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Second edition of Engaging Ideas by John C. Bean

CRAP Test questions for distinguishing between legitimate and less-than-legitimate information C--Currency R--Reliability A--Authority P--Purpose/Point of view

Tagline: Love and Logic (c) provides simple and easy to use techniques to help parents have more fun and less stress while raising responsible kids of all ages. There is a section of the site devoted to classroom solutions for educators.

Sharon Hall recommends, saying "I have personal experience utilizing the concepts with very difficult students over the past 9 years."

Navigating Disparate Pathways to College: Examining the Conditional Effects of Race on Enrollment Decisions by Mark E. Engberg & Gregory C. Wolniak, 2009.

A rubber ducky personal learning network--could this be a model for a personal reflection--knowledge building exercise for IL teachers, students?

Research & Reports page. Available resources include: research reports, tools, newsletters and policy briefs related to education reform and workforce development at local, state and federal levels.

In pre-Jam materials, participants recommended these specific publications: Nodine, T. (2009). Innovations in college readiness: How early colleges are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success. Washington, D.C. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Education & Jobs for the Future and Hoffman, N., & Vargas, J. (2010). A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all.

Great presentation on how to use Adobe Connect for synchronous learning by K-8 students and Encarde, a way to communicate with students and parents and keep them responding to deadlines on projects without using email, that most people read late or not at all. This virtual model could also work for SLI.

Blog on high school economics and 4th grade collaboration on Lawn Boy book that focuses on economic principles that guide a young boy's lawn mowing practice into a money maker. I like that because it takes sophisticated principles and presents them within an interesting story that grabs 4th graders and high school students. Then through a collaboration online between the two age groups, they discuss the book together through a series of Skype interviews/interactions.