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

think we should consider getting this for all ms students; h.s. too; depends on licenses available; it's a great tool; best mindmapper out there imho

Agreed, tried lots of mind mapping tools, this one seems to rank towards the top on ease of use. The fact that it can be integrated with Google Apps makes it all the more attractive to us at AISB.

"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."

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

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.

Anyone have any experience/knowledge with this iPad App?

"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."

Maybe some ideas we could build upon?

Great ideas to get students reflecting

"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."