" Time is always scarce, yet more things are coming our way.  Would I be comfortable that schools produced a student did not know cursive but could effectively communicate using a computer or mobile device? Probably. Would I be comfortable if a student knew cursive but had no idea how to communicate over a computer? Nope.  Would I prefer they could do both? Absolutely."

One year ago, I began blogging. It was my first attempt to try something new in quite a while; to share some ideas with the world and to learn for the sake of the students who learn from me.

""Take a look at the smartphone in your hand," Jaime Casap, Global Education Evangelist for Google, told the crowd during his keynote at the FETC 2013 conference in Orlando Wednesday. "That smartphone is just a phone to a kid. And to many kids, it isn't even a phone." Casap pulled his own phone from his pocket. "What you have in your hand is going to be their Commodore 64. It's going to be their Apple IIe. When they're in their twenties, it's going to be the thing they buy at a thrift store and put on a shelf in their hipster apartment just because it's cool to have one." That's the generation, he said, that's coming into our schools, and we need to be ready for that."

"No amount of tech or any other educational innovation can make a difference if the users aren't prepared to take advantage of the opportunity."

top 25 lists of a range of subjects

Great idea for replacing worksheets in a life cycle unit in G1

For those who like to tinker! "It might be fun for you or for students to make do-it-yourself styluses. CNET shows you how to make a stylus in two minutes using a Q-tip and foil. Make Use Of has instructions for constructing a styles from foam, wire, and an old pen. Students at Anastasis Academy made with own iPad styluses for less than 10 cents using a sponge and wire. "

an idea for an early years classroom 

Comprehensive (and some what overwhelming) resource for tricks and tips and tutorials for the iPad

an older research paper (2010) but puts forward a case for the use of diigo

this could be useful for any class story writing activities, student create individual books / chapters that are then joined into a class book

Thereisadifferencebetweenpersonalizationanddifferentiationandindividualization.Oneislearner-centered;theothersareteacher-centered

online etiquette, privacy and safety, permanence, digital citizenship, texting and messaging basics, tech isn't everything, addiction, when mistakes are made, tech as a teaching tool, the value of tech

very interesting read

International papers start around page 13, could be great for a quick glimpse on what is happening around the world