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10 ways to use youtube in the classroom (archive work, allow depth in a subject, push strong students ahead, help struggling students, review for exams etc

Nice list of tech train modules for PD

Teaching is a compassionate profession, and caring about kids' feelings should be a crucial part of helping them learn.

How to Make Better Teachers Why blog?

"Basically, just honest to goodness, really decent human beings… Perhaps an old fashioned idea. No business degree needed for this part. Just the hard work of self reflection, personal growth and continuous striving to be accepting, caring, compassionate and trustworthy."

re popularity of Waldorf / Steiner schools in the US at the moment

fascinating reading - which I will be using as I order books for the library - e.g., course reading lists by David Foster Wallace, WH Auden, etc.

a summary of how connected educators volunteered "on a tweet" to stream into our school and provide a LIVE professional development opportunity

"Flat World Knowledge is a textbook publisher, focusing on (mostly entry-level) college textbooks. From its beginning until the end of 2012, Flat World Knowledge licensed all of its books under a Creative Commons by-nc-sa 3.0 license, allowing anyone who so desired to copy them, give them away, or modify them, as long as they acknowledged the authors, released the copies under the same license, and didn't do so for commercial gain."

Great read about the Touch Screen Generation & technology. Challenges the status quo in a well articulated way.

"Children have infinite potential. Play is a natural vehicle for learning. Joy is most often found in simple things. Give children the space to create and the time to grow. Curiosity, imagination and creativity are timeless tools. Asking children questions is more powerful than telling them things. All children have basic needs, such as love and belongingness. Never underestimate the power of one caring adult in a child's life. Persistence, persistence, persistence pays off. Expect the unexpected. We need to strive to make learning transformational. There is a child in all of us."

See his "Technology in Education: Four Key Components" slides

Unplugging isn't realistic. Plug in better is a solution. Get rid of the digital distractions with a targeted approach.