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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.”

his is one of the keys to judging student learning of the future because if individuals, like Daniel Pink, are correct and the future belongs to pattern-seekers, it is imperative that students are capable of seeing these connections across all disciplines.

This is one of the keys to judging student learning of the future because if individuals, like Daniel Pink, are correct and the future belongs to pattern-seekers, it is imperative that students are capable of seeing these connections across all disciplines.

Beyond these activities it is important that students ask themselves the following questions: What are the foundational elements of this topic? What caused people to begin exploring this topic? How has this topic been altered over the course of time? How will this topic change over the course of the next fifty years? What other ideas from the outside can be integrated into this topic in the future to make it better? Using the answers to the questions above, what qualities can I take from this topic to prompt deeper thinking about other areas of life that interest me? Instead of collecting the “assessment”, what would happen if you collected student answers to these questions instead?

In relation to classroom practice, students' learning experiences must help them to assume a critical stance when responding to or creating texts. They need to discover how texts are constructed and how they work. Students need to understand what texts are attempting to do and they need to move toward taking an active, meaning-making position with regard to texts. This webcast will explore what critical literacy is, why it is essential, and what it might look like in an elementary classroom. This webcast is intended to promote professional dialogue and positive action toward improving student achievement.

Our obsession with online safety for children is excessive. It is driven by group-think and fear, generated by media and interested parties who often ignore any rigorous evidence-based approach to the issues, or even bother to explore a simple risk analysis.

says that the internet is simply a mirror of our society that due to its hyperconnectivity is amplified. This means our concerns about online bullying, online sexual predators and our children stumbling across inappropriate content on the world wide web are simply heightened concerns that have always existed in the world – real and virtual.

As bullying is more visible we are hearing more stories and reports about it in the media.

1. Establish a maker camp or build an arcade in the style of Caine’s Arcade.

2. When establishing a makerspace, focus on the students first.

3. Remember, it’s not about the space, it’s about the mindset.