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Scott McLeod blog discussing technology, leadership and the future of schools. He is also a very passionate speaker who I was lucky enough to get to hear speak at ISLI on Oct 5, 2013

Scott Mcleod has a way of making educators think about their craft!

Kim, I browsed through this blog a little bit to check out some of the posts and they seem awesome! I believe this blog can be an amazing resource for educators and I could use it efficiently in my future classroom for ideas, motivation, and support. I believe this resource is mostly for teachers as it is a blog about the future of our schools with mainly content focused for teachers. I have posted a similar blog, Wesley A. Fryer's, on our class diigo page, you might want to check it out! Thank you for this resource!

Our children and youth are immersed in technologies that give them opportunities no previous generation has enjoyed. How will schools respond?

I believe this is a great resource because it assist in giving students and instructors high quality, low cost alternative solutions to increase their knowledge on a particular subject. This is a factor of self-leadership where the individual makes choices that can increase their ability to engage on topics in the classroom. This is of course only one choice in the plethora of available online learning resources. One alternative is the ROCC or Regional Online Collaborative Courses.

The term 21st century skills refers to a broad set of knowledge, skills, work habits, and character traits that are believed-by educators, school reformers, college professors, employers, and others-to be critically important to success in today's world, particularly in collegiate programs and contemporary careers and workplaces. Generally speaking, 21st century skills can be applied in all … This website inspired me to plan lessons that encourage creativity, curiosity, imagination, personal expression, and innovation. I want my students to be able to process and use information and have adaptable skills in many different areas!!

Educational Reform. Defining 21st century skills. Debate on worth of skills.

A quick little website about the some of the pros and cons of using interactive whiteboards in class and how they worked when researched. 

I think that this may be the content of an article, not a website. Also I question how the results they found have changed, considering that this article was published in 2009. Therefore, I am not sure how relevant the content of this article is, because the technology has undoubtedly changed a lot since it was written. This resource is definitely for teacher use; I think the writers are trying to help teachers see how they can utilize interactive whiteboards more effectively in their classrooms. This article left me questioning what the authors were talking about a little bit: under the "What the Research Found" portion of the article, the authors describe three features "inherent in interactive whiteboards" that have increased student achievement. However, the handheld voting devices and projection of graphics and visuals can be done without an interactive whiteboard. It left me unsure about how useful interactive whiteboards are; I think that if I had my choice of technology in the classroom, an interactive whiteboard would not be high on my list.

This is a great article about personalization in the classroom.