APS ITCs

Depending on the Tycoon game it can be very educational. If you remember the old lemonade stand, that could be thought of as a tycoon game.

Building a 21st century school now has an easy answer: Google Apps Education Edition

Building a 21st century school now has an easy answer: Google Apps Education Edition Google Message Security, powered by Postini, is included free for K-12 schools who sign-up by July 2010. No hardware to maintain, no software to install, no ads, and no cost for schools.

Just a bit of humor.

The augmented reality that Harvey showed at the SUCCESS keynote

from craig nansen

What scares me is that some of the people reading this won't think it's a big deal that a few people are still using IE6 in Arlington...

Nice comprehensive list.

Learning, on the other hand, is 'getting it'. It's the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning doesn't care about workbooks or long checklists.

It's a link dump but has some great gems. Check out Orisinal for some a good games site even for in school.

Language Art Games upper elementary, middle school

In the classroom, classical music can be an exciting tool. The Classics for Kids® lesson plans and teaching resources give teachers practical, effective plans and activities that use classical music to help children learn. and meet national and state standards. They are based on National Standards for the Arts and state Academic Content Standards for Music, as well as on Theory of Multiple Intelligences. The materials also incorporate various philosophies, including those of Orff, Dalcrose, and Kodaly.

...especially true if the classroom has a Smart Board

Mike Fisher, an instructional coach and education consultant, has created an interesting wiki called Visual Blooms. Visual Blooms inserts web resources into the hierarchical categories of Bloom's Taxonomy. Web resources are placed into the categories of remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. For example, Delicious is placed in the remembering category while VoiceThread is placed in the creating category. Thanks to Beth Still for sharing the link to Visual Blooms on Twitter.

Whenever the "new blooms" gets mentioned I get the impression that people jump to the creation part as the immediate goal for any lesson. Those levels should always be stressed as developmental stages. Where as I understand how each of those tools fit neatly into the categories, I believe they are more powerful if you can guide the user through each of the developmental stages using one tool. Imagine teaching to remember using Voicethread. Continuing on through evaluating others Voicethreads. Then taking the students to create their own. It makes the pyramid more powerful. :-)