Literacy with ICT

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Twitter is in effect a scalable, intelligent search engine with an amazing memory capacity. Twitter is capable of understanding natural language, dealing with ambiguity, and engaging in conversations – at least to the extent that people can The crowd might not always have the answer for your problem, but they may point you in a new direction, or even create the answer for you. What people want will be visible for all to see.

The phrase “21st-century skills” is everywhere in education policy discussions these days, from faculty lounges to the highest echelons of the U.S. education system.

Broadly speaking, it refers to a push for schools to teach ­­­critical-thinking, analytical, and technology skills, in addition to the “soft skills” of creativity, collaboration, and communication that some experts argue will be in high demand as the world increasingly shifts to a global, entrepreneurial, and service-based workplace.

But now a group of researchers, historians, and policymakers from across the political spectrum are raising a red flag about the agenda as embodied by the Tucson, Ariz.-based Partnership for 21st Century Skills, or P21, the leading advocacy group for 21st-century skills. Array of Skills In the Partnership for 21st Century Skills’ vision for K-12 education, the arches of the rainbow depict outcomes, while the pools represent the resources needed to support those outcomes. But critics contend that states implementing this vision might focus too heavily on discrete skills instruction, at the expense of core content. SOURCE: Partnership for 21st Century Skills Unless states that sign on to the movement ensure that all students are also taught a body of explicit, well-sequenced content, a focus on skills will not help students develop higher-order critical-thinking abilities, they said at a panel discussion here in the nation’s capital last week.

Here is a chance to play with the first 200 million digits of pi and realize the awesome power of a number that goes on theoretically forever without repeating itself.

Use Flickr toys to make a magazine cover

Create trading card sets.(Flick Toys - http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php

1. Use Flickr toys to make a magazine cover.

RSS is your friend.

How does information come into your classroom? Who controls it? Who gets to find it and mandate it for use? A lot of the work I've done this year focuses on getting quality information from global sources into my classroom and for my students to use on a daily basis.

How does information come into your classroom? Who controls it? Who gets to find it and mandate it for use?

A lot of the work I've done this year focuses on getting quality information from global sources into my classroom and for my students to use on a daily basis.

RSS is your friend.

Sexting is the clever new name for the act of sending, receiving, or forwarding naked photos via your cell phone.

Sexting is the clever new name for the act of sending, receiving, or forwarding naked photos via your cell phone.

Sexting is the clever new name for the act of sending, receiving, or forwarding naked photos via your cell phone.