Praxis Commons

These specialty products, all of which are currently sold over the good old Internet, manage to push the boundaries of extravagance and questionable taste, simultaneously. You'd be surprised how many of them are sold out.

Download a free copy of Media Meltdown, media literacy graphic novel for 8-14 year olds. Teacher resources, media lit games and more at http://mediameltdown.net.

The document camera idea alone is terrific.

Over the course of dozens of books, Freire proposed that educators focus on creating equity and changing systems of oppression within public schools and society

An excellent selection of videos about classroom management.

In this paper we develop a notion of public pedagogy that deviates from the one espoused by Giroux and his focus on postmodernism and popular culture. Our theoretical framework is based on young peoples engagements with media texts, their involvement with youth arts projects and the ways in which community members read youth arts projects and the artefacts they produce.

A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. The 15 essays in this collection examine and challenge the assumptions and beliefs underlying the theory and practice of gifted education today

Lots of other things to use for presenting these days beyond powerpoint. A good collection for students or teachers.

TLt 2009: Presentation by Dean Shareski & Alec Couros about web2.0 approaches to education.

African-American students, in particular-often perform better in cooperative-learning groups

Classroom assessment reform is much more than using a variety of new techniques. It means teachers using their judgments about children's knowledge or understanding to improve the teaching process and to determine what to do for individual children.

I actually think these attitudes apply way beyond teaching and teachers. these are the attitudes I'd like to see the business world adopt.

There's a disgusting amount of hate on the internet (especially on youtube!) directed at minority groups (especially the LGBT community) so i [ed: steviebeebishop@youtube] was inspired to organize this collab video. i never set out to "change the world" i simply wanted to make something light hearted to put a smile on the face of any hate-victim watching. you're not alone! stevie loves you :)

Alex Goodenough, 17, taught himself at home from textbooks after Hertfordshire and Essex high school and science college (H&E) rejected his application to study there.

If you're new to Second Life or simply want to refresh yourself on the essentials, we've freshly published a Quickstart Guide PDF! Perfect for perusing and printing (to paper), this elegant, stylish doc will prime you on basic Second Life skills while making you smile in 7 pages.

teachers are the most important group driving adoption of these technologies in K-12 education.

"I am what I create" says John Seely Brown addressing the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching - Stanford, C

"the boundaries between traditional disciplines are dissolving, traditional methods of representing knowledge (books, academic papers, and so on) are becoming less important, and the role of traditional academics or experts are undergoing major change,"

So far on this blog, my posts have explored larger themes, such as Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants and the media's treatment of stories about technological dangers. But our blog here at Digital Nation also aims to take you behind the scenes and into the process of making a documentary film for FRONTLINE. We want you to see what we're working on, read what we're thinking about, and learn how our reporting is shaping our opinions on a daily basis.

In this day and age, though, programming, marketing, design, and other self-taught skills are pretty valuable, however you came by them.