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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?

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,

The video @ http://www.smith.edu/commencement/2008/index.php is truly worth a watch. A good staff kickoff!

In summary, Wesley states that Smartboard is now requiring installation keys. Previously they had not and it was one reason why folks opted for Smartboard over Promethian. There are rumors that Promethian may not require serial numbers for Promethian downloads, but it does not seem to be the case for the author. He further goes on to say...

Being aware of the importance of template-based teaching with technology, I was delighted to learn this evening that VoiceThread now supports "Copying/Cloning your VoiceThreads."

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.

The following websites are loaded with helpful information that new teachers will appreciate. Valuable for experienced teachers as well.

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.

Join the Apple Learning Interchange Community to connect with your peers and start creating content of your own.

This Blog/Podcast is a place for thoughts, discoveries, links, and tips.

As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.

Teacher effects dwarf school effects: your child is actually better off in a "bad" school with an excellent teacher than in an excellent school with a bad teacher.

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.

8 year-olds learn primarily from positive feedback.

access to what you want when you want it