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"8. How do we tap into all learners' sense of agency, idealism and their social imaginations, i.e. their capacity to imagine the world, as it should be, and the tools and capacities to act?"

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"new Pew Research survey of more than 2,400 middle school and high school teachers released today shows that, while teachers believe technology has helped with their teaching, it's also brought new challenges - including the possibility of creating a bigger rift between low-income and high-income students."

"Finding ways for kids to communicate information can be a bit of a challenge. Its easy to fall into the Power Point or Prezi track. Or even easier to not offer up any technology opportunities at all. There are loads of great creation/presentation tools out there. Voicethread, Google Sites, Animoto just to name a few are some of the creative ways in the past I've covered. But I am always on the look out for something new and easy to use. And I think I might have found that. Tackk. "

"A presentation to the Association of Independent Schools of New South Wales (Australia) ICT Managers Conference 2011."

"Doug shared this quote from his research (Martin, 2006): "Digital literacy is a condition, not a threshold." It changes the way we teach. It's a relationship and represents the way we orient ourselves with the world. Digital literacy doesn't include a sequential set of skills. There's a lot more "messing around" involved, and it's subjective and highly contextual. Digital literacy in a K-12 setting varies greatly from that in a collegiate setting."

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"As regular readers of middle grades teacher Bill Ferriter's much admired blog The Tempered Radical, we've been following some of the adventures of his #SUGARKILLS Gang - a group of sixth grade science students who got passionately interested in the way sugary foods impact the American diet and psyche. Through their use of a dedicated blog and the Twitter hashtag #sugarkills, the students have been pushing out information about the often shocking amounts of sugar found in a variety of popular food items. To further the cause of "real-world learning," we asked Mr. Ferriter if we could interview the gang. Here's what we found out."

"Poking through my Twitterstream the other day, I stumbled across a great quote from digital thought-leader Marc Prensky. He wrote: "Technology gives kids power that people their age have never had. Let's help them use it wisely." That's an incredibly important point, isn't it? The fact of the matter is that the kids sitting in your classroom - whether they are six or sixteen - don't have to sit on life's sidelines waiting until they grow up in order to make a difference in the world around them. Instead, they can be agents of change today. In my classroom, that agency starts and ends with digital tools. "

"Poking through my Twitterstream the other day, I stumbled across a great quote from digital thought-leader Marc Prensky. He wrote: "Technology gives kids power that people their age have never had. Let's help them use it wisely." That's an incredibly important point, isn't it? The fact of the matter is that the kids sitting in your classroom - whether they are six or sixteen - don't have to sit on life's sidelines waiting until they grow up in order to make a difference in the world around them. Instead, they can be agents of change today. In my classroom, that agency starts and ends with digital tools."

"I am keenly aware that many of my colleagues are not, for various reasons, gung ho about educational technology. And it's interesting. Quite often, the teachers who are hesitant to adopt new technology are great - in fact, amazing - educators. They are frequently veterans and usually leaders in their academic field and within their institutions. In my role as tech advocate, I habitually find myself trying to coax these established educators to use new tools and incorporate new methodologies. Here are some ways I have found to be successful in this endeavor."

"The video above first appeared in a Huffington Post article last week titled The Independent Project - High School Allows Teens To Decide Their Own Curriculum. The clip gives an overview of a progressive program at Monument Mountain High School in Great Barrington, MA that allows students to design their own course of studies. I can't help wondering how many of our students would jump at the opportunity to do something similar..."

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"To create your own Flipboard magazine you have to first create a free Flipboard account. Then install the Flipboard bookmarklet in your browser (Firefox, Chrome, or Safari). After you have the bookmarklet installed you can click it whenever you find something you want to add to one of your Flipboard magazines. You can also send items to your magazines from withing the Flipboard app as you read through your feeds. To do that just click the "+" icon while reading an article in Flipboard. You can create public and private magazines for as many topics as you like. For example, you could create a magazine about teaching mathematics and a magazine about school administration."

"What's the only thing better than Flipboard? Flipboard 2.0! It's a major new edition, with treats for everyone from the casual reader to the power user. There's more content than ever to enjoy, including a new partnership with Etsy. When you search, we instantly create a magazine out of your results. It's faster, more visual, and easier to navigate. And, for the first time, you can collect and save articles, photos, audio and video by organizing them into beautiful magazines. These can be private, or if you want to connect with like-minded enthusiasts, you can make them public and share them on Flipboard and beyond. Now everyone can be a reader and an editor."

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