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Joining their Ivy League counterparts Stanford, Princeton and U.C. Berkley, Harvard and M.I.T. announced a $60 million joint venture to provide classes on line for free. However, these public nonprofit institutions will be in direct competition with private for profit companies like Coursera and Udacity who plan to provide not just classes but entire degree programs on line at greatly reduced prices to students worldwide.

This website has links and descriptions to several very cool, and actually useful sites. It contains nice categorization. A blog that will be updates with new info!

Great finds!

QR codes are everywhere and now, even in the classroom. this is a short but nice list of ideas. I could see using QR codes in a business classroom in many ways, these are just a few.

A great resource for future art teachers! Art tutorials organized by medium. Blogs, Lesson Plan Resources, Virtual Lessons, etc.

It's the next greatest gadget! I'm concerned about the emphasis once again being placed on the price and the tool itself instead of how it is impacting student learning.

This is a great blog of easy-to-implement ideas to integrate technology into the classroom. It covers math, science, english and learning in general. It's really worth a look.

I love the Blooms taxonomy posters! Great ideas in this blog for sure!

This is a great presentation on ways to use different google applications in your classroom. Google provides free applications that are great tools in the classroom. This article gives you real examples of how you can use these tools to fuel learning in your student's daily life.

Great find. We'll be using this next week in class!

Technology is allowing for eductaion to become personilized and competency based. Online tools allow cirriculum to be delivered to the students and at peronalized pace with personal goals and structure. Students are different and I like the idea of allowing students to progress according to their ability.

I like this idea, too. Personalized pacing is key to my own learning.

This article is about a 5th grade classroom School in Texas that uses cell phones. This project was initiated by the teacher and is supported by corporate sponsors. Verizon provides the service; HTC donates the cell phones; and Microsoft Mobile is helping with software issues. I think this teacher is on to something!

Such a smart use of businesses! Impressive. Great article.

This article presented reasons to use technology in the classroom. It also looked at obsticles that schools and teachers run into, as well as a discussion on student achievement . It provided operational goals as well as steps to achieve that goal.

Great article-nice summary

This article is published by Reading Rockets, an organization that helps teach students to read. The article gives an overview of some of the key elements of a warm, supportive, and engaging classroom. The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) grades a room and then encourages teachers to make some changes for student success.

Great Article, Arianna.

This article talked about how useful wireless calculators can be in a math classroom. The software allows the teacher to see what students are doing on their calculator and see if they are actually understanding the material. It also helps keep all students focused on the lesson because they know that the teacher can see if they are on task and can call on them at any time.

Wonderful find! Great example of technology and content merged

This is a great article with various ways to incorporate technology in the art room. It has many creative ideas besides teaching graphic design.

Great find for your content area!

A new study is being conducted to see whether or not use of 3D technology in the classroom enhances the learning experience. The results showed an increase in test scores, attentiveness, and student's ability to recall information. The study was conducted in the UK and involved 740 students age 10-13.

Some day I'll tell my grand-children about seeing my first 3-D movie with "special glasses." Great article.

This video is about using technology for science education. One program is an after school program named Universe Quest that uses game building to teach girls astronomy. Another is a cyber lab that measures cell phone radiation with Geiger counters in Australia. It also includes augmented reality to find out how changing environmental laws might have impacted global warming. Th technology has allowed students to take learning into their own hands and gives them access to equipment that they otherwise would not have.

Love the idea of real life problems and technology. Great find!

"taking advantage of this moment means taking an active interest in the changes that are happening - keeping informed in real-time, via social media and the web, of disruptions, miscommunications, and the opportunities that arise from both"

Seth Godin,STOP STEALING DREAMS, discuss eight things he feels will change as a result of the digital revolution. These include: use of flip school model, evalutaing experience not test scores. precise focused education in place of mass produced curriculum, teacher as coach, 24/7 course access, life long learning and the end of compliance as an outcome. He ends with the question "What is school for?"

Great post and summary, John!

This article explains how a teacher used the game Minecraft to help teach his first and second graders real world lessons. This "virtual lego" world will have students doing team work task that the teacher created before the class, in which they have to work together to solve puzzles. This is a great bridge between student and technology. Students are able to expand on their imagination and creativity to create such amazing worlds and do different tasks.This was a huge success for the teacher and showed an outstanding response.

Love it! :) I don't know if you know the Apple guys at the high school, but they were able to fix a "bug" with all the student computers before Apple even had a fix and they credited their solution to playing Minecraft! :)