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Yong Zhao's new book in 2012 - "The book is about preparing global, creative, and entrepreneurial talents. It is my attempt to answer a number of pressing questions facing education today. These questions are exemplified by two new stories that have dominated the media recently, one around the Facebook IPO and the other the debt and jobs of college graduate"

Great visual resource created by @tonyvincent, Learning in Hand expert.

Very excited about the potential of this tool! Co-creation of videos anywhere in the world. Can't wait to try it out!

Grade 2 students introduce themselves via video. Such a wonderful glimpse into the class of Leigh Ray in Alaska!

Global Project starting in December for upper elementary/middle school Aaron Maurer - Flat Classroom Certified Teacher

It's on again in 2012! Nominate your favorite and most inspiring Web 2.0 users.

Excellent collaborative work by teachers in the Flat Classroom Certified Teacher 12-1 cohort re designing a handshake for Middle school students using Glogster.

Ed Tech Crew interview Julie Lindsay and talk about teaching and learning in the 21C including all things Flat Classroom

This is an excellent article written by Wikispaces founder, Adam Frey, and James Byers.

"Teacher Preparation for the Global Age: The Imperative for Change, highlights promising practices identified during this meeting and subsequent discussions and suggests a framework for internationalizing the education of all pre-service teachers and increasing the number of world language teachers, especially in less commonly taught languages."

Wesley Fryer created this excellent portal leading to ideas, tools and resources for media in the curriculum. I love this!

This is MUST READ article. Voicethread is an essential tool in the K-12 classroom - at all levels.

About this webmix : Presentation on technology tools to implement in the classroom to support Common Core Standards.

March edition of the ECIS IT blog by John Mikton that has a special feature on mobile computing. Excellent resources for tablet and ipad use in schools.

Duane Robertson has some fantastic examples of how he gets students started on editing their wiki. I love how his second step says "become part of the family." The use of checklists and pointers helps so much in collaboration and helping people get started.

"I wanted to create a post about our current project we are exploring in 6th grade. I am working with a small group of students for a global debate project, Eracism, conducted by Flat Class. We are debating the following topic: "The use of Facebook by students around the world to communicate with one another does more harm than good.""

"Cultural awareness in the context of a global project reaches further than using correct 'netiquette', inclusive language and knowing what time zone your group members are from. At the core of cultural awareness is respecting and embracing cultural difference and valuing the cultural learning taking place." A collection of resources for looking at digital citizenship through the areas of awareness 'cultural'.

A great quad blog on possibilities for teaching and addressing social awareness as it relates to digital citizenship in schools.

The school from Nepal, Lincoln School, has a blog to share experiences during the A Week in the Life Project this semester

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."