Group items tagged

Full report in pdf.

"Innovative Teaching Tool With ThingLink's easy-to-use editor, teachers can create immersive and engaging experiences by adding tags to any image in a few minutes: Create authentic, valuable, and rich interactive stories around historical events using media (video, sound, photos, written words, etc.) found online. Annotate graphs and timelines. Record an instructional message to students inside an image. Embed interactive images into student blogs. Enable students to curate content inside an image to demonstrate understanding of a topic."

" Ready by 21 is the Forum's signature initiative based on decades of experience working with state and local leaders. It is a set of innovative strategies that helps communities and states improve the odds that all children and youth will be ready for college, work and life. Ready by 21 provides clear standards to achieve collective impact, tools and solutions to help leaders make progress, and ways to measure and track success along the way. Specifically, Ready by 21 helps leaders build broader partnerships, set bigger goals, collect and use better data, and take bolder actions. A growing number of communities and states are using these strategies to change the way they do business."

From the author: "another list of  some equally important digital skills that you, as a teacher, need to seriously consider if you want to pave the way for the 21st century teaching. I have added a list of web tools under each skill for teachers to better exploit it."

"The purpose of this resource is to provide "Just in Time" training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). "

ACOT2 has identified six design principles for the 21st century high school.

English teaching ideas with 21st Century Skills -- NCTE collaboration

Here are a few interview questions and sample responses for schools that are "technology focused."

This wiki houses a collection of resources to help presenters and change agents as they help move schools and universities forward into the 21st century.

The Moving Forward wiki houses a collection of resources to help presenters and change agents as they help move schools and universities forward into the 21st century. If you have a resource to add, please do so!

Here's the second of the Will R posts that are linked to the Diane Ravitch post.

In light of the interesting back and forth that occurred on my last post, I've been thinking about what the fundamental lessons of schooling ought to be and the role of technology in helping us teach them.