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"Some of these reformers do see Khan Academy as "revolutionizing" education, while others, including lots of educators, contend that Khan Academy is actually far from that. As the title of Clive Thompson's Wired article observes correctly: the rules of education are changing. But is Khan Academy the cause? Or the symptom?"

BYOD - Worst Idea of the 21st Century?

This is a MUST TRY site. It's not often that I'm amazed be an educational resource, but I am with this one. Pora Ora is a stunning educational virtual world for Primary school aged students. Play truely fun educational games which practise skills in English, maths and many other subjects. The graphics and useably is superb. Online safety is at the heart of this site. The parential admin account can set the student's account to free chat with everyone to completely locked down where they have the world to themselves and everything in between. The site has a language filter and users can report any incidents of trouble. Also, the first task requires the user to complete an online safety task. The site is free with a few premium features coming out later. You have got to try this one! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

This is definitely something the Primary school should be looking into

"Start small, make training personally relevant, pair staff with knowledgeable co-workers-and keep it fun, readers recommend"

" These "recipe cards" for Project/Problem Based Learning are intended for teachers to use with K12 students in groups, as well as individual students. Each card creates student learning categorized as TimeTravelers, Artists & Inventors, Historian Challenges, StoryTellers, ProblemSolvers, Scientist Challenges, Career & Tech Ed."

share and model the use of currrent internet tools participate in proffesional networks assist students in building learning networks provide sufficient learning opportunities for students to become digitally literate  inspire every child to be quality global citizens

Plenty of things to poke through here

A HootCourse is an online classroom. And then some. Instead of cumbersome forums or complicated lesson-plan formats, HootCourse uses a combination of the most popular social networks and blogging platforms to provide a new type of online classroom.

"7 Top Trends in Social Media"

interactive tool for determining fair use of copyrighted work in Edu.

training and resources for k-12 teachers and students

"Web Tools in 60 minutes' "

"Berners-Lee to protect 'open internet' Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee will work with broadband providers to 'protect the open internet', the Government has announced. "

"Teaching to the Text Message" Ways in which a college professor teaches kids to write concisely.