ABCICT

"Good learning starts with questions, not answers". Guy Claxton, Professor in Education and Director of CLIO Development University of Bristol. Questioning enables teachers to check learners' understanding. It also benefits learners as it encourages engagement and focuses their thinking on key concepts and ideas.

""In this age of copy-and-paste, digital cheating needs to be addressed on two fronts. First, we need to educate our students at an early age to respect and cite the work of others. Second, if all we ask is for our kids to regurgitate information, then we miss the mark. It is our responsibility as educators to craft assignments that require critical thinking, evaluation, and creation.""

"The Information Literacy Game"

of interest...look fors, what are we looking for?

stanford app for ios development lessons

A great presentation on the roles of teachers and how they have changed.

screencasts about all the greatest tech tools for education.

"All students can have an iPad for use at school and at home, and initially that meant about 500 of them. There are currently about 900 students in the school and that number will rise to 1,100. It's a classic e-Learning Foundation equity scheme so it also includes families on very low incomes as well the better off. The iPad2s cost around £16 per month over three years and the cash comes from a mix of voluntary parental contributions, school funding and e-Learning Foundation mediated support."

"Santa Tecla contará con un espacio para inculcar la lectura a los niños Una biblioteca municipal funcionará en el Palacio Tecleño y beneficiará a los infantes del municipio "

They visited us last week and are very excited about the ideas they are taking back to La Teclita.

"Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies."

I am not sure how bad the results I am given are...it is a whole lot of info mind you.

Watch the video. This is very cool!

"But equipping a classroom with iPods is far cheaper than a full set of computers for a classroom."

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"GOOGLE MODEL YOUR TOWN OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

a very cool screencasting app, free with a watermark, that allows you to annotate your screencasts.

"I work in an Independent School in Melbourne, Australia, and this year we have made a commitment to help our students (grades 7-12) create ePortfolios, using an Edublogs campus as the platform. Here are 5 reasons why we are making student blogging and portfolio development a high priority."

Cyberbully? No Way, Not Me-paid for subscription

game-based learning units for the everyday teacher

"Why not you? Make your New Year's resolution learning to code. Sign up on Code Year to get a new interactive programming lesson sent to you each week and you'll be building apps and web sites before you know it"

We really must get to work on setting up a code club.

"At Google, we support the education of families on how to stay safe online. That's why we've teamed up with online safety organization iKeepSafe to develop curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible online citizen. The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. On this site you'll find a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation. "