I am big fan of Seth Godin because what he writes really resonates with me. Also, don't miss the video at the end - what is school for (https://youtu.be/_PsLRgEYf9E)

On a lighter note, this also rings true:)

Sadly, this rings true to me and yesterday at curriculum night, a few parents expressed concerns that their daughters used to love STEM and for some "unexplainable" reasons were drifting away during middle school. Here's one reason.

brief, beautiful & backed up by research

intellectual challenge and accomplishment, authenticity, public product, collaboration, project management and reflection

"I switched to an assessment system based on observation, feedback, iteration, and student self-evaluation. Students began completing all assignments, became more engaged learners, and even passed standardized tests at higher rates than their peers in classrooms with traditional grades."

"The purpose of education is not to sort kids-it's to grow kids. Teachers need to coach and mentor, but with grades, teachers turn into judges."

While we as a society work together for solutions to end mass violence, we educators need to rethink how we teach masculinity through our deeds and actions.

This site highlights the characteristics needed for transformational change and shares real-life stories of those characteristics in action: Vision, Empathy, Perseverance, Community, Risk, Collaboration & Mobilization.

This is a MUST listen to episode of TED Radio Hour about the impact of social media on us and how few of people are actually part of creating it: "We're swimming in this digital environment that is created and hand-crafted by a handful of companies with deliberate goals to capture human attention. Now you have 2 billion people, 25% of population and 90% of GDP, whose thoughts are shaped by this handful of 20 to 40 year old mostly engineers and designers in CA. … This problem is underneath all other problems." Tristan Harris

fascinating

A teacher I follow on twitter shared his 2016 post about Dot Day (which is today), but thought you might be able to find other uses for the tool he used: Visual Poetry (http://www.languageisavirus.com/visual-poetry) which lets you paint with your words. Very cool!

Interesting thoughts on tech integration not just approached at curriculum level, but at whole school culture level.

Great TEDTalk by OK Go and their creative process. Makes me wonder what spaces we have for students to play in "sandboxes".

why indeed?

What does a world filled with digital orphans, digital exiles and digital heirs mean to the future?

I found this explanation of rude vs. mean vs. bullying very helpful

Per the writer, "there is optimism- the schools that focus on innovation and entrepreneurship NOW will be producing the leaders that will innovate/find opportunities/ invent the 'not yet thought of careers.'" What do you think?

This recent study is why what you are doing in your classrooms to integrate web literacy is so critical: "young people's ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak"

Interesting read about the challenges of addressing media literacy in school & why it is so important. "Today's schools are focusing on boosting kids' technological proficiency and warning them about the perils of the web. But something critical is missing from this education. On the other end are the skeptics, among them the adults who fear that kids are being thrusted into a world of cyberbullies and pedophiles."