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"International Dot Day, a global celebration of creativity, courage and collaboration, began when teacher Terry Shay introduced his classroom to Peter H. Reynolds' book The Dot on September 15, 2009. The Dot is the story of a caring teacher who dares a doubting student to trust in her own abilities by being brave enough to "make her mark". What begins with a small dot on a piece of paper becomes a breakthrough in confidence and courage, igniting a journey of self-discovery and sharing, which has gone on to inspire countless children and adults around the globe. And each year on International Dot Day - with the help of people just like you -the inspiration continues. What started as a story in the pages of a book is transforming teaching and learning around the world as people of all ages re-discover the power and potential of creativity in all they do. "

This could be a great set of statements to reflect on for our Creativity and Innovation strand skills.

This could be a great set of statements to reflect on for our Creativity and Innovation strand skills.

"Teachers have told us they need a place to access safe images that are available to be used in the classroom and for educational purposes. Plus, they want accurate image citations. We've heard you and created "Photos For Class" to meet your needs for images! Thanks Mary-Alice and Barbara. Age Appropriate Images - All images are appropriate for the school setting, thanks to Flicker SafeSearch and our proprietary filters - Read More Automatic Citation - Downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms - Read More Creative Commons - All photos shown are, to the best of our (and Flickr's) knowledge, licensed by Creative Commons for public use "

Explore free downloadable rubrics organized by the digital age skill you are looking to assess: Communication (Presentation), Collaboration, Creativity & Critical Thinking. Each digital age skill rubric is also broken down into different grade spans, providing a complete set of 4C rubrics for Grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-12.

Interesting rubrics from K-12 for presentations, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. Areas that we need to extend in the curriculum map for technology.

Week 6 recommended reading "Ken Kay, the former president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and now CEO of EdLeader21, provides a series of seven blogs describing a framework for leadership actions to implement the 4Cs (critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity) in schools" from MOOC-Ed

Week 1 Additional suggested video: ["Edutopia provides profiles of technologically sophisticated students, with both a video and a written interview for each. The 10 students range in age from nine to 18. They are engaged in a of variety productive, creative uses of technology, including: producing videos; forming groups engaged in social activism; creating animations; writing blogs; and creating educational and other types of web sites. The link takes you to a menu where you can choose the profile of one or more students" from MOOC Ed]

Two free apps: "Students can use them to unleash their creativity and delve into a world of imagination creating scenes, designing characters, animating cartoons and telling their own stories through beautifully recorded shows."

Things you love are Made with Code. Code your first creative project and meet music producers, fashion designers, humanitarians, and animators who are coding the world they want to see.

Storybird is a great free website. You can create a class account and student accounts. The students have to be creative because there are limited, but beautiful images to support the student writing.

"This excerpt appears in the Buck Institute for Education's book, "PBL for 21st Century Success: Teaching Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity." Rubrics for each of the "4 C's" are in the book, and we offer guidance below on how to use them in a PBL context."

Some background on the rubrics I shared.

by Terry Heick It could be argued-and probably argued well-that what a student fundamentally needs to know today isn't much different than what Tom Sawyer or Joan of Arc or Alexander the Great needed to know. Communication. Resourcefulness. Creativity. Persistence. How true this turns out to be depends on how macro you want to get.

Clickable briefs in PDF format.

In-line with our last technology integrator meeting...this is a great article on how students can locate copyright-friendly images. Page 2 of the article shows how students can search google for "labeled for reuse" images and more!

Thank you. I added it to the RCAN Learns Creative Commons link.

"Our unique curriculums stimulate unforgettable 1-to-1 interactions between US students and their Global Partner students - interactions that teach STEAM and design thinking through collaborative, real-life problem solving on an international scale."