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For adding twitter feeds to a blog, this is the place to do it. Ignore all the WP plugins. h/t to Jim Groom

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There are very interesting things here. h/t Dan Meyer

There are very interesting things here. h/t Dan Meyer

I'd make it "learning" rather than "science" but that's on the money. ""To me, that's the beauty of science: to know that you will never know everything, but you never stop wanting to, that when you learn something, for a second you feel crazy smart, and then stupid all over again as new questions come tumbling in. It's an urge that never dies, a game that never ends.""

"Freedom's Ring is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, animated. Here you can compare the written and spoken speech, explore multimedia images, listen to movement activists, and uncover historical context. "

Seems the blank out comic words and fill them with whatever you're reading so that it makes sense would be a pretty decent project for any English class.

""What's the sine of π/2?" I asked my first-ever trigonometry class. "One!" they replied in unison. "We learned that last year." So I skipped ahead, later to realize that they didn't really know what "sine" even meant. They'd simply memorized that fact. To them, math wasn't a process of logical discovery and thoughtful exploration. It was a call-and-response game. Trigonometry was just a collection of non-rhyming lyrics to the lamest sing-along ever. Some things are worth memorizing--addresses, PINs, your parents' birthdays. The sine of π/2 is not among them. It's a fact that matters only insofar as it connects to other ideas. To learn it in isolation is like learning the sentence "Hamlet kills Claudius" without the faintest idea of who either gentleman is--or, for what matter, of what "kill" means. Memorization is a frontage road: It runs parallel to the best parts of learning, never intersecting. It's a detour around all the action, a way of knowing without learning, of answering without understanding."

h/t Dan Meyer via Twitter

We should be creating similar setups for novels with a richer multimedia association and annotated primary texts.

activities based on TPACK

I wonder how doing a generic student's homework for a week might impact teacher/principal views on homework.

"25 Things Influential People Do Better Than Anyone Else"

"Flows of Reading takes this process to the next level. We have created a rich environment designed to encourage close critical engagement not only with Moby-Dick but a range of other texts, including the children's picture book, Flotsam; Harry Potter; Hunger Games; and Lord of the Rings. We want to demonstrate that the book's approach can be applied to many different kinds of texts and may revitalize how we teach a diversity of forms of human expression.  We look at many different adaptions and remixes of Moby-Dick from the films featuring Gregory Peck and Patrick Stewart as Ahab to MC Lar's music video, "Ahab" and Pitts-Wiley's Moby-Dick: Then and Now stage production to works that evoke Moby-Dick less directly, including Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan and Battlestar Galacitca's "Scar." "

It'd be fun to have a computer art class create similar images to capture important moments in history.

There are many strange depths left to plumb where old and new blend.

A great source for colorize historical photos and a really interesting example of people doing hard work out of interest and passion. Portions unsafe.