Finland is getting rid of their subject areas in K-12...it seems that tapping into the way in which youth already use technology to facilitate their own learning goals would be a good first step for teachers. Any schools using competency based assessments for fully personalized learning absent of subject matter classes?

This is very helpful for understanding how big data fits into our current reality.

I used to promote teaching K-8 computational thinking and coding because of the social justice issues around access to the language of power, economic opportunities, and a belief that learning CT enhances overall academic competencies for those likely to be challenged to succeed in schools.. Now I'm an advocate for a different set of reasons that seem more preeminent. We need everyone to learn computational thinking because ethics and protecting the right to spirituality/secular humanist values seem to be what computers won't be able to do better than humans. Therefore we better have humans who are ethically grounded, informed by the humanities, and competent to understand the implications of the computer software we create. This is a great watch list or podcast list to spur considerations of this urgent matter of the unregulated world of AI.

Wonderful collection of short profiles of women working in STEM or CTE fields. Share with your students because female role models inspire girls to see their futures differently.

Disciplinary literacy for Social Studies and Common Core. Organized with webinars, resources, information. College, Career and Civic life standards -- state social studies translation of national standards translation to classroom context.

Years ago the Hilton Foundation gave St. Catherine University money to support outreach around the Sisters, broadly construed. Why? Because in their research on ROI, they found that money given to Sisters to do good in the world yielded the largest returns. Sisters have a history of maximizing benefits. In our practice at St. Kate's we, with a faculty of varying faiths and identities, channel the Sisters' practices of hospitality, generosity, the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and treating our dear neighbors as ourselves to serve the greater good in our work with students and the community. Unity around this shared purpose is what makes working and learning here uniquely wonderful. Anyway, if you are a lover of podcasts, good stories, history, or community you might consider the series shared here. A suitable addition to National Women's History Month as well as National Catholic Sisters Week in March.

A lengthy but worthy read for all non-programmers on code.

Similar to Sophia. A repository of free digital content designed by/for teachers in small or book size chunks.

Please help share this opportunity for kids aged 11-17 to enter a film contest that will help me launch In the Director's Chair--a company teaching film history as well as film techniques within the context of current core content standards. Wish me luck!

Compendium of resources on targeted strategies/programs for meeting the needs of all students at the University of MN.

Claims for this font are unsubstantiated, but it would make sense that some fonts are easier to read than others. I taught for several years before learning the trick that if you added a space between every four lines in a list children could get through the list much more quickly.

How will schools evolve in relation to the disruptive change inspired by expansive availability of informal learning networks? This blog post shares some considerations around the maker space movement.

Somehow I haven't been aware of the Edge before. Seems sort of like a space for a text version of TED Talks. From Daniel Hillis's piece answering the question of 2011: "How has the Internet changed the way you think?" "We have linked our destinies, not only among ourselves across the globe, but with our technology. If the theme of the Enlightenment was independence, our own theme is interdependence. We are now all connected, humans and machines. Welcome to the dawn of the Entanglement."

Disturbing data on our lack of preparedness for current economy...from mcKinsey.

Useful source of aerial photos.

Updated version of Karl Fisch Did you know? video.

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