maestro Julio

This topic shows how to put professionalism in our Routine and get it accommodate in our work.

every child in our world MUST count - 

Educación primaria y deserción escolar.

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Infographic

Lots of great information addressing access to and use of technology by children!

Not sure about the whole 'native versus immigrant'...#Prensky's idea, upon reading his book, does not lead me to believe in the term 'native' as so many seem to misconstrue this term (a tad out of whack).  I'm not young and my adult daughter says that it's like I've been born with tech literacy and she wasn't?! I think it is about openmindedness, resourcefulness, inquisitiveness, creativity and more...I argue that you don't need to be born in the 1990's to be a digital native! I wasn't!

I am not raised with a smartphone and slowly i am loosing speed in staying up to date with technology where the youngsters still can handle it 

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence

- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/what-you-should-know-about-twitter-chats/

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Twitter+Chat

- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/how-to-use-twitter-with-success-for-education-and-more/

Édifiant...surtout quand on vit au quotidien avec les énormes réticences des universités Françaises :-) 

World Interactive Map 

Saving this for my Social Studies classes ;)

Fantástico mapa interactivo muy útil para trabajo en aula.

K-12 blended learning primer

Nice infographic on blended learning.

Blended learning has much potential.  However, it is only PART of the solution to why ails education today.  It is not a replacement for funding.  Adequate funding, whether online of f2f, must go hand in hand.  You can't maximize the potential of education while cutting necessary $$$.

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Learning+2+Learn

Check it out and learn from it!!!

A MUST read!!!

Definitely well worth a read

My Thoughts:

You can't teach someone how to learn. You can give them helpful tips and advice, but a single structure for education is not going to work for everyone. It's so much harder for people to learn their true potential, to reach their goals, when they're only shown a single path to them. You show them the path through the forest, but what if there's a rock face nearby that also leads up to where they want to go, and what if they happen to be a fantastic rock climber? It just makes more sense to show someone a map if you can, instead of directing them towards only one path.

“Learning is most effective when it’s personalised; it means something to the learner. That happens when people feel they are participants and investors in their own learning, shaping what and how they learn, and able to articulate its value to them.” — Leadbeater, Charles

Famous Self-Taughts (Autodidacts): Leonardo Da Vinci, William Blake, Herb Rits (in addition to Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, John D. Rockefeller, and many others)