person but also online and that is critical today for "Great" people to have influence. This is also an example of one of many must needed lessons that don't fit into the focus on teaching exit exams. This lesson and many other critical lessons are not found in core text books or learning outcomes. Hopefully more teachers can find a way to work this type of lesson in without hurting the test scores. Delete the scoop?
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You can donate at 1-800-4JimmyV or www.jimmyv.org. Jimmy Valvano's 1993 ESPY Speech. "Don't give up . . . Don't ever give up."® The V Foundation for Cancer R...
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A coaches pep talk given by Jimmy Valvano as he fights cancer. Delete the scoop?
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Soo Meta allows you to combine videos from YouTube, pictures from the web or from your desktop, text, and voice recordings to create a presentation. Yesterday, I learned that Soo Meta now allows you to insert a quiz into your projects. This means that people viewing your Soo Meta projects can watch a short video clip then answer questions about it before moving onto the next part of the presentation.
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This looks like a strong tool for creating and sharing presentations to groups. Enjoy experimenting! Delete the scoop?
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This free tool will help with editing on line. See how it works by clicking on the title. Delete the scoop?
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A 10th Grader Explains How Social Media Can Replace Textbooks (RT @willrich45: "As a student, I want to feel like I’m in the 21st century, both in and out of the classroom." http://t.co/NkI3JV2lES...
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Great read! Right on target too! Written by a 10th grader!
Excerpt: Better than the outdated, limiting, and somewhat irrelevant resources that are textbooks. Better than pulling out the bolded words in textbooks and quizzing students on them the next day. Better than focusing solely on events that took place hundreds or thousands of years ago instead of learning about events taking place right now. Social media can transform a class from a traditional, cookie cutter, textbook-using class into an innovative, fascinating, and extremely relevant course. For example, a class that focuses on current events. Everyone deserves to understand what’s going on in the world. In school, why aren’t current events as important as events that took place hundreds of years ago? Moving beyond the textbook and utilizing resources like social media doesn’t mean we’re disregarding events of the past. It can mean the opposite. While learning about the Arab Spring, a class could analyze the history of tyrannical regimes of the Middle East in order to understand the events that took place in early 2011. Delete the scoop?
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Rather than making young people wade through incomprehensible strings of words and numbers, writing code in Hopscotch consists of dragging and dropping different cute characters and running scripts on them. Via Beth Dichter, Cath Parker
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Here's something we need most even more than algebra. Girls and Boys that can code are in high demand for awhile. 
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April 17, 9:20 PM
This free app for the iPad will help students learn how to code! It is geared to students between the ages of 8 and 12. Using drag and drop students should be able to create games and animations. A ongoing debate in education is around the issue of teaching programming to students. This app may provide opportunities for students to begin to explore the concept of programming easily. 
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April 17, 10:03 PM
Coding and girls! Yes, they can go together folks!
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Resonate is a platform for networking, information, knowledge sharing and education. It brings together distinguished, world class artists, with an opportunity of participating in a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture. It is a project broad enough to encompass areas ranging from software engineering to visual arts theory, but also to create a bridge between culturally separated segments of the artistic and intellectual scene through a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach.
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This is a very interesting collection of concerned creative people in various areas that come together in creative ways to shape culture. There are links to all types of books, films, events, conferences as well as reviews and opinions from this connection. Spend some time clicking and see where all this takes you. Delete the scoop?
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"As so often happens with ed tech, there's a gulf between the hype and the reality. While these MOOCs can tout huge enrollment numbers--some 160,000 for the Stanford Artificial Intelligence course that jump-started this recent trend--they don't have high completion rates. Just 21 percent of enrollees actually completed that AI class, and only 14 percent passed." Via EDTC@UTB
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This goes into some of the issues about MOOC. 
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May 7, 12:34 PM
As I must continually remind myself, we can't equate MOOCs with traditional online courses. They have totally different target audiences and purposes. Delete the scoop?
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Learning styles: ways to relax and read #bced #SEL #learning
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This is not so high tech but I really believe we are long over due to making school feel more home like and comfortable. Far too many spend the bulk of our lives in school or on a job for our environmnet to be left to the same old stale, boring solutions. This offers some nice start thinking about it points regardless of the age group you work with. Delete the scoop?
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Despite its popularity, the personality test has been subject to sustained criticism by professional psychologists for over three decades. (Have we all been duped by the Myers-Briggs test?
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How many have completed all or part of this test over the years. This article presents very good points to support the idea that while it's kind of fun to see "who you are and what your like" that might just be all there really is to these tests.
Excerpt: FORTUNE -- "When Frank Parsons opened the world's first career guidance center in Boston in 1908, he began by asking prospective clients 116 penetrating questions about their ambitions, strengths, and weaknesses (and how often they bathed). But then he did something more unusual: He measured their skulls.
Parsons was a committed believer in phrenology. If you had a large forehead, he might recommend you become a lawyer or engineer. But if your skull was more developed behind the ears, you were of the "animal type" and best suited to manual work.
Career advice has, thankfully, come a long way since then. But now, instead of measuring the outside of people's heads, it has become common to measure the inside using psychometric tests. Personality testing has grown into a major industry and is standard procedure in leadership and management courses, as part of job-interview processes, and, increasingly, in career counselling. But should we really trust such tests to deliver scientific, objective truth?" Delete the scoop?
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Have you signed up for Mozilla's 'teach the web" free online course? You'll be a few weeks behind but that is OK.! Delete the scoop?
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth - invest in your soul
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Here is an opinion about how Art does make kids smarter. What do you think? Does art make kids smarter. Do we need to be more careful about what kind of art we make because so much is learned from it? Kids today spend more time than ever in and learn far more from their man made environmnet and the visual and audio visual art messages than they spend one on one communicating and interacting with real people or natural surrounding outdoors. Delete the scoop?
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VocabularySpellingCity's mobile apps have word games, vocabulary games, and spelling games from the popular SpellingCity website. Use our apps in the classroom or at home.
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Well it isn't art but if you have some new kids that speak Spanish as often have this might come in handy! Delete the scoop?
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Angela Maiers is an education and technology consultant from Des Moines, Iowa who shares with us how two words can change a life. In the spirit of ideas wort...
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These two words are why I teach and why I collect and share all this on Scoopit. I add a few more critical words. We Matter, The Planet and Our All of Our Environments in Life Matter, and last but not least You and WE Can Make a Difference in the World. Delete the scoop?
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Awards for Exemplary Online Materials are presented to authors of peer-reviewed learning resources. The awards honor the authors and developers of these resources for their contributions to the academic community by conferring the MERLOT Classics Awards. Each Editorial Board selects an outstanding peer-reviewed learning material in its discipline to receive the Classics award according to program criteria. The Editors’ Council, composed of the editors of the Editorial Boards, further reviews the Classics awardees and selects among them the resource or resources they consider to be exemplary models for all disciplines. These resources receive the highest award of honor, the MERLOT Editors’ Choice award. The Editors’ Choice Award was curtailed in 2007 in order to provide more awards for the Application of MERLOT..
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I thought this sight was an interesting link to award winning learning materials so I decided to scoopit for future reference and thought maybe some of you might want to as well. This is a group that presents these awards so I'm sure they look at many learning materials. Delete the scoop?
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This is better than Pinterest for teachers and some other groups because it invloves creating group boards. Delete the scoop?
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Here is a free, portfolio collection style, web page making source that many will find helpful. Delete the scoop?
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The Tynker Learning Platform, which uses its own visual programming language, is focused on bringing better STEM education tools into classrooms Via Beth Dichter, Cath Parker
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This is another coding platform that is free for now. This is designed for children to learn to code.
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April 18, 7:38 PM
Tynker is another new coding program designed for children that is free. Their philosophy is "that elementary school-aged children should understand the basics of how computers work and how they’re programmed." They have designed their own programming language which is "focused on bringing better STEM education tools into classrooms and is hence geared toward teachers." All the tools are free to use and include lesson plans and interactive tutorials as well as management tools. Projects are geared to student interests, such as buiding games, robots and creating comics. 
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April 21, 2:34 AM
The modular tools used for programming here look very similar to those developed by MIT for their programme, "Scatch". It am looking for award to trying Tynker out with my Year 2 students as they really enjoyed working with Scratch to create their own games. Delete the scoop?
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What do we really need to teach future citzens, parents, workers and thinkers?The country plans to double down on making sure everyone can do algebra, knows American history and can read and spend a fortune in time and money to do it. While reading and math are among basic skills we need they are far from the standards we need as a finish. That may not be the focus we need to have happen to really move into the future.
This article gives insight as to the real critical issues we need to focus our attention towards. Searching for answers to relevant questions needs to direct our studies. We do need ensure and install basic skills but that is a beginning and not where we should but our focus. People learn best when learning is meaningful and relevant. You can't figure the answer to real problems unless you "LOOK" at the real problems and they are not located in the next page of our 4th, 9th, 10th or 11th grade study books or on the test sheets. That is for sure.
Excerpt: The institutions traditionally looked to for leadership – political leaders, business leaders, educational experts, the “media,” and other fields are the problem. They should no longer be considered “experts” and “leaders.” They are our current ancien regime wholly lacking the capacity to introduce the radical shift in human consciousness and social self awareness needed to meet the path breaking changes of the past 15 years.Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/frank-kaufmann-way-forward/2013/may/9/technology-moves-faster-ethics/#ixzz2Su9uBecI Follow us: @wtcommunities on Twitter Delete the scoop?
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In 2011, the respective roles of higher education institutions and students worldwide were brought into question by the rise of the massive open online course (MOOC). MOOCs are defined by signature characteristics that include: lectures formatted as short videos combined with formative quizzes; automated assessment and/or peer and self–assessment and an online forum for peer support and discussion. Although not specifically designed to optimise learning, claims have been made that MOOCs are based on sound pedagogical foundations that are at the very least comparable with courses offered by universities in face–to–face mode. To validate this, we examined the literature for empirical evidence substantiating such claims. Although empirical evidence directly related to MOOCs was difficult to find, the evidence suggests that there is no reason to believe that MOOCs are any less effective a learning experience than their face–to–face counterparts. Indeed, in some aspects, they may actually improve learning outcomes. Via Peter B. Sloep
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This is an interesting assessment and Peter B.Sloep offers further great assessment. It''s a Good read! 
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May 7, 4:18 PM
I agree with Peter's comments and question the generalisation of the article's concluding statement that "MOOCs have a sound pedagogical basis for their formats". What principles of Learning Design inform this "sound pedagogical basis? I would be keen to read and understand more research and discussion on this point.
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May 10, 9:26 AM
Finally, a literature review.
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