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Using Twitter as a platform for professional development is extremely powerful. However, I often find myself in front of a room full of teachers with the majority having no idea how Twitter works. Even though you may be a social learning master, you must assume that most teachers (and the general public) are thoroughly confused and skeptical. No comment yet.
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This year's crop of devices promises exciting stuff -- like the ability to pack all of your kids' books into one tiny digital device or practice math drills en route to Grandma's house. But if you don't read all of the fine print (and, let's face it, who does?), these new products' high-tech bells and whistles may catch you off guard.
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The game was developed in 2008, and in an updated version, students can embrace a set of values to motivate their choices - pursuing efficient government, for example, lowering taxes, safeguarding the environment or promoting national defense. Using data from the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, the game shows the real-life budget impact of every choice they make.
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Amazon.com's Kindle Fire tablet will leapfrog most competitive offerings to quickly become number two in the market behind Apple's iPad, according to a survey conducted by ChangeWave Research.
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Elementary school Principal Peter DeWitt writes about students' social and emotional health, and how educators can help young people find common ground. He can be found at www.petermdewitt.com.
Every month I made new connections but wasn't really into the whole experience. Then, in early November something amazing happened. I actually understood what Twitter was all about.... I found an elementary education chat session happening on a Saturday evening. I have to admit that I wasn't sure what #elemchat meant but I saw a few of the people I was following add that phrase to what they were posting. I decided to click on #elemchat and I found educators from all over the world posting advice and resources for elementary education.
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Many conversations in education today are focused on "STEM" schools. However these conversations are taking place among individuals and organizations that have little shared understanding of what exactly STEM schools are. This webinar series will provide participants with an opportunity to learn about a range of STEM schools across the country and to share information and engage with one another. The webinars will have an interactive format so that participants can learn about STEM schools directly from school leaders while also sharing experiences and ideas, raising questions, and beginning conversations about similarities and differences across STEM schools. The series will be relevant to anyone interested in STEM education today.
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Last month we launched the 9 Types of Collaborators infographic, a fun way to identify some common and quirky workplace personalities. Now we’ve launched a quiz, “What Type of Collaborator Are You?” to help you identify which character you are!
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Whether it's building cities, rail roads, or even power lines, our interconnected world has a heavy footprint on the rest of the environment.
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In the very foreseeable future, teachers will be able to upload their own videos to the Khan Academy, but also be able to create their own “knowledge maps” or repositories of content for their classes, using videos – within or outside of the Khan Academy – and all of Khan’s analytics, and reporting tools, in order to customize their own curricula.
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Stu Harris, a graduate student at the University of Manitoba, has prepared a cogent and succinct identification of 8 emerging trends in educational technology. It is interesting to compare his observations to the annual Horizon reports http://www.nmc.org/publications/horizon-report-2011-k-12-edition . -JL
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Mr. Harris engages in an extensive and detailed description and analysis of Personalized Learning, selecting it as the most important of the 8 emerging trends in educational technology - thus his choice of "All Roads Lead Here" as the title for this piece. He does an excellent job and provides extensive links for readers to investigate further. -JL
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From Maria Popova
How to get unstuck, or why being a learner is infinitely better than being a knower.
Now, from the fantastic Do Lectures, one of our 10 favorite cross-disciplinary conferences, comes this brilliant and brave talk on why we need to change the way we learn by Alistair Smith, accelerated learning pioneer and one of the UK’s leading innovators in new learning methods.
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By Maria Popova
Last month, the web watched with equal parts amazement, amusement, and sheer horror as a one-year-old thought a magazine was an iPad. And just last week, while attending the Futures of Entertainment 5 summit for my MIT fellowship, I was unsurprised to learn that a presenter’s toddler cousin walked up to a TV screen and tried to “swipe” it like a giant iPad. So I find myself delighted by the release of Goodnight iPad — “a parody for the next generation” by Ann Droyd (get it?), winking at the long-gone quiet era of the Goodnight Moon classic and “adapting” it for the age of LCD WiFi HD TVs and Facebook. |
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Wisdomap helps you to organise your thoughts in a powerful mind map format, and allows you to attach notes, videos, pictures, links and files to your mind maps. Via Baiba Svenca, Ana Rodera
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By Cheryl Steele Oakes
Lately, I've been using Diigo for my professional development. Diigo is a tool for filing bookmarks, articles, collecting research, highlighting information and saving all of this in the Cloud. However, there are so many of my good friends using Diigo and saving and sharing information, that I am using Diigo as my professional development.
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Wireless access to the Internet will soon become a public utility in the small-sized but big-thinking Alabama town of Piedmont.
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Middle school English teacher, Brenda Knobloch, said, “Use of this free technology has afforded my English students exciting new ways to practice their writing skills.” While Knobloch’s English students have developed various types of Web writing this year, she says she recently assigned partners in each of her classes to collaborate on a narrative essay – “from across the room!” “The students are taking turns writing sentences, and they are mentally engaged [during] the whole class period,” she said. “While they are not typing, they are reading and anticipating the evolution of the [essay] plot.”
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As a leading national center for teaching about conflict and social responsibility, ESR has been providing effective and credible resources for teaching important current issues for over 20 years. Our Online Teacher Center provides free teaching resources on a range of issues related to international security, conflict resolution, peacemaking, violence prevention, and social responsibility.
Be sure to check out the Lessons and Activities as well as the Link Library. - JL
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12 year old Adora Svitak teaches 21st century skills to teachers using a smartboard.
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One size does not fit all. User adoption is no exception. If you approach your collaboration strategy with a “one-size-fits-all” mentality, your rollout is far more likely to fail. Within an organization, there exist all different types of users that each prefer to work in their own unique ways – some prefer to work in groups, others in silos, some on iPads, others on pen and paper. They also have different needs for the solution – some just need to share files, or manage tasks, or automate processes with workflows.
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Analysis: Siri, the voice-activated digital assistant and killer feature of the iPhone 4s, has quickly won rave reviews and could transform the search industry. Via Kevin Biles
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TES is a teacher network based in the UK that is similar to Education World (http://www.educationworld.com) based in the US. This particular page contains links to scores of behavior and classroom management sites, primarily from Great Britain. For a chart that shows the correspondance between US grades and UK school years, go to http://homepages.tesco.net/~littlebears/grades.htm
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Screenpresso is a simple tool that will help you capture and annotate screenshots easily. It overrides the Print Screen key. No need to install the application, you can run it directly after download. Don't bother to save screenshots on your drive, Screenpresso does it for you... Via Baiba Svenca
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From Maria Popova
A visual manifesto for keeping the fire in kids' eyes burning.
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By Maria Popova
From squiggle to masterpiece in 30 seconds, or how to refill your annual bucket of creative mojo. |
