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The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world.Links to a number of well done videos and publications from the MacArthur Foundation regarding youth, media, schools, libraries, new media, and learning. -JL No comment yet.
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Innovative educators George Engel, Rob Griffith, Scott Newcomb, Lisa Nielsen, Jason Suter , and Willyn Webb know that when it comes to preparing students for success in the 21st century you not only have to think outside the ban, sometimes you have to dive in head first and break it. The following is a collection of ideas each teacher implemented to successfully break and/or work within the ban where they teach in an effort to empower students with the freedom to use their cell phones as personal learning devices. Via Nik Peachey
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Kathy Schrock, one of the icons of ed tech, has put up a great portal into the world of iPads in education. Find many tutorials, lists of apps, an app search engine, links to articles from all over the web, links to writeups of classroom use, and links to Bloom's Taxonomy and iPads.
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Excellent beginning point for the study of how to foster creativity from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Iowa State University.
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This is Google's page regarding EtherPad, which Google acquired some time ago. Much of the EtherPad functionality has now been built into the Documents portion of Google Docs.
This site lists 5 links to EtherPad services not affiliated with Google.
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Constant interruptions can kill your concentration and put a crimp in your productivity. And according to recent research, you are probably suffering the tyranny of interruptions much more often than you realize. Via Howard Rheingold
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![Blended Learning: A Disruptive Innovation [INFOGRAPHIC] | Into the Driver's Seat | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/-bGZHVWk4UEO_kGHuG8Tezl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Check out this in-depth infographic all about Blended Learning. Learn what it is, why it's spreading, and how it works in real and virtual classrooms.
Created by Knewton and Column Five Media.
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Pedro Noguera writes in the Kappan:
In Newark, N.J. the Broader, Bolder Approach (BBA) reform plan is developing a comprehensive school reform strategy. Operating in seven schools in Newark's Central Ward, BBA has introduced school-based interventions that are responsive to the issues and challenges. Through these interventions, social services, and a concerted effort to increase civic engagement, BBA is working to ensure that environmental hardships related to poverty don't undermine efforts to transform schools.
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Numerous content curation platforms, tools and websites are emerging at a rate of knots in 2011, making sense of the social web, and the mountain of content to be consumed. Here's a collection of some of the standout startups.
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A community toolkit for administrators to build understanding and support for educational uses of Web 2.0.
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Part of the great "7 Things" series from Educause. -JL |
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![Twitter Increases Student Engagement [STUDY] | Into the Driver's Seat | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/XpzStolA7zDJf75r4AiI2Tl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
A professor at Lock Haven University conducted a study that found Twitter improved student engagement.
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Classic Web 2.0 tool. Type out a few lines. Get stuck for a rhyme? Option click on the word and it will list a slew of rhymes for it, sorted by number of syllables. Now I can finally find words that rhyme with Orange! Via Steve dembo, Jennifer Dorman
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Over the last few years I've done a lot of work developing writing and redeveloping online courses and course materials. In the initial rush to get learning online many organisations got themselves a Moodle platform and then attached a whole load of PDFs and .docs, added some forums and the odd video clip and called it an online course. It's no surprise then that drop out rates for online learning courses have been so high. Via Nik Peachey
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Catchfree is a new free online service which allows you to easily check and compare the best free apps across a number of interest areas. - Ads supported or ad-free - Free web hosting - Custom themes - Ease of use - Ease of setup - Download required - Need for registration Via Robin Good, Gust MEES
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Great interactive model which tracks Bloom's Taxonomy against the four Deimensions of Knowledge. Mouse over each cell to view an example. From the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Iowa State University. Via JackieGerstein Ed.D.
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A Race to Develop a Platform for Education There are still debates about what exactly we mean when we talk about Internet “platforms” — is it a matter of infrastructure, extensibility, code execution, content control, delivery mechanisms, and so on.
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RT @InnovativeEdu: The Innovative Educator: Diplomas Don't Prepare Students for the World. Via suifaijohnmak
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Penn State's Learning Design Community is superb.
Have you ever run out of time just when a class discussion became interesting?
Would you like to hear opinions of the quiet students who get lost in the crowd?
Would you like to enhance the critical thinking level of your students?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, consider the advantages of moving some class discussions online.
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The purpose of this guide is to assist school districts in developing, rethinking, or revising Via Miss Noor
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Digital Storytelling is the practice of combining narrative with digital content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component. Digital stories can be instructional, persuasive, historical, or reflective.
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New technologies are making it quicker and easier than ever to create digital portfolios of student work, a method of assessment experts say increases student engagement.
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Free conversion between document, image, music, video, audio, eBook, compressed and CAD formats. No download or account required.
The grand daddy of file format converters. -JL |
