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Into the Driver's Seat
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Building learners' independence through thoughtful technology use
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Skype has launched a free online platform aimed at connecting teachers with other educators and classrooms around the globe.
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Regularly updated list of educator-friendly resources for iPad devotees.
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Easy way to use hashtags in Twitter to connect with people and ideas for your own growth and sharing. This is how to get started.
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Free online course for teachers on how to use Web. 2.0 in the classroom from HP. Very nicely done. Done miss chapter 3 "Assessing web 2.0 sites for the classroom." Very important tool for discovery.
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Simply imagine that the world lived with the same den si ty of a real city, and see how much area they take up. If we all lived like they do in San Francisco (space-wise), we’d take up just under 398k square miles, or rather, only four states. Same density as New York? We’d all fit in Texas.”
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If you only judged by the alarmist newspaper headlines, you’d think American education was on the brink of a nuclear holocaust.
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The first commercially available cell phone, released in 1983, weighed nearly two pounds, cost $3,995, and had a battery that lasted about as long an episode of Benson.
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Prototype shown; concept video on this site; 18 months to the market, $800 target price. Wow!
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Deep conversation about the Mozilla Foundation's compelling Open Badges project. Listen or download mp3.
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Informed articles and commentary on this powerful and often misunderstood concept. Via JackieGerstein Ed.D.
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Peer into Aaron Sams' classroom as he explains why he flipped his classroom. Aaron Sams, along with Jonathan Bergmann were the first to flip their classes. T... Via JackieGerstein Ed.D.
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Patrick Ledesma is a National Board-certified teacher and School Based Technology Specialist in Fairfax, Virginia, where he focuses on instructional-technology integration and special education at the middle school level. |
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Would be very useful for giving pupils links to further reading, especially if you use iPads in your classroom
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Edu.glogster.com is a free Web 2.0 software where students can create an electronic posterboard with premade graphics, decorated textboxes and animations.
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Transferring videos to your iPad or iPhone to watch them on the go can be a bit tedious. While using the an app like VLC for iPad can make it much easier, without the need to convert ...
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This site is for teachers and educators of all grade levels and subject areas. It hosts 25 short tutorial videos on many of the best digital tools to use with students. Its also a growing community of ideas submitted by teachers for classroom use.
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Nice writeup of 10 tools used by Nik Peachey in running a summer tech course for teachers.
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Where you sit in the classroom can make or break you in school.
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Humans doing the following jobs might want to keep an eye out for a new computerized coworker. (Click to enlarge; reprinted with permission of Mindflash. Infographic by Colin Dobrin).
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Perhaps the pre-eminent social network devoted to education in the future. Marvelous collections and collaborations facilitated by Steve Hagadon. Something always happening
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ONLINE AND FREE Nov. 14-18, 2011 Live and then archived The conference is a collaborative, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for building education-related connections around the globe while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity.
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Many educators are experimenting with the idea of a flipped classroom model. Find out what it is and why everyone's talking about it.
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Mark and Kelly Bowers, clinical psychologists with Kansas backgrounds, show off "Sosh," the mobile-device application and accompanying book that helps young people dealing with Asperger's Syndrome. |
