YIS The Networked Educator

"When HGSE Professor David Perkins looked back at his childhood little league and "backyard baseball" experiences he found the perfect metaphor for the set of teaching concepts he presents in his new book, Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education. Perkins' principles are meant for educators to apply in schools, but they are also good advice for anyone wanting to take charge of his or her own lifelong learning."

Great article on the importance of parent's reading with their child and how it will improve test scores when those students are in high school

This is what we are starting to teach in 5th grade library as students prepare to begin a long research project.

Thank you Ruth! This article is just about what I am trying to do with my students for years! This is very motivating! I found out last year that linking evaluating and citing sources is a good think to keep students focused: they search the author, publisher etc... and evaluate at the same time. You can read my blog post http://www.coetail.asia/amthinnes/ "changing the way we are teaching" (Sorry, the blog is difficult to read... getting better every week...) , for more info about it. The link I used so far is not bad from 9 grade, but too difficult for the younger children. If you have a better one, let me know! Anyway, it is great to know that we are at the same page.... Cheers, Anne-Marie

A list of simple activities for classes on digital footprint

COETAIL 2 Week 1

This is an interesting summary of a lecture given about learning

"It's not about the technology it is about teaching and learning. Can a teacher be a good teacher without using technology? Yes. Are they doing their job? No."

There is a long list of collaboration tools here. 

Automatically created .pdf of all tweets with the hashtag #yistne using Tweetdoc. Awesome!

An EARCOS weekend workshop hosted at Yokohama International School on September 17th - 18th, 2011. Facilitated by Chris Betcher and Kim

It went viral in less than a day!

Finally a study that affirms the good vibe that comes from social networking sites http://ow.ly/1s6Nle #edtech #Facebook #tech

RT @brianfarrell: Facebook cited in 20% of US divorces: http://ow.ly/1s7LVh #counseling #marriage #tech

"That panicked feeling we get when the family pet goes missing is the same when we misplace our mobile phone" http://j.mp/mJ4VZH #tech