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"Educators are always striving to find ways to make curriculum relevant in students’ everyday lives. More and more teachers are using social media around lessons, allowing students to use their cell phones to do research and participate in class, and developing their curriculum around projects to ground learning around an activity. These strategies are all part of a larger goal to help students connect to social and cultural spaces." Via Beth Dichter, Jim Lerman 
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term.ly provides concise definitions and goes beyond standard thesauri by providing related words that scale the hierarchy of language, allowing you to browse to more and less specific terms, and through relationships Via Nik Peachey
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Nik Peachey's curator insight,
December 18, 2012 7:10 AM
This is a great tool for adding interactivity to images. Really useful for projects on visual literacy or building up vocabulary or just for online discussion of images.
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I've been to something like one hundred conferences and corporate events in the past several years as I travel the world delivering keynotes and running seminars. I've seen a few great speeches. Sadly, most speeches I see are not very... Via NikolaosKourakos
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Thanks to a $10 million+ Kickstarter campaign, Pebble's e-paper smartwatch is coming soon Via michel verstrepen
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If you want to hook readers and reel them in, use brain science. Successful writers know how to use stories to trigger an emotional response. Via Sarah McElrath
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By Richard Byrne
"One of the most popular posts that I've published on Free Technology for Teachers is a list of ten free tools for creating comics online. I wrote that post three years ago. Since then some of the tools have gone offline or started charging users. So I think it's time to share a new list. Here are five free tools for creating comics online."
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By Ashley Prophet Summary by the Accomplished Teacher
"While teachers and students can be hesitant to integrate debate into the writing process, Ashley Prophet, a graduate student, suggests a nontraditional approach that could alleviate fears over tedious debates and rowdy students. Prophet suggests a five-step process in which students seek critical reviews from their friends, adopt an approach in which students prosecute and defend their sentences, and finally use technology to publish their work."
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phrase.it is a free online image editor which lets you add cartoon style speech and thought bubbles to your images. It's extremely easy to use and you will have great looking results within minutes. Via John Dalziel, William Machado, Kathleen Cercone
Krešimir TOMAS's curator insight,
January 13, 2013 6:57 AM
On line program za delat strip oblačke na slikah 
Nancy Jones's curator insight,
January 19, 2013 10:09 AM
This would be enthusiastically received by students, know doubt, who could then extend their visual literacy as well.
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January 19, 2013 7:26 PM
And video of Kurt Vonnegut at the chalkboard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
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Idaho developed Common Core toolboxes for English langauge arts and mathematics.
Each toolbox provides an overview of the standards, instructional materials and resources, and information on the new assessments.
Embedded are links to videos and reports to assist educators and the public in better understanding the standards. Via Mel Riddile, Mark Gillingham
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In this post, we present Vicky Vinton and Dorothy Barnhouse's book What Readers Really Do as one of our highly recommended text for learning what it means to read closely. Via Mark Gillingham, Jim Lerman
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By Paula Bernstein
Every tweet may contain a story. But in 140 characters or less, tweets can only hint at drama, romance, tragedy, and intrigue.Artists Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman take the story one step further into the real world, adding a visual component to.tweets in their "Geolocation" project.
"Using publicly available GPS metadata in Twitter posts, the duo track the location of tweets and take photographs, creating a real-world context for the virtual information. They then pair the photograph with the tweet, often to powerful effect."
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Beth Dichter's curator insight,
January 9, 2013 10:32 PM
Are you looking for ways to learn online this year? Check out this post which provides 13 possibilities for you to explore. A few of them are: * Get inspired by great speeches - listen to speeches from turning points in history, movies and more! * Directory of open access journals - do you need to research a topic? Check out journals that provide free access. * Publish your own graphic novel - Use Comic Master to write a graphic novel (or perhaps, have students in your class use it). * Explore maps - new and old. With GPS we may neglect maps, yet maps are an amazing tool. Learn about geograpgy, culture, history and more as you explore old maps (and new) at a variety of websites. Nine additional links await you when you click through to this post!
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Nik Peachey's curator insight,
December 24, 2012 12:08 PM
Voicee is a form of instant messaging that uses voice instead of text. This is a really nice simple tool for asynchronous voice communications. Great for recording and sending audio drills to students or building up narrative line by line. 
carldowse's curator insight,
December 25, 2012 5:04 AM
A nice simple app for asynchronous speaking practice in the classroom and between lessons. Could be used for practising telephone call or meetings
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Digital comics are a great way to practise language learning in the classroom. Presentation given at AGIS 2013 in Hanover. (@wmjackson RT @slideshare: '20 effective ways to use digital comics in the classroom' is featured on our homepage. Via Jason Dargent, Jim Lerman
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There’s something very attractive about the outsider character. Being rejected and having to strike out alone feels quite romantic. Via mooderino
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Mitch Resnik, the creator of the super-simple Scratch programming language and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, gave a TEDx talk about the value of coding and computer literacy in early education. Via Beth Dichter
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January 24, 2013 9:51 PM
If you have not checked out Scratch, a free programming language from the MIT Media Lab, take the time to listen to this talk by the creator, and then check out the program at the Scratch site, http://scratch.mit.edu/. You may download the program, join an educator's community, check out projects, watch tutorials and much more. One question that is being discussed more and more is if we should teach students programming. We are also told we need to have our students be creators of materials. Scratch may be a program that will help us meet both these goals.
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By Mike Shanahan
"This fine book on writing instruction will soon have a second edition. If you are looking for a good guide for supporting teachers on writing, this is the book I would turn to now. In this new edition there is a lot more common core relevant information, including a chapter that I wrote about "writing about text." For some reason I struggled to write this chapter, but yesterday I read the page proofs and I was happy with it. It provides guidance on all the ways that common core connects reading and writing: summarizing, modeling, analysis/critical response, and synthesis. It should be out soon and for those who have been looking for common core writing help this text should do it."
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In case you didn’t catch it, this week on the TEDx blog, we featured four talks examining advancements in education. Via Vicky Hennegan
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In March 2012, the MacArthur Foundation shared a set of design and learning principles that emerged from their Digital Media and Learning Initiative of which the NWP is a member. These design and learning principles, called "Connected Learning" are meant to support a proposal for a new approach to learning anchored in a rich history of teaching and learning research and theory. They are also being designed to mine the learning potential of the new social and digital media domains.
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Tweet It is no secret that I am a fan of the iPad app BookCreator since its release in 2011. Our students have created several eBooks with the app. You can read about the creation, its process and ... Via John Evans, Jim Lerman
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January 19, 2013 4:58 AM
Bookcreator je découvre cette application et je vais la tester 
Marie Schoeman's curator insight,
January 31, 2013 10:33 PM
An excellent tool for creating differentiated texts
Amber Ramshaw Wakefield's curator insight,
February 26, 2013 1:34 PM
No more leaving a classroom to use the computer-take this with you and use your headphones!
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"Novelist Junot Díazis a Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is “a writer whose finely crafted works of fiction offer powerful insight into the realities of the Caribbean diaspora, American assimilation, and lives lived between cultures.”
"New York Times writer Sam Anderson recently interviewed him, and Diaz provides a number of helpful perspectives on creative expression, for any kind of artist." Via Mark Gillingham
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A look at Henry Jenkins work on participatory learning and PLAY (Participatory Learning and You). So what is PLAY? "...'a mode of experimentation, of testing materials, trying out new solutions, exploring new horizons,' Jenkins said. It’s how kids interact with games – throwing themselves in without reading the rules, testing the limits and feeling free to try and fail."
This post provides a number of examples, discusses assesement and play, and provides links to additional articles on the subject.