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When a teacher writes a lesson plan, does the intellectual property (IP) belong to the teacher, the school, or both? This article discussing the online lesson plan marketplace and the debate over who (teacher, school) gets the proceeds. What do you think?

When a teacher writes a lesson plan, does the intellectual property (IP) belong to the teacher, the school, or both? This article discussing the online lesson plan marketplace and the debate over who (teacher, school) gets the proceeds. What do you think?

Dropping a whole bunch of technology, or the hottest device on the planet into the laps of teachers or kids isn't necessarily a plan for success either. All that seems fairly obvious, but if it is, why do we still see only the simplest of lesson plans for technology, as well as disjointed, fragmented lessons in most classes today?

Interesting stance from the UK, where the government hopes to raise up the importance of computer science in education, where ICT (information and communication technology) lessons are not up to date with the needs and skills of the 21st century. Kids engaged in ICT classes learn how to use software, and not how software works or how it's created. From the article: "Written by gaming guru Ian Livingstone and visual effects veteran Alex Hope, Next Gen called for programming skills to replace learning about business software in ICT lessons." direct link to the UK Government's response to the 'Next Gen' report: http://www.dcms.gov.uk/publications/8646.aspx

Best practices and lessons learned for online learning.

Nice Video of Mr. Salman Khan talking about lessons on demand and teachers as mentors and not delivering a script.

"This case study debunks some of the misconceptions around what happened to edutainment in the '90s, and shares lessons learned from one of the most important periods in the history of games and learning."

A great example of integrating tech into a lesson plan, breaking down steps to create your own TED talk with social bookmarks and dogpile!

Article in Mail Online

This is a site created by Northern Kentucky University. It contains lesson plans and videos for teachers to use to teach about plagiarism, copyright, and fair use. Target audience is middle school and high school classrooms.

Interesting platform for sharing lesson plans and networking for teachers.

Google's move into education continues apace. Lots of content here, but as often happens, no enforcement of a specific pedagogy standard, so caveat emptor.

Lessons learned from Cisco's experience indicate that business-education partnerships should: * Be set up so that all aspects of the project are transparent to outsiders, even if corporations profit from the R&D * Foster experimentation, because it is not always clear in advance which ideas and projects will work best * Establish in-depth training for every new technology, with businesspeople and educators learning from each other

Coursera's "Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application" crashed in its first week. Beyond the obvious irony, there are some interesting lessons to learn here.

This site is a professional development portal in which teachers can upload videos of lessons and get feedback on them.

This is a great post on the importance of digital citizenship lessons in blended classrooms.

This website has digital citizenship lessons for teachers.

related to discussion in section on 9/10 - "takes the most cutting-edge graphics and couples them with some of the most important lessons a student needs" 

Related to section on how iPads are currently being used in a California school. making short videos to taking photos of complex formulas displayed on a blackboard for later review. Language students record themselves reciting lessons, and then upload the files to their teachers' drop boxes for critique. And math teachers use iPads to videotape students working through problems, explaining how they arrived at the solution and thereby demonstrating mastery of a lesson.

Here's the blog from the school's iLab http://hillbrookilab.com/

In Virginia and Pennsylvania, companies opened online, i.e., virstual schools. The schools get Kids don't have to ride yellow bus anymore - learning is solitary, lessons delivered online, and children progress at their own pace. However, while virtual schools continue to expand, their effectiveness is unclear