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All the sites listed in Kids Love 2Learn.ca are interactive or multimedia sites, selected by teachers and a digital librarian, related to topics in our Alberta curriculum. New sites are added all the time.

Let kids teach the teachers.  A must see TED Talk

A parent shouldn't have to make such choices and schools should do what is necessary to properly prepare kids, if this means learning constantly and taking chances to properly prepare learners then so be it.

I think this article is very relevant to what we are doing with the NEW SLATE proposals. If you are a diigo user feel free to leave comments on the page. Or contribute by using group comments!

Little kids, big potential...video from Kathy Cassidy and her Blogging Buddies. Models what a 21st century classroom might look like.

WEbsite with lots of apps and videos of them

I've been thinking a lot about Least Restrictive Environment quite a bit in terms of internet filtering. If we are truly going to prepare students for college, career, and citizenship, we must be preparing them within as authentic a "real life" learning environment as possible.

Couldn't agree with you more. All the worries (inappropriate, controversial, miss informational sites, etc) are exactly what students will face in the "real life" environment. In fact, they already do. They need to experience this in school as well, as this is the place they will begin to establish a set of values and acquire the skills to discern what information is valuable to them. In our efforts to "protect" students, we are robbing them of these needed skills. I would argue that the Viagra adds during the Super Bowl are just as bad. Let's move away from a fear-based model of filtering to a more pro-active model of educating.

Hey Matt, a very interesting take on access! My argument has been that in locked down environments, kids can't develop ethics or appropriate use habits which are critical in life. You have to allow the possibility of misuse to test whether the ethic is in place, so this skill can't be demonstrated and is not developed in some systems. Nothing like developing internal locus of control.... much like intrinsic motivation.

social studies/geography resource

safe searching

Worth 8 minutes of your time.

This article fails to mention that kids often times have two Facebook accounts: one that parents know about and one that they don't. Monitoring applications may further promote this model.