CFT Resources for Teachers

A social network designed for educators who are interested in integrating social media and Web 2.0 tools into their classes.

A great set of resources regarding the implementation of social media in schools. Not only does it give classroom suggestions, but it heavily focuses on the use of social media for admissions, PR, and development.

Slide show, see if it contains interesting information for helping a school decide the next steps to take.

If you want to participate, go to the website and sign up.

Check out this reference or resource for ideas on professional development

This is an interesting program that just launched - a peer to peer school of ed.

This book is listed as an official publication of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Click here to see their publications. If you have adopted one or more chapters of this book for your class, I would like to know about it! Please use this form to let me know how you are using it. Homepage looks like a good site for resources on important topics in teaching, learning, and technology

Site for resources on pbl and problem-based learning.

Sponsored by the George Lucas Education Foundation, this is a great resource for research as well as case studies of best practices. They have a feature section on Project Based Learning.

Beth: One of my favorite sites, good resources, good blogs, and plenty of good ideas under key educational issues. Bob

EdLeader21 gratefully acknowledges the support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Foundation. Check out this new initiative by Ken Kay on 21st Century schools. A new PLC of educators committed to the idea of creating schools for the future.

Richard Byrne, award winning social studies teacher from Maine, posts 4-5 new resources every day. His blog is an amazing resource for finding tools to use in the classroom.

Thanks for sharing this Beth! Did you get my message about your upcoming visit to Atlanta and trying to get together. Bob

Published Online: September 1, 2011 By Allan Odden and Lawrence O. Picus, Phi Delta Kappan Education budgets are imploding at the fiscal seams. A sluggish economy and falling property values are shortchanging public education budgets across the country. At the same time, there are growing expectations for improved student performance, better teachers and closing the achievement gap. Interesting article about changing the face of schools and teacher performance in the absence of or with declining revenues. A good article to review with some other good resources.

This is a wonderful short piece. Highly creative, interesting. It shows the integration of technology-art. Fascinating!

You will also like this RSA animate version of a talk by Sir Ken Robinson: http://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U

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In addition to providing a search engine of lesson plans and interactives from about a dozen great content partners, there some great professional development resources.

This site was shared with me. Looks really good for art, biology, evolution, chaos, structure and function, shape, etc.

Critical thinking...the awakening of the intellect to the study of itself. Critical thinking is a rich concept that has been developing throughout the past 2500 years. The term "critical thinking" has its roots in the mid-late 20th century. We offer here overlapping definitions, together which form a substantive, transdisciplinary conception of critical thinking. This is a very good site to study the meaning behind the terms. What do we mean by critical thinking? How do we know when students are engaged in it? What are the outcomes of teaching critical thinking?

Tim Brown's article on Design Thinking in the Harvard Business Review. What does the subject of "design thinking" have to contribute to the field of education? A topic of considerable interest to educators.

A site on project-based learning in mathematics.

Good resource for teachers. Worth signing up for an account. Review for ideas, professional development, curriculum, etc.