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ISTE Learning is an anytime, anywhere online community for professional development where educators can sample free concepts, buy cool resources and exchange creative ideas. This space provides relevant learning experiences in multiple formats to strengthen the teaching experience and grow digital literacy.

"What Is ISTE Learning? ISTE Learning is an anytime, anywhere online community for professional development where educators can sample free concepts, buy cool resources and exchange creative ideas. This space provides relevant learning experiences in multiple formats to strengthen the teaching experience and grow digital literacy. ISTE Learning's Mission The mission of ISTE Learning is to provide robust leadership, learning and teaching opportunities that are grounded in the NETS to support educators in effectively implementing technology into their learning environments."

"The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below."

"The mission of School of One is to provide students with personalized, effective, and dynamic classroom instruction so that teachers have more time to focus on the quality of their instruction. To achieve this mission, School of One re-imagines the traditional classroom model. Instead of one teacher and 25-30 students in a classroom, each student participates in multiple instructional modalities, including a combination of teacher-led instruction, one-on-one tutoring, independent learning, and work with virtual tutors. To organize this type of learning, each student receives a unique daily schedule based on his or her academic strengths and needs. As a result, students within the same school or even the same classroom can receive profoundly different instruction as each student's schedule is tailored to the skills they need and the ways they best learn. Teachers acquire data about student achievement each day and then adapt their live instructional lessons accordingly. By leveraging technology to play a more essential role in planning instruction, teachers have more time to focus on doing what they do best - delivering quality instruction and insuring that all students learn."

With an understanding of spatial thinking, educators can learn to use geographic tools to develop research, writing, and presentation in the classroom. Requires Google Earth and ESRI ArcExplorer.

"In the same way that a garden is a rich and intertwined ecosystem where plants, air, soil, birds and bugs interact to grow and reproduce, today's emerging information landscape is an info-system, where content is produced, published, accessed, consumed, discussed, re-mixed and re-published. To be a "master learner" -- to be a teacher -- today, you must learn to work the info-system in order to cultivate new knowledge and skills from a continual flow of information. This book is a guide for teachers who seek to model for their students the practices of lifelong learning. "

Web site of Gwyneth Jones, co-presenter with Joyce Valenza. (SIGMS Forum: Media Specialists SIG Learning Tools Smackdown)

The founder of the site, Brad Shepherd Jr., has been creating educational software since 1982, and it shows. Along with the rest of his team, he creates engaging, highly interactive, original and fun programs for learning about a huge range of subjects. As a commercial company, they are in business to sell products, but make this treasure trove of resources available for free.

Scott MacLeod describes the future of learning and what skills students must have in the 21st century.

One of the hottest sessions at ISTE 2010 this year was the annual free tools smack-down hosted by SIGMS. This site lists some of the free tools that were particularly interesting. You can also find the video for the smackdown session here: http://www.istevision.org/viewsession.php?id=149

Explore how educational games on interactive whiteboards can enhance your students' engagement and learning.

Is technology really making a difference for student learning? See how technology is affecting student performance for the Technology Rich Classroom Program in Kansas.

Grades 6-12. In this BYOL session with Rod Hames, teachers learned how to involve, and support students in engaging and powerful thinking generated by a project featuring blogs, collaboration, mathematics, literacy, and competition.

"At Google, we support the education of families on how to stay safe online. That's why we've teamed up with online safety organization iKeepSafe to develop curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible online citizen. The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. On this site you'll find a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation. "

Global SchoolNet's Projects Registry (PR) is the oldest (1995) and largest online clearinghouse for teacher-conducted global learning projects. The PR contains more than 3,000 annotated listings - and is searchable by date, age level, geographic location, collaboration type, technology tools or keyword. The PR is a central place for educators to find global partners and announce projects.

Free teaching and learning resources from the Federal Government. Divided by subject area. Includes external links, animations, primary documents and photos.

Pump Up Your Web Presence and develop your personal learning networks. Tools for getting started.

Chris Lehmann's inspirational speech on the need for schools to change, embrace technology and encourage independent learning.

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