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"Used wisely, technology empowers students to take responsibility for their own learning. In Leonardo's Laptop, Ben Shneiderman provides teachers with a powerful framework, Collect-Relate-Create-Donate (CRCD), for designing student-centered learning opportunities using computers."

"Online Teacher Development Works Best - 15 Reasons Why I've started this article with quite a bold statement, but it's a conclusion that I have been coming too over the course of quite a few years now. I should really put this into context though, as most of the teacher training I do deals with pedagogical training for the use of technology and is most often delivered during intensive face to face sessions, usually with groups of teachers working in a computer lab. Though, having said that, I do still believe that many of the reasons I have listed below do also apply to other kinds of more 'mainstream' teacher development too, especially intensive courses. So, here are my 15 reasons why I think developing your teaching online can be more effective. Learn while you teach - This gives you the opportunity to try things out with your own classes working in your own environment with your own students. Often when we take a face to face intensive course we leave our familiar teaching environment and come back with lots of new ideas only to find that in our everyday reality many of them don't work or create unforeseen problems that we don't know how to deal with. Studying while we teach can give us the time to try out new ideas in our own work place, discover the obstacles and try to adapt them to our own context. Non competitive - Face to face courses can often become quite competitive and tend to favour people who are more confident and extrovert and who like to shine. This can often lead to the quieter more reflective types being overshadowed and not having the opportunity to contribute what may well be valuable comment or ask the questions for which they need answers. The text based and asynchronous nature of online training makes it much easier for everyone to have their say and can lead to a much richer and more collaborative learning experience. Work at your own computer -

This web site allows to explore the difference between wants, needs, and rights involving lessons for ages 8-10

This web site allows to explore the difference between wants, needs, and rights involving lessons for ages 8-10. This is a topic to be included in teacher training courses.

Rights are what a person is born with. The right to breath oxygen. The right to move in a big space, the right to learn new things, the right to imagine and believe anything that they wilfully want to believe without anybody else knowing (silent thinking)-nature already gives you all the answers-etc..

This is an excellent website and organization that is dedicated to sharing information regarding human rights abuses. They are a non profit and have been in existence for decades. I appreciate this site and their work because they provide a lot of grassroots style information and networking. They clearly have a lot of boots on the ground and they seem to know how the human rights abuses are specifically impacting groups of people. This is a great resource for anyone wanting to learn more about a variety of human rights topics. I think the multimedia sections will engage students above and beyond any article or news story.

This is a good site to be updated for different issues related with human rights problem in the entire world. this site can be used to teach different problems of the world and then to express how to relate the problems.

In my neck of the woods schools have already started or will be starting soon. As we are going back and thinking of new tools to try or sites to explore I wanted to give you a few ideas of each that you may find have a place in your classroom this year.

This might be really helpful for teachers who want to use games (online or offline) as a an educational tool