I wondered aloud to some administrators and teachers later if the stiff policies spoke volumes about what they weren’t teaching in their classrooms K-12 as their students went through the system. I mean wouldn’t it seem that if kids were taught throughout the curriculum about the ethical and appropriate use of computers and the Internet that much more of that policy could be spent going over what students could actually do with the computer rather than the “don’t dos” that were listed? At that point, we’d probably have to change the name to an “Admirable Use Policy” or something, but imagine if students walked in on the first day of class, picked up that policy and read things like:
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Why Silverlight makes sense - 0 views
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I'm just back from Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, where the star of the show was the latest update to the Silverlight browser plug-in that lets you run .NET applications cross-platform and within the browser. The pace of development is remarkable. It is only 9 months ago that we were first shown the beta of Silverlight 3, at the Mix conference in March. Silverlight 3 was fully released in July; and now we have version 4.0 beta, with release promised for the first half of 2010.
Weblogg-ed » Don't, Don't, Don't vs. Do, Do, Do - 10 views
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“Do use our network to connect to other students and adults who share your passions with whom you can learn.”
“Do use our network to help your teachers find experts and other teachers from around the world.”
“Do use our network to publish your best work in text and multimedia for a global audience.”
“Do use our network to explore your own creativity and passions, to ask questions and seek answers from other teachers online.”
“Do use our network to download resources that you can use to remix and republish your own learning online.”
“Do use our network to collaborate with others to change the world in meaningful, positive ways.”
Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning - Emerging Technologies for Learning - 1 views
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planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities
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Just as Gavin Dudeney said in an interview technology should not be an add-on or extra...but it should be part of the syllabus following a sound pedagogical approach and assessment.
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Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning
Free Technology for Teachers: 12 Ways for Students to Publish Slideshows Online - 21 views
Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies - 4 views
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an excellent website with many tools for learning
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 - 53 views
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most are free, so why not try them at least?
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 - 2 views
SMART Notebook Express BETA - 14 views
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Web based trimmed down version of SMART Notebook. View and simple editing of Notebook files. -
it is not necessary to have the software installed
Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List - 39 views
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology - 33 views
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The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary audiences for the EET are students and novice to intermediate practitioners in these fields, who need a brief overview as a starting point to further research on specific topics. Authors are graduate students, professors, and others who contribute voluntarily. Articles are short and use multimedia to enrich learning rather than merely decorate the pages.
Free Technology for Teachers: Why Teachers Use Twitter - 28 views
Time To Know - The Digital Teaching Platform with Core Curriculum - 21 views
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company developing solution for K-12
Look, Ma, no blackboard! - Haaretz - Israel News - 10 views
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whole software system developed for schools
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development in Israel with a couple of trials in the US
Class Blogmeister - 0 views
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Class Blogmeister is one of several blogging engines that have been developed
specifically for classroom use
Will Richardson » home - 11 views
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This is Will's wiki - Why the Read / Write Web Changes Everything.
"It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change" - Charles Darwin
"The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." -- Alvin Toffler
The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave - 40 views
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"Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group."
EdTechTalk | Collaborative Open Webcasting Community - 2 views
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teachers web casting (podcasting) community
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