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Patrick Higgins

Steli Efti : Throw Down the Gauntlet: Break the Chains of Bad Practice, Build Our Future - 0 views

  • Consider letting students create teacher PD as part of their technology education program.
  • Move towards a model of embedded professional development.  Binge professional development that happens in one day rarely creates sustainable, system wide change.  Move toward embedded programs like the 23 things that involve teachers in their own pd and requires them to research, reflect, and use the tools.
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    Give this a read. What do you think?
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    Great article at Supercool School.
Patrick Higgins

Annenberg Media - 0 views

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    Annenberg media programs that span all aspects of the curriculum. Designed around adult learners, it seems, but great for self-directed learners.
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    more media clips.
Patrick Higgins

Download - Ommwriter - 1 views

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    If you need a program that blocks out everything else and just lets you write, this one is beautiful.
Patrick Higgins

Alice: Free, Easy, Interactive 3D Graphics for the WWW - 0 views

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    Very cool tool that students can use to program movement of objects.
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    I think we might want to look at this a little closer, especially for getting the kids involved in making games.
Patrick Higgins

NPR: Foraging For Food - 0 views

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    This is heartbreaking.
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    NPR slideshow care of Andy Carvin at NPR.
Patrick Higgins

Online Spelling Program - 0 views

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    Pass this along to your LA counterparts.
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    Great resource a la Tom Barrett
Erica Hartman

FRONTLINE: growing up online: watch the full program | PBS - 0 views

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    free to watch
Patrick Higgins

Plan B - Skip College - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Perhaps no more than half of those who began a four-year bachelor’s degree program in the fall of 2006 will get that degree within six years, according to the latest projections from the Department of Education.
  • Of the 30 jobs projected to grow at the fastest rate over the next decade in the United States, only seven typically require a bachelor’s degree, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Among the top 10 growing job categories, two require college degrees: accounting (a bachelor’s) and postsecondary teachers (a doctorate)
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  • this growth is expected to be dwarfed by the need for registered nurses, home health aides, customer service representatives and store clerks. None of those jobs require a bachelor’s degree.
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    I think there is validity to this one.
Patrick Higgins

Educational Leadership:Teaching Social Responsibility:Service Learning and Civic Partic... - 0 views

  • The strongest effects have generally been found for service learning programs that have the explicit aim of developing active citizenship, in contrast with those that emphasize community service and character building
Patrick Higgins

Stykz - The first multi-platform stick figure animation program - 0 views

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    Stick-figure animation software.
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