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Dan Brooks

From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning - 1 views

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    Blog about great ways to use cell phones as a tool for teaching and learning.
Dan Brooks

Google Notebooks changing the way Astoria High students learn | OregonLive.com - 0 views

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    Google Notebooks changing the way Astoria High students learn. Quote: All computing on the notebooks is done on the Internet. Documents, applications and settings are stored on "clouds," and can be accessed from any Chrome Notebook.  "You can't download anything, so you will never have a virus," Scott Holmstedt  Astoria High School technology director. "And every time I open it up, it will be as fast as the first time I opened it up."
Dan Brooks

Education Week: E-Learning Opens Doors for Gifted Students - 0 views

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    Jeffco has one of the most successful and nationally recognized online schools: Jeffco's 21st Century Virtual Academy.  This article highlights the benefits of online learning for certain students, especially GT.
Dan Brooks

Lancaster City School students learning through kid-friendly e-mail program | Lancaster... - 0 views

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    Interesting story.  DPS uses Gaggle.  I think Google could do all of these things - if we turned on gmail in the Jeffco domain.
Dan Brooks

Lady Gaga and The Future Implications of Connectivity > The Future of Teaching - 0 views

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    What can we learn from Lady Gaga about engaging and inspiring students?
Dan Brooks

Turning the Classroom Upside Down - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Turning the Classroom Upside Down Why not have lectures at home and 'homework' at school-and let students learn at their own pace?
Dan Brooks

Siphoning the Fumes of Teen Culture: How to Co-opt Students' Favorite Social Media Tool... - 1 views

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     10 tips for using social media in the classroomTeachers should use social media in classroom lessons, and banning such tools will stifle learning and lead students to question teachers' relevance, university English professor Todd Finley writes in this blog post. Finley provides 10 guidelines for incorporating social media tools in the classroom. He offers several resources and suggests that teachers: create social media rules that are directive, but unrestricted; draw a distinction between academic and informal writing; and promote constructive online discussions. Edutopia.org/Todd Finley's blog 
Dan Brooks

Using Google Docs to Create Digital Kits for Student Projects - The Tempered Radical - 0 views

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    Using Google Docs to Create Digital Kits for Student Projects
Dan Brooks

Education Week: Videos: Unleashing Technology to Personalize Learning - 0 views

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    short videos from ed tech leaders on Edweek
Kathy Mitchell

Matthew Allen » Blog Archive » Should you use a wiki for teaching (and which ... - 0 views

  • advice about wikis, especially in the face of his university’s (inevitable) suspicion about anything that is not authorised, locked-down, served from the campus and generally (IMO) unusable for agile teaching and learning.
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    From an Aussie, but his concept "agile teaching" is interesting in light of our discussion about using web2.0 tools in teaching.
Dan Brooks

Let Kids Rule the School - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Let Kids Rule the School By SUSAN ENGEL Published: March 14, 2011
Dan Brooks

2011 Horizon Report | NMC - 0 views

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    The yearly Horizon Report documents key trends in technology that have an impact on education.  Last year, it highlighted Cloud-based computing and Collaborative environments as the most immediate trends.  This year it focuses on Electronic Books and Mobile Devices. good geeky reading!
Dan Brooks

21 Things about 21 Things: Lessons Learned from Staff Development - 0 views

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    Session from ISTE 2010 with good ideas about delivering PD
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