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Polar Bears International Fall Tundra Connections- FREE Live Webcasts! - Digital Human ... - 0 views

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    "Polar Bears International Fall Tundra Connections- FREE Live Webcasts!"
Phil Taylor

Classroom 101 - YouTube - 1 views

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    What Google Classroom may look like. Should be rolled out this fall for members of Google Apps for Education.
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Previewing a new Classroom by Google - YouTube - 0 views

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    Coming to Google Apps for Education this fall.
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Google Announces New 'Classroom' Tools | EdSurge News - 0 views

  • Classroom, Yeskel says managing classroom assignments will be even easier. Teachers can create a class and enroll students with their Google Apps for Education email, or by sharing a class code. Once the roster is set, teachers can create, assign, collect and grade assignments. They can also see in real-time how students are doing and offer feedback as well.
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    Should be in place by the fall for GAFE schools. Looks very interesting.
Phil Taylor

20 Warning Signs That you are Behind the Times with Instructional Uses of Technology - 0 views

  • That’s not to say that tech for the sake of tech is a good idea on the classroom – it’s most certainly not. Instructional technology use should be driven by pedagogy and not the other way around.
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How My School Is Transitioning to Digital Textbooks: Organizing (Step 1 of 5) | Edutopia - 0 views

  • How My School Is Transitioning to Digital Textbooks: Organizing (Step 1 of 5)
  • This fall, Burlington High School will transition to a 1:1 school exclusively with the iPad 2. One of the goals of this initiative is to slowly transition curriculum and textbooks to ePub format. ePub file format allows anyone to create a file that is readable on an iOS device or Kindle like a book
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21st Century Competencies - 0 views

  • education is falling behind the curve,1 as it did during the rapid changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution.
  • The last major changes to cur­riculum2 were effected in the late 1800s as a response to the sudden growth in societal and human capital needs
  • Having students develop deep knowledge is as essential as ever. But today, we must also make that knowledge relevant.
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  • Tough choices must be made regarding what to pare back in order to allow for more appropriate areas of focus
  • we need to infuse “themes” — important lenses such as global literacy, environmental literacy, information literacy, digital literacy, systems thinking, and design thinking
  • Higher-order skills such as the “4 C’s” — creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration4 — are essential for deeply learning knowledge as well as for demonstrating understanding through performance.
  • Character is about how we engage in the world.
  • Meta-learning is the awareness of one’s own learning and cognitive ability. Having such an awareness is the best hedge against continuous changes.
  • Historical inertia has been a large deciding factor when it comes to curriculum design, at the policy/process level.
  • we must keep two key questions before us at all times: Is education relevant enough for this century? Are we educating students to be versatile in a world that is increasingly challenged and challenging?
  • The Opportunity for Independent Schools
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