Using a flex model, every community can afford to have a great high school. Every community should have a flex option that provides a fully supported individualized pathways to graduation. Via Stephanie Sandifer Heiko Idensen reports in his curated newsradar "Online Curating & Social Learning Tools and Applications": "Learnist is a new pinboard where users can organize their learning materials. It resembles Pinterest except that Learnist is just for sharing learning resources.
The website is still in beta but looks really very promising for both teachers and students.
Here is a set of the main features that Learnist offers to its users : It is free Itis easy to use It has a user friendly interface It lets users create pinboards around a certain topic Users can create different boards and invite others to collaborate on them It lets you pin images,videos, and text to your boards with a single click from Learnist bookmarklet Users can also upload resources to their boards using URLs Free to use.
Try it out: http://learni.st Via Robin Good, Gust MEES 
"SweetSearch is A Search Engine for Students. It searches only credible Web sites approved by Internet research experts."
Read more here: http://www.sweetsearch.com/ The site provides further links to other useful guides that teach web search skills for young students as well as their teachers and parents. Via Anne Whaits 
Mozilla Reveals its 'Webmaker' Education Initiative. Today Mozilla launched a new program it is calling “Mozilla Webmaker” to promote more widespread knowledge about how the internet works and how to help create it.
educationtoday: Your videos all touch on the inadequacies of formal education. In what ways can schools better equip young people with the skills they need to have successful careers and be engaged citizens? 
This Working Paper Series scans the globe to illuminate the ways in which mobile technologies can be used to support the United Nations Education for All Goals; respond to the challenges of particular educational contexts; supplement and enrich formal schooling; and make learning more accessible, equitable, personalized and flexible for students everywhere. Via Nik Peachey 
The Ohio Digital Learning Summit in Columbus was sponsored by KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Fordham Institute, and Nord Family Foundation. Karen Cator, Bryan Hassel, and Susan Patrick spoke about the shift to online and blended learning. 
Overview on gamification with summary of interviews | Pew Internet & American Life Project... List of 2012 award-winning products from annual competition sponsored by the Software & Information Industry Assocation. 
Is it possible that the values of the LMS will become more aligned with those of the ePortfolio? 
My fondest memories of school are of the occasions on which I made stuff. When I think about what other aspects of my learning I enjoyed most, I always come back to the basic principle of creativity. Getting me involved in creative tasks that result in tangible outcomes was one of the ways my teachers ensured that I remained engaged and enjoyed the process of learning. Via Nik Peachey 
"From understanding what digital literacy is, to developing skills and establishing ethical principles for students, our live chat panel share ideas and resources for universities...
Josie Fraser, social and educational technologist, Leicester City Council First define what you mean by digital literacy: The definition I most frequently use is this one: digital literacy = digital tool knowledge + critical thinking + social engagement. Then it's worth knowing its main characteristics: • It supports and helps develop traditional literacies Via Anne Whaits 
These interactives provide educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas. Via Barbara Bray |
Technology is transforming learning for people of all ages. Educational software is merging with gaming to help engage children. In many places textbooks have already moved into the digital realm, and teachers are “flipping ... 
Ronan Farrow, advisor to Secretary Clinton on global youth issues, has been working with young people to change the world with technology. 
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced a new federal Race to the Top District competition, providing nearly $400 million in school district grants to “personalize and individualize” to “take classroom ...
America's education system has become obsolete. "It needs reinventing, not reforming," says Harvard Innovation Education Fellow Tony Wagner. It's time to start with the learner and shake things up. Wagner's new book "Creating Innovators" provides background information, research, and strategies to personalize learning. Via Barbara Bray 
Despite the attention that the videos get, the greatest benefit to any flipped classroom is not the videos. It’s the in-class time that every teacher must evaluate and redesign. 
"It has become clear that teaching skills requires answering “What should students learn in the 21st century?” on a deep and broad basis. Teachers need to have the time and flexibility to develop knowledge, skills, and character, while also considering the meta-layer/fourth dimension that includes learning how to learn, interdisciplinarity, and personalisation. Adapting to 21st century needs means revisiting each dimension and how they interact.: knowledge, Skills, Character, Meta-layer..... The global transformation, often called the "21st century skills" movement is Via Anne Whaits 
What a great name for a virtual conference, Teachers Teaching Teachers about Technology (4t2012)! This conference title spoke to me immediately. This is exactly the kind of collaborative climate I try to create in my own work ... 
Mobile devices and apps continue to climb the list as game-based learning stays in the same spot for three years.
Several examples share how they changed their policies so students can use mobile devices including Foryth County Schools in Georgia and Osseo Area Schools in Minnesota started a "bring your own device" initiative. Now personal learning environments moves up to two to three years. Via Barbara Bray 
The Stages of Personalized Learning Environments (PLE) Version One chart needed to be updated. Why? Because of the considerable feedback we received after posting our first version of the chart. Some of the feedback was about consistency and flow across the stages. What worked in what stage?
We definitely want to thank those that critiqued the stages for us and helped us with this version two. Some districts shared with us that our version one was going to be their foundation of their personalized learning initiative. We wanted to refine it so it was clear, consistent, and easily understood. We went to work to update the stages for them and anyone else moving to a personalized learning environment.
Please feel free to download version two and let us know how it supports your transformation to personalizing learning. Via Kathleen McClaskey Video Presentation by Ms. Trudi van Wyk, Education Specialist -eLearning, Commonwealth of Learning for Open Education Week, 5 - 10 March 2012 (Worldwide) looking at professional development for teachers in Guyana. Via Andreas Link, Score Project 
Schoolers, Edupunks and Makers are showing us what's possible when learners, not institutions, own the education that will define their lives. 
In media studies we often look at the creation of print and digital advertisements. Traditionally, students learn many of the foundational principles for creating a layout through a lecture or text book reading, and then eventually create their own. What if we started with creativity rather than principles? Via JackieGerstein Ed.D. |
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