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Best Educational Wikis of 2009 by Wikispaces: best-of examples of using wikis in the classroom (1) interact with schools around the world; (2) share classroom activities; (3) turn online class notes into end-of-year exams

Ed.gov's National Education Technology Plan 2010:

Creative Commons: what every educator needs to know - great slide presentation to show to class

Open Thinking Wiki: begun by Alec Couros, ICT Coordinator of the Faculty of Education, University of Regina - as a resource for courses he teaches in education and media studies. Great example of well framed edtech site.

CATE should have something at LEAST this nice

John Seely Brown: "Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes John Seely Brown. Traditional educational methods may be smothering their innate drive to explore the world. Brown and like-minded colleagues are developing the underpinnings for a new 21st century pedagogy that broadens rather than narrows horizons. John Seely Brown, former chief scientist at Xerox, has morphed in recent years into the "Chief of Confusion," seeking "the right questions" in a range of fields, including education. He finds unusual sources for his questions: basketball and opera coaches, surfing and video game champions. He's gathered insights from unorthodox venues, and from more traditional classrooms, to paint quite a different picture of what learning might look like. The typical college lecture class frequently gathers many students together in a large room to be 'fed' knowledge, believes Brown. But studies show that "learning itself is socially constructed," and is most effective when students interact with and teach each other in manageable groups. Brown wants to open up "niche learning experiences" that draw on classic course material, but deepen it to be maximally enriching. In basketball and opera master classes, and in architecture labs, he has seen how individuals become acculturated in a "community of practice," learning to "be" rather than simply to "do." Whether performing, creating, or experimenting, students are critiqued, respond, offer their own criticism, and glean rich wisdom from a cyclical group experience. Brown says something "mysterious" may be taking place: "In deeply collective engagement in processes...you start to marinate in a problem space." Through communities of practice, students' minds "begin to gel up," even in the face of abstraction and unfamiliarity, and "all of a sudden, (the subject) starts to make se

Communicating educational research to general, nonresearcher audiences

Open Education: Opening up eduation book (for free!) on MIT Press

Innovations in Education Wiki: CATE associates join! great resource (the print version has been ordered over 10,000 times)...

Innovations in Education Wiki

AECT: Association for Educational Communications and Technology

AECT: Association for Educational Communications and Technology

Wisconsin Center for Education Research

Wisconsin Center for Education Research

Educational Research links

Educational Research links

The Chronicle of Higher Education (article): Augmented Reality on smartphones brings teaching down to earth

infographic of the amount of money spent per pupil in each state and the graduation rates per state

FutureLab: Innovation in Education - based in the U.K., this consortium works to "transform the way people learn through innovative technology and practice"

This is a good model for CATE to study and replicate

Nibipedia is an online educational video database of high-quality content that grows in value through community collaboration. Built using a wiki-like construct, members of the Nibipedia community annotate and share Nibipedia videos, via "deep links" to specific moments in video time, with commentary- or with links to other references, texts, and rich media.

Blog post about the CLIVE Virtual Safaris posted on Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable blog. The inaugural post to the "SuperSet" Feature on their blog too!