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Link to Google Classroom - requires a Google Apps for Education account and join code for class.

Week 6 recommended resources video "District and school leaders emphasize the importance of collaborative leadership, the role of the principals, and the challenges of educators keeping up with the students" from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 - Recommended reading "The Frameworks Institute, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, provides a set of framing research reports and application tools to help education leaders increase public support for digital learning initiatives. Their main findings and recommendations are summarized in a Message Memo about Talking About Learning and Digital Media and a related video, and the site provides several additional resources" from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 Recommended Reading "In a chapter from The Digital Classroom: How Technology is Changing the Way We Teach and Learn (Harvard Education Letter, 2000), Glenn Kleiman describes five myths that, as one of your MOOC-Ed leaders, he wishes were much more out of date now that we are more than a decade later" from MOOC-Ed

Week 2 Additional Reading: "Jenifer O. Corn, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, March 2013 provides a brief summary of the relevant research" from MOOC-Ed

Week 1 Additional suggested video resources: ["Edutopia Big Thinker Series. Dr. Gardner, the originator of the concept of multiple intelligences, discusses his thoughts about technology, education and ethics" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 - Additional suggested video: ["Two national leaders, who helped write the 2010 National Education Technology Plan (listed in the printed resources below), discuss the plan, personalization of learning, new curriculum standards and assessments, and their insights about directions for digital learning. Excerpted from an interview with Glenn Kleiman from EpicEd.org" 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]

Week 1 - Additional suggested video ["A video summary of the report is listed in the next section. Each year, NMC analyzes the potential of emerging technologies for K-12 education and predicts, for each type of technology (e.g., tablet computing, game-based learning, augmented reality), the time-to-adoption horizon, ranging from one to five years. These are very valuable reports for keeping up with emerging technologies" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 Additional suggested reading ["pp 7-19. This is the national plan developed by the U.S. Department of Education, with input from a committee of national leaders in digital learning" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 Additional suggested reading: ["Each year, NMC analyzes the potential of emerging technologies for K-12 education and predicts, for each type of technology (e.g., tablet computing, game-based learning, augmented reality), the time-to-adoption horizon, ranging from one to five years. These are very valuable reports for keeping up with emerging technologies. A link to a short video summary is provided in the video resources section above" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 Additional suggested reading ["K. Walsh, Emerging EdTech Blog, Sept. 4, 2011. This blog entry provides more of a classroom view than the NMC report, and focuses on what's already happening, rather than what may happen in future years. It has a succinct list with links for examples, tools and more information" from MOOC Ed]

You can sign up for a tour inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and meet the scientists and engineers working on some of our nation's space programs.

Please Share ReadWorks with your colleagues and friends. It's free. The non-profit ReadWorks is committed to solving the nation's reading comprehension crisis by giving teachers the research-proven tools and support they need to improve the academic achievement of their students. ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly. The ReadWorks curriculum is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and the standards of all 50 states. Most importantly, ReadWorks is faithful to the most effective research-proven instructional practices in reading comprehension.

International Society for Technology Education 2015 Conference in Philadelphia June 28-July 1.

Click the yellow button under STEP 3 half way down the page for all six Sphero programming lessons.

I know I already posted abcya.com, but I found this very basic way of teaching coding today - used it with the 4th graders and they loved it! Lightbot is a educational game for kids that introduces several principles of programming.

Common Sense Education video about the SAMR model that we saw together.

"The project was created in 2010 with a simple goal in mind; one book to connect the world. Now with five years under our belt and more than 500,000 connections made in 60 different countries, we realize we are on to something larger than us so we look forward to continuing the global connections. The premise is simple; we pick a book to read aloud to our students during a set 6-week period and during that time we try to make as many global connections as possible. Each teacher decides how much time they would like to dedicate and how involved they would like to be. Some people choose to connect with just one class, while others go for as many as possible. The scope and depth of the project is up to you. In the past we have used Twitter, Skype, Edmodo, our wiki, email, regular mail, Kidblog, Tackk, and any other tools we can think of to make these connections. Teachers get a community of other educators to do a global project with, hopefully inspiring them to continue these connections through the year."

With technology moving out of the lab and into the classroom, it's becoming a challenge for some teachers to infuse their teaching with tech tools such as websites, educational games, simulations, iPads, Chromebooks, GAFE, and other geeky devices that used to be the purview of a select group of nerdy teachers.

Thanks I saved this for myself. I like the ideas. They are something we should all have in mind as we work with teachers.