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"ISTE is proud to introduce the white paper, Technology, Coaching, and Community: Power Partners for Improved Professional Development in Primary and Secondary Education."

Great Class shared by Cathy Wolinsky.

Article by Andrew Churches, http://edorigami.edublogs.org/, talking about the benefits of global learning, and gives a great wrap for Flat Classroom. "Our classrooms are not limited to the four walls of the physical building we teach in but can encompass the entirety of the planet. Technology-much of which is free-has enabled us to push back the classroom walls and stretch our virtual arms across the globe to shake hands with classrooms and students almost anywhere."

Tom Whitby shares insights into connected learning - asking if we should be flipping the model and the learners connect to model the benefits for the educators...... He also states: "Major education conferences are including more and more student sessions exploring the possibilities of student connectedness, connected learning, and choices students have in this technology-driven culture." Yes! that is what Flat Classroom conferences and live events do....and more!

This was featured on "Free Technology for Teachers" Blog as a website that requires no registration. You just start blogging and you can make your post public or private.  Could be great for the under 13 group.

Great reflection blog post from Sunny, a teacher in Australia who ventured to the Flat Classroom Conference in Japan! Full of ideas I've headed home - collected my thoughts and hope to put some of the plans we made as teams into action - because flattening our world - connected across the globe to share experience, help each other and learn together is what education should be about. Final presentations and more about the conference can be accessed at http://conference2013.flatclassroomproject.org/home

From Alfred Thompson - former Microsoft Blogger but now CLASSROOM TEACHER. He's one of my go-to people for 21st century skills and I'm glad he's in the classroom again - some kids are very lucky. "Code.org has released their highly anticipated video to encourage more people, especially students, to learn how to code for computers. It's one of the better videos I have seen with a lot of names and faces students will recognize and a few they will not. They may want to learn more about that later BTW. Starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, NBA All-star Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh, Drew Houston, Gabe Newell, Ruchi Sanghvi, Elena Silenok, Vanessa Hurst, and Hadi Partovi. Directed by Lesley Chilcott."

I always love reading Jason Graham's blog - it is rich with shared learning experiences, and about students (he teaches 6 year olds!) connecting, collaborating and co-creating.

It is all very well to provide resources to learn about digital citizenship, but the BEST way for students to learn is to actually be online connecting and collaborating with others globally. This is where the Digiteen Project is SO powerful. It not only uses resources such as this one, but gets students putting expectations into practice. http://digiteen.org

Digital Citizenship Lesson Plan resources on this site

This is a cool website.  Check it out. Turn your PDF files into a book on the web. Thanks to Betsye Sargent who gave me the link.

Student - Led conference in Hong Kong in March of 2012.  Great idea. Wish I was still teaching upperschools.

Announcing my new book project in conjunction with ISTE. Possible contributions and ideas welcome via this online form: goo.gl/TSiio5

My iEARN 2013 Conference Keynote, Doha Qatar, July 4, 2013.

This article resonates with me - it is about learning environments and setting a mindset for opening the doors to global as well as connected learning for all.