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Part 3 that focuses on what older children get out of interacting with younger children

List of thinking skills with good descriptors and graphic organizers

Glean Comparison Search (formerly "All Sides" at Boolify) helps you and your students explore differing points of view about a topic. Through its fluid scaffolding structure for the comparative research process, it helps researchers develop a keener, more refined ability to explore their own conceptions vis a vis differing views.

"A New School Teaches Students Through Videogames A school uses videogame-based lessons to teach a new generation of kids "

"All of the ideas on the iPods page can work on the iPod Touch, PLUS - lots of language learning apps - flashcards and games taking photos an labelling them using an app called LabelBox = these images can then be used for revision in another class"

Best Websites for Teaching and Learning

"Here are over 100 ways that different social technologies (and tools) are being used by learning professionals worldwide - compiled from the comments of those who have contributed their Top Tools for Learning in 2009. "

The Vision of Students Today - remix 2011 Michael wesch

"I have been working with 5th grade for several weeks to upgrade "The American Revolution", a unit in their Social Studies curriculum. Along the Way I blogged about individual lessons"

The NSDL Middle School Portal project is evolving! You can still rely on the NSDL Middle School Portal web site for high-quality resources but now through the Middle School Portal 2: Math & Science Pathways (MSP2) social network you can connect to colleagues and share knowledge within and beyond the MSP2 community.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/language-arts-apple-summer/id45...

We need to develop more learning opportunities where students constitute the actual evaluators for the work itself. Imagine if students, teachers and others evaluate and provide feedback to determine the effectiveness of a student's creation: Develop an 60-second speech to be shared with the student council and three advertising posters to be copied and placed around school to decrease bullying. Your work will be evaluated according to our rubric by the students in our class, outside professionals and me - as the teacher. These are the experiences that push learning beyond a one-way conversation between student and teacher. They demystify the assessment process and allow each student to be a creator and simultaneous evaluator, providing multiple experiences for students to recognize and apply the criteria for quality"

" Four Steps for Jumpstarting Global-Collaboration Projects"

"The growing access to knowledge, information, people, and tools that our students are getting demands a shift in how we think about the work they do in school."

""We saw how the best practices we were witnessing could inform a really transformative school model," Healy said. Here are their 6 chief take-aways from what they saw and learned about schools that work.

"Blogging can support the strategies, techniques and approaches to facilitate the learning in your classroom no matter what grade level, age group and subject area. Blogging supports four primary areas: Reading Writing Reflecting Sharing"