Oswego County 21st Century Leaders

Are you ready for new Kidlink adventures? Kidlink Projects increase your students' life-skills and help children get friends,build social networks and get peers around the world. Let your students experience the communication tools inside of Kidlink! 

So by 2020, uses of technologies will change some aspects of teaching and learning but schools and classrooms will be clearly recognizable to students' parents and grandparents. Online instruction will continue to expand incrementally but will still be peripheral to regular K-16 schooling. End of prediction.

A Publication of the 3C Collaborative: This manual presents materials through which teachers/counselors in all subjects can help students define and understand the skills they will need in their careers, post-secondary education and as citizens. It begins with an overview of 38 skills grouped into ten categories, followed by a Student Skills Assessment of the 38 skills that teachers/counselors can introduce at any stage in a high school student's program. This is followed by guidelines for teacher/counselors evaluations of the Student Skills compact lessons for each skill and includes a plan for which students can use to practice and continue to assess their development of each skill.

An awesome resource for art teachers...virtual museum exploration.

Our goal is to provide examples of differentiated lessons and student activities to inspire you. We post the examples here and provide the source/reference. This is so that we do not loose these wonderful examples because links are no longer valid. These differentiation resources are used in a middle school or high school classroom.

A good overview of twitter and its benefits in education...

TED Talk

Ask question from a community of teachers; Answer questions to share your best practices; Join the crowd to vote up great answers, earn reputation for your own, and help run EdCrowd.

Goals/challenges - 30 for 30 days - related to educational technology. A yudu book written by Shelly Terrell.

A new sort of tools - and a new sort of ethics - are required for the next generation of students to succeed in the face of global challenges. Come explore how social media can be used by educators to effect positive social change. See examples of how teachers have collaborated with colleagues, connected their classrooms to others around the globe, and helped to bring green initiatives to their schools and communities. Discover how students too can use powerful (and often free) tools to tap into their own passions, bring new relevance to their learning, and make a real difference in their world.

Today, we can restore the dignity and integrity of the child as a contributor. Across the country, pioneering teachers are providing students with new roles that have students making contributions to their learning communities. We have powerful, easy-to-use tools such as screencasting and podcasting that give students opportunities to contribute content to the class. At the same time we can also provide them with rigorous and more motivating assignments and better prepare them to become more productive in our new global economy.

Welcome to the CK12.ORG website (the "Site") which is owned and operated by CK-12 Foundation, a California non-profit corporation ("CK-12" or "we"). CK-12's mission is to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-source, collaborative, and web-based compilation model, CK-12 pioneers and promotes the creation and distribution of high-quality, adaptive online textbooks that can be mixed, modified and printed (i.e., the FlexBook™ textbooks).

Rafi.ki is a secure online learning community that lets your pupils talk to schools all over the world. We have a dedicated team of facilitators who will help you work with your existing partners or find new ones. Rafi.ki contains an exciting and constantly updated bank of more than 30 projects covering all areas of the curriculum. The site is rigorously password protected and all members are vetted. Trained moderators help to ensure friendly international collaboration.

NYS Adoption of TPACK

When it comes to active learning, nothing beats presenting live in front of fellow classmates. Encourage your students to discover themselves while learning about historical characters. This competition is fun and engaging. Students are to portray their favorite historical character on video. All entries will be posted on our website.

Grants also support efforts to develop new learning environments to understand how schools, libraries, museums, and other formal and informal institutions need to adapt, change, and collaborate as a result of young people's use of digital media. Projects are looking at learning in virtual worlds, through game design, with mobile devices, and through the interactions in social networks-in and out of school. Resources support new school design, including a model based on the principles of game design that shape and inform all aspects of teaching and learning.

Each archive includes questions, discussions, and accompanying resources from the live webinar. To find a specific archive, use the pull-down filter below to search by subtopic and then subtopic, or use the column headings to sort by title, topic, subtopic, presenter or date.

Design Thinking is a mindset and methodology that centers around problem solving. Using Design Thinking in education creates curriculum that focuses on students going through a process to inquire, brainstorm, and create solutions to real interdisciplinary problems.

We are pleased to welcome you to New Hampshire's first statewide on-line virtual public school. The Academy's goal is to use the latest internet technologies to provide our students with any time, any where access to a rigorous, personalized education that helps them learn today, graduate tomorrow and prepare for the future. A few highlights about the Academy: Tuition-free for all students residing in NH; We accept both full-time and part-time students; We accept out-of-state students. Out-of-state students pay tuition fees; An approved New Hampshire public school; Courses taught by New Hampshire certified instructors.