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"This Classroom Learning 2.0 blog has been set-up as part of the CSLA School Library Learning 2.0 program to encourage all of us to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today."

This is a really organized blog set up for learning about 2.0. Please share with anyone you think might be interested.

"Beyond educational computing and technology foundations for teachers, ISTE has established Technology Facilitation Standards for teacher education programs or professional development that prepare candidates to serve as building/campus-level technology facilitators. Candidates completing this program will exhibit knowledge, skills, and dispositions equipping them to teach technology applications; demonstrate effective use of technology to support student learning of content; and provide professional development, mentoring, and basic technical assistance for other teachers."

Shared by @altapp on another list. She got it from @kjaretts on twitter. See what a PLN can do for you?

"Mr. Kohn talks about his book, The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards", published by Houghton Mifflin. The book challenges the current state of education, and proposes multi-age, interdisciplinary classrooms. After his remarks he answered questions from the audience. "

THis was shared on Twitter this AM. It's an 80 minute video but worth a listen if you get a chance.

Note the date of this recording!

A great website for IWB resources that you can use in your classroom. Group selector, student selector, Find Ten, Word Magnets, etc

INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.\n\nINFOMINE is librarian built. Librarians from the University of California, Wake Forest University, California State University, the University of Detroit - Mercy, and other universities and colleges have contributed to building INFOMINE.

BE SURE TO CLICK ON link at the bottom labeled other search tools...http://infomine.ucr.edu/guides/ WOWIE... Can search all the search engines, metacrawlers, white&yellowpages ETC.... AND the SUBJECT tab brings you to a screen http://infomine.ucr.edu/guides/subject.shtml that searched some of my favorite vetted web indexes including the Librarian's Internet Index! Great find - Show parent | Edit | Split | Delete | Reply

Has anyone tried this yet? Looks very interesting.

We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World. Log in to the Khan Academy web application for user-paced practice and instruction

WOW, self pace lessons accompanied by the Khan Academy videos. Works with Google Apps and teachers can become "coaches" for the students to run reports on their progress totally free. Looks like it will grow in math and then to science, just a guess b/c of the Google Sky use. Please check this out especially if you have Google Apps in your district.

"I often get asked how I managed to integrate technology into my classroom before I was a technology teacher teaching in a lab (with every child on a computer). I must preface this post with: I am not an expert. I taught second grade for one year and had two computers in my classroom and no computer lab for the school. I used what I had and found a system that worked for me. With that in mind here is how I made my 2 computer classroom work"

Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office is now available to all users worldwide, letting two or more people work together on the same file at the same time in Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 or 2010 on Windows PCs.

A quick video about how you can use your Google Docs account to sync your Microsoft Office applications without ever leaving MS Office.

More on visualizing data

a MUST SEE!

Seriously. If you're a Facebook user you need to check this out. Yes, it's eye candy, but VERY cool!

But the No. 1 challenge in ed tech, according to the report, is with teachers themselves and the inadequacy of their preparation and ongoing training.

But the No. 1 challenge in ed tech, according to the report, is with teachers themselves and the inadequacy of their preparation and ongoing training.

But the No. 1 challenge in ed tech, according to the report, is with teachers themselves and the inadequacy of their preparation and ongoing training.

In the fourth slot was nothing short of the "fundamental structure of the K-12 education establishment," specifically, as the authors described it, "resistance to any profound change in practice."

In the fourth slot was nothing short of the "fundamental structure of the K-12 education establishment," specifically, as the authors described it, "resistance to any profound change in practice."

In the fourth slot was nothing short of the "fundamental structure of the K-12 education establishment," specifically, as the authors described it, "resistance to any profound change in practice."

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"Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control."

Share this with you math teachers and with your Economics teachers