Great resources from this week EdTechTeacher iPad Summit. (ALL the presentation slides. Total score.)

"Gillispie: At one of our instructional team meetings, I said, "I have an idea. This is what I want to do. I want to target at-risk students at the middle school level, focus on leadership, language arts, digital citizenship and lots of other things that tend to get less emphasis in our everyday classroom. And I want to use this game, WoW." At the conclusion of my spiel, they said, "We really don't understand all this stuff that you are talking about, but we know it's a good idea. Go for it." The principal said, "Yes, please come do this at my school."

You have to sign in to Edutopia to download the PDF, but it's free and its a great resource.

High-Tech parents send their kids to a school that has no technology. On purpose.

5th Graders talk about what class was like before and after their teacher began using Khan Academy...

This is a great resource to check out some ideas of how to assess 21st century skills. (This is in reference to our conversation in the section on Monday.) The rubric on the page (you can download it) uses the following categories as: Expertise (in at least one domain), Inquisitiveness (Exhibition of curiosity, inquisitiveness, wonder, openness and excitement), Flexiblity (and adaptability), Ambiguity (toleration of and response to ambiguity), Unique Ideas (original, unique and cogent ideas, phrasing and products)

When a Dad and his son do a space project together at home for the sheer joy of learning, they accomplish something amazing! (you'll have to watch)

This could be a cool way for teachers to bring monuments into their classroom or manipulate the human body or turn the classroom into the jungle or...