School leaders around the United States continue to spend HUGE amounts of money on interactive whiteboards for classrooms, despite the fact that these devices universally FAIL to empower students to become more independent, self-directed and engaged learners in the way mobile learning devices (like laptops, tablets or other personal digital learning tools) can. Please do not misunderstand me: It definitely IS a big deal for a teacher and his/her students to have access to an LCD projector connected to a computer in the classroom if previously, the "normal" technology in the room was an overhead projector.

Safety tips for parents/kids, educators and the law. From Facebook for Facebook.  

This is a New Tech Network school that is supposed to be one of the best in terms of whole-school integration of project-based learning in a one-to-one environment.  

Any DSS folks done this? 

If you're mapping, and teachers have iPads and iPhones this is always a nice a-ha surprise.

Aha moment today.  I'm sure one of you already thought of this!

A lot of us are intuitively doing this already, but it's always nice to have some concise writing like this behind us!  

Create a story based on a set of images provided by the software.  

Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century addresses this vital question, taking viewers to the frontlines of what is rapidly becoming an education revolution. The film, targeted at parents, teachers, and anyone concerned about education in America, explores how exceptional educators are increasingly using digital media and interactive practices to ignite their students' curiosity and ingenuity, help them become civically engaged, allow them to collaborate with peers worldwide, and empower them to direct their own learning.

videos from big Digital Media thinkers...

Tour museums around the world with street view.  

Good anecdote for lessons on Internet research best practices.  The right answer is not always going to be at the top or even on the first page of results! 

Replacement for Kickyoutube.com We need to try this from within the DOE proxy and find out if we can copy URLs of youtube videos from a Google search index and paste them into here to download.  That would be nice.  

Yeah -- I tried both of these options and can't get them to work. The proxy still picks up the words "youtube" in the URL and blocks it "Reason: The Websense category "Youtube and video Google" is filtered.". So they'll still need to download from home.

Speaks to the relevance of what we do.  Digital Citizenship.  The power in new access to broadband, and the power of governments to pull the plug.  

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

Math in movie scenes.  This can be a prompt for kids to make their own stories around math problems!