EduTechK12November

"This is the second part of Alan's discussion with Eric Marcos, BLC presenter and middle school teacher in Santa Monica, CA. In this episode, Eric, his students and Alan focus on the student created tutorials' impact on how students are learning and how Eric can evaluate problems individual students might be having."

The Student News Action Network was created, and is maintained, by students and teachers at Washington International School in collaboration with TakingITGlobal and bureau schools worldwide."

In this podcast, Alan interviews Silvia Tolisano, 21st Century Learning Specialist, along with other administrators, teachers and students at Martin J. Gottlieb School. Here, students are being encouraged to take more of a leadership role in their learning as they take part in a variety of jobs inspired by Alan November's article, Students as Contributors"

"Adding some technology to the educational process is one thing, but truly revolutionary learning experiences take a deeper sort of innovation, which you can see at a program at Duke working for change in Haiti."

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This an overview graphic of the Learning Design framework we are using in South Australia. Add the role technology might play in supporting learning.

Learn more about innovative programs and approaches that strengthen the roles of today's teachers and school administrators; and how participating in internships and learning best practices, exemplary teacher-preparation programs allow teacher candidates the time to spend in classrooms with experienced mentors.

Resources from Alan November's full day workshop at #tech_k12

Resources from Alan November's full day workshop at #tech_k12

Reviews "Pink's ideas deserve a wide hearing. Corporate boards, in fact, could do well by kicking out their pay consultants for an hour and reading Pink's conclusions instead."- Forbes "Fascinating . . .

"From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the bestselling A Whole New Mind, comes a paradigm-shattering look at what truly motivates us and how we can use that knowledge to work smarter and live better."

"http://www.ted.com Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help."

"Evaluate websites with variations and extensions of skills you use to evaluate print materials."

This was great, gave me lots of ideas, stage 4 PDHPE does have a requirement to do some of this, but not to this dept. Global citizens!

Another WHOIS tool

Google provides shortcuts for finding commonly sought utilities and information, which you may have previously found offline or on specialized sites. The results of these shortcuts appear to the right of a tag or specialized icon and above your search results.

After writing my Teacher Challenge guest post on using Twitter to build your PLN, I was asked by a number of people about hashtags. I know when I first started using Twitter, it took me a little while to get my head around what the # symbol meant.

Another bogus website to use with students: It takes hundreds of years to form and only minutes to vaporize... Pure, refreshing, crystal clear, filtered, and compressed dehydrated water.

Bogus website for teaching web literacy

"easily lookup domain name whois records and DNS information for any top level domain name or IP address block."