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Creative Educator focuses on using technology tools to foster creativity and engage students in the curriculum. Published by Tech4Learning, Creative Educator features articles on project-based learning, creativity, classroom management, and more from authors with a range of experience in educational technology.

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills recently released a new report, 21st Century Skills, Education & Competitiveness, which investigates the links between strong, viable economies and 21st century education systems. Creating a 21st century education system that prepares students, workers, and citizens to triumph in the global skills race is the central economic competitiveness issue currently facing the United States.

Thought you all might be interested in this-(about 45mins long). Could be a nice kickoff with staff on where we are going or want to go with technology. Keynote from "The Digital Education Revolution", Adelaide, Monday 2 June 2008. All about kids, hyperconnectivity, and the gap between how the kids communicate today and how we try to educate them in the classroom. Those Wacky Kids http://www.viddler.com/explore/mpesce/videos/14/ The text for "Those Wacky Kids" is also available at http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=56 His key end points are-- as educators we need to help learners Focus and How to Control hyperconnectivity focus while incorporating hyperconnectivity Use the laptop ethically and responsibly (not as a loaded weapon) (as in teachers) have mastery in a domain of IT SHARe to increase our effectiveness They (students) have the tools but we have the wisdom BTW-has anyone used Viddler before?

PBS TeacherLine and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) have teamed up to create the PBS TeacherLine/ISTE Certificate of Proficiency Capstone Program. Enroll in this online professional development learning experience to: * Demonstrate your knowledge of the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards. * Collaborate with other educators who are leaders in technology integration. * Earn a certificate of proficiency in the ISTE NETS*T.

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Good overview of wikis in education

This series, called, "Copyright for Educators," is designed to help educators learn about Fair Use and what they can and can't do within the category of, "Teaching" in the Copyright Act.

Free and Open Source Software in K - 12 Education

The goal of the online community, said IB Director General Jeffrey Beard, is to "create the ideal community and technology platform for ensuring that students and educators at IB World Schools can safely communicate, collaborate and learn with their peers regardless of geographic, cultural or language differences.

Would you teach your students to read without teaching them to write? Probably not. Educators know that linking these two pieces together makes for a more complete learning experience. Transferring this knowledge into the world of online search, does it make sense to teach students to search without teaching them what's involved in creating and managing a search engine?

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Welcome to Edublogs.tv - the video hosting site dedicated to education

In the new global economy, with many jobs being either automated or "off-shored," what skills will students need to build successful careers? What skills will they need to be good citizens? Are these two education goals in conflict?

Teachers can make better use of data when they work together than when they go it alone. But creating the conditions for such collaboration is a tall order.

Integrating Promethean's ActivClassroom--a suite of educational technologies that includes an interactive whiteboard, teaching software, and student response systems--into instruction can raise student achievement by an average of 17 percentile points,

comprehensive collection of VoiceThread examples from students and teachers of all ages and groups.

This is an update to Bloom's revised taxonomy to account for the new behaviours emerging as technology advances and becomes more ubiquitous. Bloom's revised taxonomy accounts for many of the traditional classroom practices, behaviours and actions but does not account for the new processes and actions associated with web 2.0 technologies and increasing ubiquitous computing.