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Developed by NYC teachers. Free registration. Excellent video tutorial.

"Intrigued by the technology curriculum the principal had developed (digital filmmaking by second grade), Ms. Black quickly zeroed in: had she modeled it after stellar programs elsewhere? Could it be scaled up?"

Unit planning template developed by the DOE's core Innovation Team.

…there will never be such a thing as "riskless ICT"-young people need to be able to develop active ways to deal with both the benefits and the negative aspects of digital life.  

The ePotential ICT Capabilities Rubric supports teachers developing their skills to integrate ICT into their classrooms.

"Forest Lake principal Kappy Cannon didn't leave it up to teachers to decide whether they would join the digital revolution. As long as you provide adequate support, she reasons, you can demand that it be done. This mandate from the boss gave the school's tech-integration team a major boost. Also helpful: instructional-technology specialist Paulette Williams's sweet but insistent approach. When the school got interactive whiteboards, she gave teachers six months to relinquish their old overhead projectors. Then she said, "You can give me the projectors peacefully, or I'm going to take them." "

This article and video explores how one elementary school in Columbia, South Carolina transformed itself into a 21st century teaching and learning community.

I just added this as a Digi Discussion on the CCL for our next Digi Discussion:

Pixar University's Randy Nelson on Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age The Dean of Pixar University explains what schools must do to prepare students (and themselves) for new models in the workplace. This is a fascinating look at what the Pixar workplace is like, and the skills and experiences Randy Nelson sees as vital to develop in students. Some high points; Four main areas- Breadth of experience, Depth of knowledge, Communication, Collaboration. The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance. Employers would rather see the proof of a portfolio versus the promise of a resume. Employers need people who are more interested than interesting. See communication as a destination, not as a source - you aren't the judge of your communication skills - your audience is. Collaboration is amplification, not cooperation.

This would be a great article to share with resistant teachers to help them see the need in moving forward as 21st century educators.

This 4-part video series developed in collaboration with NYC Media, Reel Works and the NYCDOE is a highly provocative Internet safety campaign produced by and for kids.

This is the newly revamped integration model developed by Google, containing the "tools and guidelines" to jump start a Google Apps for Education roll out.

This is awesome. Thank you.

this is a big one.  teacher training, and developing curricula around this are actionable areas for NYC consultants like us.  

Interesting resource developed by a library media specialist that supports standard alignment with CCSS, NYS Standards and the ISTE NEts.

Numerous possibilities for the development of formative and summative assessments

Excellent rubric developed by NYC based organization Teaching Matters as a road map for assessing 21st century schools.

Excellent wiki dedicated towards uncovering how one goes about developing a Personal Learning Network (PLN).

This 21st Century Skills Map is the result of hundreds ofhours of research, development and feedback from educators and business leaders across the nation. The Partnership has issued this map for the core subject of Science. This tool is available at www.21stcenturyskills.org.

This tool, developed by Kid's Vid looks like it has some excellent features for creating a storyboard. Plus it allows you to save the initial storyboard and come back to it later via login.

Loads of resources (videos, lesson plans, etc.) that can help facilitate the development of 21st century learning skills.

Everything old is new again-and that's a good thing! If you've always wanted to collaborate with your history teacher using the Library of Congress (LOC) American Memory Project, but felt overwhelmed by the prospect of having to actually develop lesson plans and collect all of the digital material needed, then it's time to revisit the idea of teaching with primary sources.

It looks like they have done a nice job revamping the "American Memory" website. It is definitely much more user-friendly from previous versions. I highly recommend introducing SS teachers to this amazing tool.

This self assessment checklist, developed by Teaching Matters, designed to "outline a set of critical questions to guide school leaders assess themselves on a continuum of school innovation in a set of critical areas".

Follow up article to the SETDA report released in Nov 08, documenting effective appraoch to ed. tech PD, with school model samples.