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The visuals provided in this post are excellent! "I usually try to explain and emphasize, that these skills are precisely what are being taught. We are not podcasting in order to teach Audacity nor Garageband. We are not recording students for the fun of using microphone, we are not blogging, so we can practice typing, we are not skyping for the purpose of using a webcam."

A grade 7 student's video about her Personal Learning Environment.

A 7th grade student gives a tour of her personal learning environment.

a conceptual model to measure classroom teachers implementation of the tenets of digital-age literacy as manifested in the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). The LoTi Framework focuses on the delicate balance between instruction, assessment, and the effective use of digital tools and resources to promote higher order thinking, engaged student learning, and authentic assessment practices in the classroom

video with Anne Davies demonstrating the research that "technology does enhance modern assessment strategies in fact, becoming part of the learning cycle itself."

TED talks with collections of resources and related links 

"When kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked to talk about education and their future, they gave Peggy Sheehy, the SMS media specialist, an earful. Listen and learn the bits of wisdom that can be gleaned from the students, if we only dare to ask them"

Guys - I really liked this video - I wonder how teachers would react to it?