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Interesting look into their privacy polices and what it could mean for Education users

"Traditional instruction places far too much emphasis on content. The problem isn't just that what students need to know can't be known. The unreasonable amount of information dumped on them, the brief life in memory of most of it, and easy electronic access to a near-infinite amount of it, make merely delivering information a poor use of time. Focusing on the real world rather than on second-hand textbook versions of reality, and understanding the process by means of which sense is made of that world, are keys to new worlds of performance."

"The test of life is not whether we can remember what we learn in school, but whether we are prepared for change," says Schleicher. "Whether we are prepared for jobs that haven't been created and to use technology that haven't been invented to solve problems we just can't anticipate today."

Good summary of the ideas brought forth in TED talks about learning and teaching.

Have you seen this site before might be useful as it links to the nets standards in all of the lesson plans?

"Learn how to use Google Apps in the classroom with a new bi-weekly webinar series lead by Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers. Webinars will be held biweekly on Tuesdays, 3:30PM MT and will also be recorded and archived. (There is NO COST for these webinars.) "

more pd resources, free

Looks a very good site which lots of examples and videos to look at.

More on apps from an Apple educator.  I think he demoed some of these at the Apple event we went to

All things to do with search

Great resource. thanks. Have shared it with ms students.

"it is important to recognize that the media are themselves a product of society, and thus are shaped by fundamental processes of social change. The same technologies can be taken up for progressive or more traditional education goals."

Students already do this on their own with Skype at AISB

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