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4 Tips for Integrating Social Media Into the Classroom - 0 views

  • Instead of dismissing social media as distracting or destructive, schools should embrace it as an essential part of the curriculum. Not only does this limit the potential for students to abuse the technology, but it opens a new set of valuable educational tools.
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1:1 Laptops in the Classroom-Where Are We Now? - 1 views

  • The article asserts that indeed, the success of a 1:1 laptop program rests in the preparation and teaching strategies of the teacher in the classroom,
  • or a program to work, teacher professional development and preparation, well in advance, is essential
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Resources | Teaching With and About Technology - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • What are the potential benefits and drawbacks of using technology for learning? Are tech tools essentials, distractions or somewhere in between? How are other teachers using technology? What tech skills do today’s teachers need to use digital tools effectively?
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The Best Way to Store Stuff in the Cloud - 1 views

  • We tested eleven of the most popular cloud storage services out there, looked at their price-per-gigabyte, and considered their various features and functionality.
  • How sweet it is. SugarSync is essentially everything we wanted.
  • Budget Winner: Google
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Your Mom's Winner: Dropbox
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Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Five Hallmarks of Good Homework - 1 views

  • Homework shouldn't be about rote learning. The best kind deepens student understanding and builds essential skills
Phil Taylor

Marc My Words: Back to School - Tablets in the Classroom by Marc J. Rosenberg : Learnin... - 1 views

  • Re-writing curriculum, engaging in faculty development, and implementing new instructional design models are essential if we are to realize the promise of technology. Funding faculty workshops, developing master teachers who can teach others, and sharing content development costs regionally are just some of the ways we can approach this challenge.
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Inanimate Alice: Born Digital | Digital Is ... - 0 views

  • Understanding and integrating new literacies related to the production and consumption of digital content has become essential for education in this digital age.
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Is Gaming the New Essential Literacy? | MindShift - 1 views

  • Games are fun, but their real value lies in leveraging play and exploration as a mode of learning the literacy of problem-solving, which lowers the emotional stakes of failing.
Phil Taylor

Googleable vs Non-Googleable Questions \ The Lab - 0 views

  • The Why Every topic, every bit of learning has content that can be Googled, and we don't want teachers wasting precious enquiry time lecturing that content. We want students, instead, to be using class time to collaborate and debate around the questions that are Not Googleable, the rich higher order thinking
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From Traditional Teacher to "Modern Learning Advisor" - Modern Learners - 0 views

  • From a content and skills standpoint, why wouldn’t we expect teachers to connect their students to the smartest, most experienced experts they can find online?
  • But it is not  either/or approach.  It’s NOT either the traditional approach or the modern approach. There is room for both approaches, particularly there will still be a need for the design and management of essential (e.g. compliance, and regulatory) training.
  • If nothing else, we should be thinking and talking about this, about how the new realities of the world require different thinking and doing and defining, especially in the context of the roles the adults play in the classroom.
Phil Taylor

Our Moral Imperative - Modern Learners - 0 views

  • what would happen if we didn’t focus so much on college, if we deemphasized grades, or if we assigned less homework, etc. Here are some of the answers Gleason got:
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