21st Century Learning at BSS

recently launched at KQED Public Media in the Bay Area. Each week on KQED Edspace (our education blog) we offer KQED Do Now http://www.kqed.org/donow, an activity for students to engage with current issues using Twitter. Each week, we focus on a specific area - civics, government and policy, science, and arts and cover a story based on that topic. We provide a brief introduction to the topic, embed a media resource, and ask a question for students to discuss...

I found a great two part tutorial that I screen captured that really provides an amazing step by step walk through of Timeline for Brands. I am pretty sure it will get you prepared to make your Timeline shine for your brand. Take a look at the two videos below and they should answer EVERY question that you have about how Timeline will work for your brand.

Over half of all devices at this year's CES, the world's largest consumer electronics trade show, were Internet Nearly 60% of those were non-traditional computing devices such as TVs, cars, refrigerators and washing machines. Connected devices are proliferating throughout our homes and the world around us. Which means consumers are about to become a whole lot more connected to the world.

Luke NeffI teaches, which mainly consists of showing interesting things to students and asking questions like Ira Glass. These are some of the daily writing prompts that I use in class.

Nice set of photo prompts that can be used to support learning. John T. Spencer writes, " I've been updating them and adding them to a new Photo Prompts Tumblr

This is a beautiful video which outlines how your identity is formed on the web.

Google may offer 25GB free storage vs 2GB for Dropbox

How do we fix math education? The importance of math to jobs, society, and thinking has exploded over the last few decades. Meanwhile, math education has gotten stuck or has even slipped backward.

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My friend and colleague, @brendasherry, recently wrote a thoughtful post called What is Deep Understanding? She asked several excellent questions: what kind of thinkers do we want our students to be? what is deep understanding? can schools really provide the learning environment to nurture and develop it? In thinking about these questions, I would like to ask: "How can we help novice learners become more expert learners?"

Schedule | Speakers | Sponsors The Computer-Based Math Education Summit brought together an unprecedented cross section of leaders with a stake in math-from industry, technology, government, and education-to answer the question, "In an era of ubiquitous computing, how should we rebuild math education from the ground up, to keep pace with and drive progress in the real world?"

I thought it'd be a good idea to remind you why TED rocks. Below is just a small fraction of the amazing presentations put on by the folks over at TED. Each one of the presentations embedded below is perfect for sharing with students and showing in class*

Annotate pics on the iPad

To paraphrase John Wanamaker, "Half the content you create on social networks is wasted." Find out which half! Visibli categorizes and tracks your content to help you to share better.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a vision for the K-12 education system in the 21st century. "Traditional skills like literacy, numeracy, and critical thinking need to be applied in different ways and supplemented with new skills and attributes in order for students to become full participants in a knowledge-based society."

The vision of a 21st century K-12 education system is rooted in personalised learning. It focuses on providing students the skills they need to participate in a knowledge-based society, while also allowing them to explore an educational path that is best suited to their interests, their capabilities and their chosen future. Such a vision means the system must be transformed in a number of ways.

One-stop online source for FREE and low-cost resources for creating exciting multimedia content! The links below have been compiled as a resource directory for teachers, trainers, and developers.

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Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history.