sbisd early adopters

Here is another post by Ms. Kirch sharing her classroom setup. boy, don't you wish your classroom were that big!

Here's a free ebook on how to get started on Twitter for PD! Download today!

This has nothing to do with technology (well, maybe the book trailers) but all about developing readers and a love of it! 

Great resources for education.

A teacher describes a teachable moment with her middle school students on appropriateness of sharing digital content. Have you had the opportunity to talk about this with your students?

this looks like a fabulous tool for creating lessons on the iPad. Take a look! It is free! I GUESS its limitations is that it is intended for teacher use? Need to read the Terms of Service...

Resources to create your own infographics

There are some great suggestions for consideration for flipping such as the use of guiding questions, advanced organizers, etc. Thoughtful article!

Short motivational videos to start a meeting

WOW! 33 skills. How many do you possess? Thoughts? 

As I read more and more blogs, twitter feeds, etc. teachers everywhere are asking how to engage their students. This blog post demonstrates a real shift in ownership to the students!

In the ideal classroom, all students would learn how to work cooperatively with others, compete for fun and enjoyment, and work autonomously on their own. Cooperation is working together to accomplish shared goals. Within cooperative situations, individuals seek outcomes that are beneficial to themselves and beneficial to all other group members. it may be concluded that it is the drive for goal accomplishment that motivates cooperative and competitive behavior. Positive interdependence tends to result in promotive interaction, negative interdependence tends to result in oppositional or contrient interaction, and no interdependence results in an absence of interaction.

IQ was a popular measurement but it did not capture the type of thinking that generated novel solutions to urgent predicaments. First, creativity is not equivalent to intelligence. Second, divergent thinking is central to the concept of creativity. Third, we can develop tests to measure divergent thinking skills. What is the relationship between creativity and intelligence? How do we measure creativity? And what, exactly, is creativity? undergrads were better at solving insight-based problems when they tested during their least optimal time participants who played a difficult working memory game known as the n-BACK task scored higher on tests of a fundamental cognitive ability known as fluid intelligence: the capacity to solve new problems, to make insights and see connections independent of previous knowledge. Cognitive flexibility, the ability to switch between thinking about two concepts or consider multiple perspectives simultaneously