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Online learning styles assessments. Instructors can set up so students can take it without email registration, allowing them to see trends within a class of students to adjust teaching approaches that may be more appropriate for that group.

I will be skyping into this free webinar hosted by Scholastic with David Rowe, Chief Scientist of Cognition and Learning at the Center for Applied Special Technology. Join us. April 21, 2010 - 3:30 pm EDT - free!

Dan Meyer's TEDxNYED session about teaching math. Very thought provoking for any level of math teacher.

I have only briefly trialled it but user interface is very bog standard education document look and feel. I reckon it's for administrators not students? Maybe try Buddypress or Elgg?

A long list of short n juicy professional development online courses to jump into next few months

I'd like to share the beautiful true story about Mark Eklund, which was written by Sister Helen Mrosla. I'm betting it's one you won't forget! "...Then I told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down..."

In this Schools that Work story, we profiled a rural school district in Northwest Georgia using their resources carefully to replicated successful Project-Based Learning. 

Links, research and readings on constructivism

David, back up your argument. If you think this is junk science, then be a real scientist and substantiate your claim. I'm a very objective thinker and will listen and gladly debate this with you, but having studied this and used it, I'm skeptical of your dissent. It is the only thing that has gotten me through our failed education system, not the reason the system has failed (unless your argument is that our system is failing due to lack of use of constructivist approaches).

Constructivism is a prime example of the dangers of deductive reasoning. Instead of starting with evidence from observed reality which the scientific method dictates (inductive reasoning) constructivism starts with theories and then makes the evidence fit the theory or else dismisses it and rationalises it away. It's the same type of thinking that has gotten all ideologues into trouble throughout history, whether it's the Spanish Inquisition, the Nazis, the hippies or the recent Wall Street bankers who drove our economy off a cliff. Any true system of thought must start with the real world as its beginning, or else it's just a bunch of people making stuff up and then defending it despite all evidence to the contrary until the weight of truth destroys them and usually the institutions they've taken over.

random writing prompts k-6

LearnCentral is another project from Steve Hargadon. Join teachers from across the globe and learn along with them.

A very good example of how Learning Management Systems such as Moodle can be used to enable teachers to create their own online 'textbooks'. How cool!

1st day of school

Great article with many things people should know.

Cool article that covers a lot of things that people should know - whether you mind being called a geek or not. Very interesting reading.