Keep It Real - Engaging Instruction

"The Math Video Challenge is an innovative program that empowers students to be math teachers, video producers, actors and artists - all at the same time! Working together in teams, students will create their own videos about math problems and their associated concepts."

International Dot Day, a global celebration of creativity, courage and collaboration

Kindergarten through Fifth Grade classrooms connect with classrooms around the world through The Global Read Aloud Project. Participating classrooms read the same book aloud to their classes during the month of September. Then the classes share projects they create or responses that they write or whatever work they do with the rest of the participants on a shared wiki space.

Find resources to help you implement project-based learning, social and emotional learning, comprehensive assessment, teacher development, integrated studies, and technology integration.

Many look at SAMR as the stages of technology integration.  Jackie Gerstein proposes that it should be a model for educators to focus on Modification and Redefinition areas of technology integration. 

A visual description of how one iPad in a classroom can provide whole class access to shared videos and notes.

Backchannels give students a voice. They create a blended environment where teachers and students engage in both physical and online conversations so that learning is no longer confined to a single means of communication or even an arbitrary class period. Backchannels don't replace class discussions -- they extend them.

"Many schools fail to setup good support networks or provide the sensible PD that's required to use them effectively." Richard Wells This blog discusses simple sensible steps to using the iPad in your school and its obvious effect in delivering 21st Century, student-centered learning.

According to Indiana University Bloomington, Inquiry-based learning is an "instructional model that centers learning on a solving a particular problem or answering a central question. "

Kerry Gallagher describes and explains her infographic activity.

Project Based Learning's professional development and teacher resource site

Rebekah Madrid's final assessment for a grade 8 development unit is an infographic answering the unit question "What is progress?"

Think about the tools that you had available when you were the same age as your students, and now imagine what may be possible when they are our age! How will we prepare our students for what has yet to even be imagined? What if, instead of focusing on the current tools of the mobile classroom, we hone in on skills -- the same ones that we've actually been teaching all along?