UNI Curriculum & Instruction

College students think of information seeking as a rote process and tend to use the same small set of information resources no matter their question. Information literacy is essential for lifelong learning and empowers individuals and societies. Our educational system should expose students to information literacy from elementary school through postsecondary education so that it is a habit of mind they can call upon throughout their lives. Collaborative efforts between faculty, librarians, technology professionals, and others can develop students who graduate with information literacy competency.

The latest partnership to offer free massively open online courses (MOOCs). Good article outlining the history of such initiatives.

The 2011 Global Education Conference will be held November 14 - 18, online and free. Sessions will take place in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days. The 2010 Global Education Conference had 15,028 unique logins and presentations from 62 countries.

From Newton's laws of motion to roller coaster physics, this STEM focused theme has what you need to plan lessons with a Promethean ActivClassroom. 

Check out this free web-based graphing calculator! 

Overview of Blackboard features enabling you to use the same content in more than one course or section.

To succeed as a planet in the 21st century, a strong education for every human being isn't just important, it is essential. An open letter to educators from a college dropout who says his schooling interfered with his education. 

"There's been an on-going industrial-institutional complex at play here for at least the past 30 years that has ensured the continued irrelevance of technology to learning"

I was able to adapt to my situation when the Internet went down, because I knew what I wanted to do, how it could be done, and what I could use to get there. I acted much like teachers do in classrooms every day.

Our blog posts, articles, presentations, workshops, and consulting focus on helping educators weave curriculum, pedagogy, and technology into engaging and rigorous learning.

A gentle reminder to power down at the end of the day

BitLaw is a comprehensive Internet resource on copyright, fair use, and intellectual property law.

The latest partnership to offer free massively open online courses (MOOCs). Good article outlining the history of such initiatives. 

UNESCO. A primer; an easy-to-read, non-technical overview explaining what information literacy means

What would you rather get for your classroom, an iPad 2 and Apple TV or an Interactive Whiteboard?

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The Good Teacher--choose your own path training video

"In the decade since Mary Kay Letourneau's infamous liaison with her sixth-grade student was exposed, the reporting of sexual misconduct cases among teachers has proliferated. The amount of media attention - to women teachers in particular - has increased because the public is titillated and baffled by such cases of aberrant female sexuality. This is a qualitative case study of two high school English teachers, Hannah and Kim, who each had a sexual relationship with a student. Their cases are examined, along with those of Letourneau and Heather Ingram, two headline-heavy teachers whose backgrounds and patterns of behavior within the relationships are similar to Hannah's and Kim's."

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