Living and Learning in a Cynical World-The "Conan Challenge." How do we help our students to learn to engage in serious discourse pertatining to complex issues in a world where winning the argument is everything?

Interesting article in the NY Times about online language learning resources. Some are free. Some include online communities that use VoIP to allow learners to converse with native speakers.

New Akron, Ohio Middle School focusing on STEM education.

New Middle School in Akron, Ohio that focuses on STEM education and uses an interdisciplinary, project-based model of learning.

This is an important report for us to consider when rolling out New Worlds. It provides support for using a service restricted to PAIUnet.

Goggle is Crowd Sourcing building a model of every building in the world. Includes aerial photos of the buildings and a modeling tool called Google Building Maker.

Washington Post article discussing the release of the Common Core Standards being released in draft form. Contains a link to the standards and a site for collecting feedback.

I would highly recommend this. I got the link from a Twitter post by Peggy Sheehy.

Presentation regarding some of the misconceptions that educators have regarding how students perceive and use technology.