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On page 9 of our text, Principal Dave Meister was quoted as saying, "In the typical classroom, the pedagogies of years gone by are still the status quo. In this typical classroom, the average student is unengaged and bored. In my opinion, schools had better catch up or become irrelevant." I linked to a NYTimes blog that summarized a 93-page study by the U.S. Dept. of Education. Although most of the chapter talked in general references to Web 2.0 tools, I thought the quote also applied well to online courses. We really need to rethink our pedagogical approaches for the Net Generation (Millennials). I also liked Prensky's lament about students needing to "power down" when they go to school. (pg 28 of text)

Great place to find worthy blogs to read, review and follow.

Here is a great FREE resource for teachers - Google for Teachers...Books, Docs, Maps and more

My favorite blog...

This is wonderful! The comments and discussions on the potential irrelevancy/radical change of current information based professions is both chilling and exciting!

A free tool that allows teachers to publish emails in one spot (ie newsletter), post links and files for students and parents, and have students hand in assignments. Free up to 100mb, and you can create as many drops as you like, so you can have one for news, one for files,one for that special unit you are teaching, etc. At the least it is a quick way to share files too large to pass via email

Found this in the latest issue of Educational Leadership. Also found several posts at the "Free Tech 4 Teachers" Blog. Looks very handy and EASY to use.

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Practical uses of technology for the classroom setting.

MIght be of interest to all content areas!

This has 20+ tech tools and how to use them in practical ways. Very useful!

Here's one of my favorite EdEtch blogs. Right now Wesley Fryer, the author, is collecting 6 word stories that communicate the essence of 21st century learning. He also shares some interesting links and tells us about the K-12Online Conference...

a fantastic website -effective tool for integrating tech

a fantastic website for integrating tech

Targets educators. Won 2008 edublog for best resource sharing blog.

The article contains a Matrix for E-Moderators.

Using Web 2.0 Teaching tools requires educators to engage, join, and write with students. In addition, it requires individualization, collaboration, and personalization. It is far removed fro the drill, kill, test, and lecture.

These are examples of "green" cities that have or are building sustainable energy plans. For science, note that most of them are arctic or sub-arctic cities. They offer diverse combinations of approaches to clean sustainability, using resources at hand. Ref.: ISTE student standards 1, 4, and 5. It is great that the new standards recognize the live-or-die mission of today's students. E.g.: Within their global digital networking environment------- they must enact citizenship that will make a planetary environment that is friendly to human survival (and the survival of many other species, too). This web site shows cities all over the northern hemisphere. Students can actually blog, facebook, or wiki or whatever with other kids in those same cities. Think of the science, economic, and social studies possibilities! Plus you could use Google Earth, a photo sharing site, and whatever (Picassa?) program that San Antonio lesson used to make a virtual tour of these star green cities. And of course you would apply all of that to mega projects here in Anchorage. A student network of kids in all those cities could grow into a network of future engineers, designers, and policy makers whose influence could go viral. Voila--civilization saved!

Laptop vs. Paper Pencil Competitiion

This is a very interesting comparison between students that are being exposed to the older conventional teaching practices to students that are being exposed to 21st Century teaching. As discussed in our Leading 21st Century Schools book in Chapter 2. Talented teachers are needed, but they're students miss out if they are not using technology. It really sums it up in a quick blog posting. Very powerful.

This is actually an amazing video on YouTube, but hard to access from our computers. I want you to try to watch it if you can. The video is called Social Media Revolution (Socialnomics09), and it's amazing! Check out this link for a few of the statistic highlights.

I've seen this on YouTube. I tried to put it on our Ideas2Intentionites but couldn't figure it out. The comments with the video ask where the data is taken from. It definitely makes you think!

On page 56, Schrum talks about the explosion of Web 2.0 tools. Here's one more interesting one.