Blogging with students, no doubt, has captured the attention of many educators around the world. We have to STEP IT UP, as we are learning that blogging with our students requires a SHIFT in the way we, as teachers...
Project RED is a national research and advocacy plan to investigate how technology can help us re-engineer our education system. Check the 9 key factors that lead to ed tech success.
Link to a fascinating article by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter-Hall titled "Connected Coaches in Connected Spaces" on how online coaches "lead members of online communities through a process that results in a shared vision of new ways of learning together in online spaces."
My colleague, Jon Bergmann, and I have a book coming out soon that I hope brings clarity to what most of us mean by "The Flipped Classroom." In the mean time, I hope to shed some light on some of the confusion, critique, and hype.
To understand how social media, an almost integral part of our current culture, can benefit K-12 schools and districts, we asked eSchool News readers: “Name one way you use social networking in your school/district.
Wonderful blog post by Tamara Fisher about using Symbaloo to help guide her gifted students in Montana. Don't miss the link to her Symbaloo homepage, which offers a terrific example of how to use this tool well. Many additional resources for gifted education also mentioned. Much of what Tamara advocates and does can and should be done with all students.
Are we there yet? Psychologists watch the events inside a spaceship on closed-circuit monitors 24/7. Here's what the extreme, extended isolation of a simulated mission to Mars does to the body and mind.
The bottom line? Digital learning should liberate teachers’ lives by making the opportunities for success far more frequent, and the opportunities for teachers to pursue what they like and their passions about the teaching profession far more possible.
How many slaves work for you? There are 27 million slaves in the world today. Many of them contribute to the supply chains that end up in the products we use every day. Find out how many slaves work for you, and take action.
Discovery Education is a great resource for educators, with assessment tools, streaming videos, TechBooks (online, interactive "textbooks") and much more. But not every district subscribes to their paid products.
This is a list of 25 (and some bonus) free resources for educators from Discovery Education.
The Education Media Network. Ed Reach fills in the void left by main-stream media outlets by covering the innovative, provocative, relevant, and cutting-edge education news that happens every single day. It's more than just a blog, it's an education media network full of podcasts, blogs, media, and more.
Outstanding collection of tools for nine 21st Century literacies compiled by one of the great leaders of the information literacy movement - Debbie Abilock. Intriguing resources for: Basic Language Literacy, Visual Literacy, Spatial Literacy, Historical Literacy, Cultural Literacy, Information Literacy, Politcal and News Media Literacy, Scientific Literacy, and Mathematical Literacy.
As online learning becomes more ubiquitous in schools and districts across the nation, a leading online-learning organization has updated its national standards intended to help shape high-quality online teaching practices.
A growing collection of more than 30 research reports, planning guides, and apps from one of the UK's leading ed tech think tanks. All topics address ed tech and its relationships to areas such as home-school relationships, social media, digital literacy, curriculum, teaching, games, and more.
A conference in Madrid ponders an era of escalating costs and ever-increasing mobility, predicting that the duration of academic programs would shrink and that huge classrooms will become less the norm.
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