Cohort 21 Shared Resources

Allow Google to search key terms in books...lots of books, to help draw connections from events into popular culture! Just select two different terms, and see how they correlate throughout history

Sugata Mitra...again! A great summary of where education came from and where it came. "A global computer made up of people" to the Internet, a more democratic form of the bureaucratic administrative machine, to how we, at Cohort 21 are envisioning the future...

Excellent talk.

Do credits = hours?

This is a great tool, much like Understoodit.com, that allows for interaction within the classroom. This tool is a little more versatile at this point. It is free!

This is a great link to solve a common Youtube issue as a teacher... Youtube made friendly!  It allows you to hyperlink to a precise time in a YouTube video...awesome!

"Sometimes we assume our child knows what the family standard is for laptop or computer use, but we find it extremely helpful when families explicitly talk things through so there are no misunderstandings. Pre-established limit setting and boundaries are still necessary with students today. We encourage parents to start these conversations early, so they can set the right expectations of behavior with their students, before the device reaches home. We recommend beginning over the summer and continuing the conversation throughout the school year. A written agreement posted near the computer helps your student refer back to it when he or she has a question or forgets. We highly recommend that families have these agreements between parents and students in place before school laptops come home, and to share the information with any caregivers. It is never too late to start this process."

This is a great resource for tweeting effectively...

January 26th Notes

What do grades mean today for students? A student tells us!

Tonnes of resources for teacher languages

Great links to journals/resources for personalized learning. 

Great video on 21st Century Learning, critical thinking, problem solving, differentiation

Motivation is key to success learning mathematics.

Understanding YouTube and Digital Citizenship - 10 Lessons

"Taking a cue from The Scarlet Letter, the website Jezebel compiled racially insensitive tweets directed toward President Obama by high school students across the country, naming names and even calling the students' schools. The tweets - posted by students under their real identities - covered the full range of bigotry, from racial epithets to basketball stereotypes, with the N-word in abundance. In response, Giga OMasked, "When does shaming racist kids turn into online bullying?" The answer to that is never. It would be a mistake to mischaracterize the denunciation of racially offensive speech as abusive. To the contrary, that give-and-take (or more precisely "say something deeply offensive and get verbally pummeled") is what free speech in America is all about. That's the flaw in virtually every strategy to keep students in both high school and college on the social media straight and narrow. High school is all about preparing the next generation for citizenship. We teach them civics, history, a smattering of math and science and hand them a diploma. But we too often also try to control their every move. That's literally the case with the news last week that a sophomore at John Jay High School in San Antonio was expelled after refusing to carry an ID with a computer chip designed to track the movements of every student in the school."

A template to have students share and hand in work to you through google docs by dumping it into various folders that they have connected to their google drive folder.

Many examples of info graphics for students to use and understand the different ways that information and data can be presented.