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Thorough website about implementation, apps, learning outcomes and technical tips

Sam Gliksman blog. Also info on deployment, tips and tricks. iPad overview site

Ning many ADEs on here

opinion of iPad potential

Dave Brown's App recommendation site for educational Apps. Has tutorials, testimonials and discussion feed

DigMo! is tech-ed site covering mini discoveries, tips, apps, and website finds. The site is managed by an Apple Distinguished Educator and Photographer and all opinions are my own.

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a national organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for every student. As the United States continues to compete in a global economy that demands innovation, P21 and its members provide tools and resources to help the U.S. education system keep up by fusing the three Rs and four Cs (critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation).

This message is especially important for those of us who develop ed tech products but is a big heads up for anyone who thought the iPad just might be a fad.

"I think this could very well be the biggest thing to hit school technology since the overhead projector," Mr. Wolfe said.

We welcome you to our wiki and blog for supporting iPod & iPad devices in education. Although our focus is K-12, many of the techniques should work for you at any level and with any number of devices.

Higher-order thinking essentially means thinking that takes place in the higher-levels of the hierarchy of cognitive processing. Bloom's Taxonomy is the most widely accepted hierarchical arrangement of this sort in education and it can be viewed as a continuum of thinking skills starting with knowledge-level thinking and moving eventually to evaluation-level of thinking.

His goal in formulating this classification was to increase precision in the discussion of educational goals among teachers, administrators, and researchers.

Apps for kids. Search by age educational, free, games, creative, and books

It is Benjamin Bloom's belief that the entry point to learning is the acquisition of knowledge. He postulates that a solid foundation of terms, facts, theories, and skills is the educational base that will allow the mind to evaluate information effectively and inspire innovation.

During the 1990's a new group of cognitive psychologist, lead by Lorin Anderson (a former student of Bloom's), updated the taxonomy reflecting relevance to 21st century work. The graphic is a representation of the NEW verbage associated with the long familiar Bloom's Taxonomy. Note the change from Nouns to Verbs to describe the different levels of the taxonomy

About this webmix : Most of the sites from the 60 in 60 session at ISTE 11. These are educational sites to try and integrate into your classroom.

iPad professional development