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Maybe some ideas we could build upon?

"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?

Looks interesting.

Nice, interested in using this in class this year when we talk about sound

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."

Great for HS kids

This might be a useful site.  Anyone up for running an ASA next year? 

Still trying to learn about it. Seems like it's not out yet and we missed the beta. Looks interesting.

"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."

Great quote. Liked reading this article. Seems like it's truncated on Edutopia, though. Tried to comment on edutopia but it's acting all wonky.

in Beta. looks like fun.

Nice video and some great points I think I will put in in my HS tech weekly this week. sse if i get any push back, are we really doing this??