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This blog post is dedicated to all of the overworked teachers who just don't have the time to seek out this information. I have provided brief explanations, links to and pictures of the tools mentioned by Simple K12 (and a couple of my favorites). I hope this makes it more manageable for teachers to pick and choose which tools they want to use.

I posted this yesterday on Google+ and it seems to have been well-received so I thought I'd share it again. In February of 2010 I designed a short activity for my students to compare textbooks, Wikipedia, and primary source documents on a given topic. Next week my students will be doing this activity with a slight modification to match where we are in the curriculum right now.

With millions of public high school students taking at least one course online, a new report says that virtual schools are too often subject to minimal oversight and that there is no-high quality research showing that cyber education is an acceptable full-time replacement for traditional classrooms.

Here are the new rules: Create your own education. Find problems and solve them.  Be unique.  Make beautiful, useful stuff.  Build a network of really smart people who you will never meet.  Be indispensable.  Do real work that changes the world.  Have a brand.  Share widely and safely.  Collaborate. Add value.  Be a voracious learner.  Tread softly but boldly.  Edit the world. (Add yours below.)

Meaningful change ain't gonna happen for our kids if we're not willing to invest in it for ourselves first. At the heart, it's not about schools…it's about us.