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Culture by Tim Cushing Fri, Aug 31st 2012 6:31pm Filed Under: culture, safety, schools Permalink. Common Sense For School Internet Safety Policies from the less-irrational-fear,-more-education dept We talk quite a bit here about the growing pains of various institutions when faced with upstarts like the internet and social media. The usual suspects like the recording industry and newpapers come to mind first, but one of our oldest institutions continues to painfully stumble its way into the future: the educational system.

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7 Sites That Make Programming For Kids Fun By Nick Grantham Published December 14, 2011 17 inShare A recent Ted Talk featuring the charismatic 6th grade programmer Thomas Suarez has shown that programming is a skill that can be learnt at any age. With the huge number of sites and products dedicated to programming for kids, there has never been a better time to get your class coding.

A fantastic tool for teachers and students to create screencasts and screenshots. Teachers and students can annotate over screenshots they take. Implications: Teachers can find any visual stimuli and students can add their comments or solutions over top. Teachers can then grade their responses. Teachers and students can also record instructional tutorials for others to view. So many options here.

A fantastic tool for teachers and students to create screencasts and screenshots. Teachers and students can annotate over screenshots they take. Implications: Teachers can find any visual stimuli and students can add their comments or solutions over top. Teachers can then grade their responses. Teachers and students can also record instructional tutorials for others to view. So many options here.

Between this site and Atomic Learning, you have two great resources that will help you understand more of the ins and outs of moodle.

← New Kickstarter Project Aims To Build Incredibly Interactive Math Lessons Saturday, September 1, 2012 11:45 am, Posted by Jeff Dunn 0 | Trends The Teacher's Quick Guide To Education Technology Topics: edtech, graduating, guide, infographic, mouse, twitter inShare5 Technology has become an integral part of our daily lives: we use it to learn, to shop, to pay bills, and to entertain ourselves. Not surprisingly, younger generations are heavily influenced by computers in a way that changes the way they retain information and the ways they develop opinions about culture.

21st Century Skills - cognitive: critical thinking & analytic reasoning - interpersonal: teamwork and complex communication - intrapersonal: resiliency and conscientiousness. Recommended that we focus more on nonacademic skills. Keen interest in a student's ability to transfer and apply existing knowledge to a problem in a new context.

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5 essential principles to abide by when designing homework for students: - keep it purposeful - demonstrates learning efficiently - create ownership between the content and the student - appropriate to their level of understanding - not one-size-fits-all - aesthetic appeal

5 essential principles to abide by when designing homework for students: - keep it purposeful - demonstrates learning efficiently - create ownership between the content and the student - appropriate to their level of understanding - not one-size-fits-all - aesthetic appeal

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It's all about computers: when they do the calculating, people can work on harder questions, try more concepts, and play with a multitude of new ideas.

YTV - Yet to Verify But...appears to be a great resource for primary school teachers to consult for their particular grade levels' tech integration possibilities.

This infographic provides a nice overview of how teachers and students are using the more popular social media sites. Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, YouTube, Pinterest are included in this connected infographic about how social media is used to connect, notify, teach and curate in the 21st century.

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Excellent resources that inform and promote internet safety. Mark your calendars folks, Internet Safety Day is February 5, 2013.

Great search engine for finding images with creative commons licence

Thanks David! Another great resource! I'll add it to our web.

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