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"What is 21st century learning? It is collaboration. It is creativity. It is critical thinking and problem-solving. It is research and information literacy. It is digital citizenship. It is responsible use. We expect our children to develop these skills. We integrate these skills in our every day lessons so that our students can grow and expand their knowledge. We create spaces so that our students can create and collaborate, whether it is a physical space or a virtual space. We expect our students to be good digital citizens, using devices, programs, and tools responsibly.  We want our students to ask questions and explore for answers.  We expect our students to learn, grow, and then reflect on that learning. So, wouldn't we expect the same skills for ourselves as educators and professionals?"

"Google is usually one of the first places students turn to when tasked with an assignment. Whether it's for research, real-time results, or just a little digital exploration … it's important they know how to properly Google. Lucky for teachers (and students, of course), Google has a handy set of lesson plans that are just waiting to be unleashed upon the leaders of tomorrow."

"The shift and caps lock key in iOS can be toggled at will to either capitalize a word or to type out something in ALL CAPS, but using the new Quick Type keyboard, you can switch casing of existing words very easily. This works really well on the iPhone and iPad, and once you learn how to use this, it'll probably become your preferred way to capitalize a word that has already been typed out, or to switch the casing to all upper or lower case."

"In a first-grade classroom at Peralta Elementary School in Oakland, children concentrate on detailed pencil drawings of scenes from the underground railroad. Safehouses and trap doors appear on paper. One boy is drawing dogs with pointy teeth. Here at Peralta, art is never just about art. These first-graders are learning about history, but they're also practicing math, measuring with their fingers to figure out where to draw horizon lines. Teacher Pam Lucker is helping the students include perspective."

"For many years, I have sent a letter to my soon to be students near the end of the summer. I do this to ease any anxiety some of them may have, to help them feel part of the class before they arrive and because…well…it's a letter. Children do not receive letters very often, so print written just to them is significant. It's a literacy thing."

"And I sincerely hope that Touch Van Gogh, the newly updated, free, award-winning app from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is only the beginning of a larger touching art trend. Made for tablets, Touch Van Gogh allows viewers to explore the details, technique and history of six of Vincent van Gogh's masterpieces: The Cottage, View from Theo's Apartment, The Bedroom, Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Garden of the Asylum, and Daubigny's Garden."

"How do you teach programming to children with no prior programming experience? How do you teach programming to children that can yet read or write?"

"Have you just unwrapped your new iPad and you're still wondering where to start from? Or are you a seasoned iPad user looking for great tricks to use your iPad more efficiently? Then you came to the right place, because in this article you are going to learn a lot of cool things that you can do with your iPad that most people don't know about. These tricks will leave you glued to your iPad craving for more."

Ex-Penn St. associate Sandusky in prison for abuse http://alturl.com/qtoji BELLEFONTE, Pa. - Jerry Sandusky was charged Saturday of intimately battling 10 young boys over 15 decades, suggestions that smashed the Satisfied Area picture of Penn Condition baseball and led to the shooting of Area of Popularity instructor Joe Paterno. Sandusky, a 68-year-old outdated protecting instructor who was once Paterno's heir obvious, was in prison for 45 of 48 number. Sandusky revealed little sentiment as the judgment was study. The assess requested him to be taken to the city prison to welcome sentencing in about three months. He encounters the likelihood of life in prison.The assess suspended Sandusky's help and requested him locked up. In trial, Sandusky half-waved toward household as the cops led him away. Outside, he gently stepped to a sheriff's car with his arms cuffed before side of him. As he was placed in the car, someone screamed at him to "rot in terrible." Others thrown insults and he shaken his go no in reaction. The accuser known in trial documents as Sufferer 6 split down in rips upon listening to the decisions in the trial docket. bsequently, a district lawyer accepted him and said, "Did I ever lie to you?"

"Flipboard has long been a staple on mobile devices, but last week it expanded its reach even further to add a web version. So, if you don't have access to your favorite mobile device, or you want a break from a small screen, you can quickly and easily access all your favorite articles online via a laptop or desktop computer."