Content Literacy

Interesting site that compiles explanations via animation and video. Worth considering as an information source. 

In keeping with the natural math movement, inclusion, and hands-on Maria Droujkova does her usual thorough job of developing a wonderful learning event/opportunity.  I encourage you to check out the discussions and add your perspective to the mix. 

Interesting way to generate different looking QR codes, easy to use. 

Great new mapping tool from National Goegraphic. It's in BETA, but already very good tool. 

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Edutopia resources for improving student performance. 

3 tiers of vocabulary from CCS for ELA

What makes TED such an appealing web series and organization is its desire to offer up a little something for everyone. This includes high school students and the teachers who love, hate, or tolerate them. Honestly, pretty much any video hosted there boasts its own educational value, but some hold more relevance than others. Whether they empower and inspire, shine a light on social injustices or simply show off some seriously cool innovations, the following 20 videos are bound to make class time just a little more interesting.

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Nice little article to learn how to use Google Search more effectively. 

Infographic on Google Search Skills. Very informative!

A movable scale that goes from very, very small to universe. A sliding scale that allows you to investigate. 

Example of using commenting with a web page.

Student site for Global Climate Change information from EPA

Interesting article from Britain regarding computational fluency. I don't disagree that being fluent with computation increases a students future capabilities, but there is not necessarily causal effect that 'traditional' approaches to teaching computation make stronger mathematics students. It's the rigorous approach that I think needs to be emphasized. 

Ramsay Musallam's flipped classroom tutorial website. I like his methodology and design. Worth reading. 

Discussion of the idea of the flipped classroom. Doesn't just introduce one approach but a variety of well thought out options, and how some schools are scaling the model. Musallam is worth reading.  I do have concerns that Hooper's videos are 25-30 minutes long in his model. I think he's missing the point as far as chunking information in smaller components and letting students interact with the content.  Not a perfect model but it is an innovation, and both teachers do a much better job of using key vocabulary well, introducing multiple representations intentionally and connected, and providing guides for students. Much better than I think Khan does in his videos. 

Compilation of articles about how people think and construct meaning. A nice collection if looking to start creating support for rational why you want to do something and want some research/support. 

Nice description of one way of developing an online/blended course model. I applaud Stacey's choice to do it, tweak later, rather than postpone doing it because it's "not 100% ready". 

Jeb Bush, Melinda Gates, Sal Khan and the Coming Digital Learning Battle