This video tries to get to the heart of the significace of this number.   Happy Pi Day!

List of skills we're working on this year, brainstormed by us, the sixth grade students at AISB.

Zukerburg, Bill Gates, Wiil.I.Am encourage folks to learn to code

"Media are powerful. A medium is a way of expressing an idea, and while students may resist attempts to formally train their minds, they're naturally drawn to other people's ideas. And that's all media are-structured ways of communicating. Text messages, novels, poems, posters, twitter, quotes, graffiti all express ideas."

"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."

Great ideas to get students reflecting

"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."

Anyone have any experience/knowledge with this iPad App?

MinecraftEdu - Free to Download - "Wonderful World of Humanities" map, featuring various worlds from ancient history and tons of information to read / secrets to find / building projects to collaborate on, etc.

"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."

"But in practice, curriculum maps are almost always not the "living, breathing" documents that experts like Heidi Jacobs Hayes promote. They are instead very dead things -- lifeless prisons of content to be covered, and boxes to be highlighted in Data Team and Professional Learning Community meetings. For a curriculum map or any planned learning experience to be vital -- and vitally useful -- it must be adaptive and circular rather than rigid and linear. It must by design be able to respond to the performance of the students. And more critically, this planned learning experience must encourage students to continue their pursuit of understanding and self-knowledge."