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Project New Media Literacies (NML), a research initiative based within MIT's Comparative Media Studies program, explores how we might best equip young people with the social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an emergent media landscape and raise public understanding about what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world

Teacher Tv From Good to Outstanding Follow teachers as they try to improve their skills. Will Hana and Rachel get the outstanding rating? Watch uncut footage of their second lessons, then join the discussion group to share your thoughts.

Free courses for teachers on writing and teaching writing

Skills for Success will provide you with hands-on opportunities to explore and discover how to do many things on a computer. You will have a chance to use computers to find information on the Internet as well as use computers to paint and draw pictures, write, solve mathematics problems, and create presentations.

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I worked with Julie Curio a few years ago for MA New Literacies. I think it is so important to start teaching students these new skill to comprehend text and to efficiently search a topic. However, I teach graduate level courses and I do these exercises with teachers and many (regardless of age) do not know these strategies. States need to do more PD to bring administrators and teachers up to par so we can make sure our students are ready for whatever comes their way. Thanks, ~Katy

Reformers have largely worked within, rather than on, the system of education. Working within the system has resulted in status-quo preservation, even when reformists felt they were being radical. Illich failed to account for how educational institutions are integrated into society. Freire spoke with a humanity and hope that was largely overlooked by a comfortable developed world incapable of seeing the structure and impact of its system. To create and nurture change, a message must not only be true for an era, but it must also resonate with the needs, passions, interests, realities, and hopes of the audience to whom the message is directed.

These free online workshops/webinars with great educational topics are always great. Just wish I had more time!

You hear it repeatedly. You can't throw technology into schools without training and support for teachers. If you purchased a truckload of iPads for your school then you better have a plan for developing teachers that are skilled in using them ... but what does it really mean to be "skilled .. What constitutes effective professional development

Lisa Dabbs (M.Ed.) leads the second week of New Teacher Boot Camp.  This week's lesson focuses on VoiceThread, a program to help create interactive slideshows and more.