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Another item shared by Chad Kafka...

What do you think??

Wow--interesting perspective on standards, particularly common core. I'd like to see someone take on the author's logic in an article. I agree with many of the author's points, but wonder what someone who has the opposite viewpoint might say to the idea that standards encourage minimum proficiency, therefore minimum effort.

Remember this guy at WEMTA a few years ago? He was good, and I like his rethinking of technology's impact on good teaching. The idea of creating "wonder" as a critical element is important, and is one of those many good teacher skills that would be hard to measure on an evaluation.....

Edheads is a non-profit organization, which creates unique, educational web experiences that are free to teachers, students and parents.

Perhaps a lesson that might be useful in the 6-8 classroom as so many of our students are starting to "facebook" and really have no idea what they are doing. 

Resources from the summit workshop. All the presentations from the Summit are linked to the session schedule. Search strategies w/ Theile, and Google Docs w/Kafka were especially good.

Thanks for sharing this information. It will be especially useful as we migrate towards a Google Apps world in Milton.

Hallelujah!!!!!

Onko tämä salaisuus koulutusjärjestelmän menestys? (Hint: Google Translate)

Interesting blog entry on the challenges of technology adoption by staff. Towards the end the author points out successful adoption techiques. How many times do we forget to remember these things??

Liked this, and found that the prior blogs he linked to in the article gave good examples, particularly the one on SMARTboards back in 2010. I'm hoping the "action research team" example is something we can start to work on with the PLC concept.

this looks cool!

An app for SMART training.Works on iPad and iPhone. 

Related to the hack in the previous post, this one has good ideas.  I'm on a privacy/identity theft kick......

Flash version of Bloom's Taxonomy

Alternative to Wordle--Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurence within the body of text.

They Might Be Giants - Put It to the Test video about the Scientific Method.

Good ideas for using Google Apps!

From Apps in Education Blog..15 Presentation Apps for the iPad that coupled with a VGA adaptor will allow you to present with ease and elegance. Whether in the classroom, the network meeting or even the Boardroom.