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Free materials to help support your PBL ideas. Not all are excellent, but there are some good ideas here that might be useful.

Is exploration better than explicit teaching?

Smart post by Sam Gliksman on the reasons for classroom iPad use. A lot of what he says applies to technology in general.

If you've got an Android phone, you can easily build a program on it using this software. It uses a graphical programming interface that's quite simple to learn.

A physics professor at SLU uses free software to deconstruct the physics of Angry Birds. He measures velocity and acceleration over time using Tracker Video Analysis. Nice way to connect science to gaming...

"Here's a comprehensive list of open education sites MindShift has covered." Includes MIT Open CourseWare, Curriki, OER, and many others.

"Itzhak Perlman muses about Mozart and modern technology."

What does the new tech landscape mean for today's educational systems?

"Despite the American Academy of Pediatricians' longstanding recommendations to the contrary, children under 8 are spending more time than ever in front of screens, according to a study scheduled for release Tuesday." (Oct. 25, 2011)

Recently, Christine Wiser T&L's Managing Editor, asked the Tech Advisors the following question: What do you think are the top three most important issues facing K-12 edtech this year? 1. Mobile device adoption. Especially bring your own device program implementation. 2. Getting people to really understand what is meant by 21st century teaching and learning. 3. Anytime, anywhere learning.

"the school's chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. No screens at all. They are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home."

interactive visual animation of brain development

Loved the graphics - thank you Rose for sharing this!

Metacognitive study at Columbia U

"It was just another day here at St. John's College, whose distinctiveness goes far beyond its curriculum of great works: Aeschylus and Aristotle, Bacon and Bach. As much of academia fractures into ever more specific disciplines, this tiny college still expects - in fact, requires - its professors to teach almost every subject, leveraging ignorance as much as expertise."

"It was just another day here at St. John's College, whose distinctiveness goes far beyond its curriculum of great works: Aeschylus and Aristotle, Bacon and Bach. As much of academia fractures into ever more specific disciplines, this tiny college still expects - in fact, requires - its professors to teach almost every subject, leveraging ignorance as much as expertise."

"GFW High school  in Minnesota is really leading the race at this point.  I  read the blog Ed Galaxy by Kevin Cummins regularly.  Kevin frequently shares great stuff.  Today is a wonderful article, The Ultimate Guide to Using iPads in the Classroom. In that article, he links to the GFW iPad Policy, Procedures and information.  It is chalked full of good information for any school thinking about 1:1 with iPads.  So, I did a little diggin and found their school website, including the iPad initiative pages that has even more useful information.  They are in their 2nd year of this, so, clearly they have a lot of the bugs worked out.  No need to re-invent the wheel, take their lead and learn from them!!  What more can I say, but WOW!!"

Nice list of free and cheap screen capture tools.

Google Apps tools that support Anderson/Krathwohl's revision to Bloom's taxonomy.

Examples of iPad applications that can support the different levels of the taxonomy. Based on Anderson/Krathwohl's revision, not Bloom's original.

Another article that discusses the effectiveness of technology in learning. . while also including marketing information