Finding Dulcinea and Sweet Search are my two favorite Web 2.0 finds this week. There is also a great Guide to Web Searches! I think all educators will find these tools quite useful. Check them out!
What a great resource filled with so much information about 21st Century Educational Technology and Learning! There is so much information on this wiki about Web 2.0 collaboration tools. What a gold mine!
This would be a great tool to assist special educators and special education teams including parents in communicating regularly. It also visually shows the progress on IEP goals. It would make progress monitoring so much easier. It would also encourage measurable goals and documentation.
Goalbook brings a student's team around their individual learning plan
This is a great resource by ASCD to help teachers assess those higher-order thinking skills such as analysis, evaluation, creation, logic, reasoning, judgment, problem solving, creativity, and creative thinking.
This is a resource that explains that students who can only read text but not analyze, synthesize and utilize that information are still considered illiterate! The resource reviews a program that was put together called Digital Youth Network (DYN) and how this organization empowers young people with critical digital literacy skills that make them academically and professionally competitive.
Critical thinking is the underlying skill needed for a student to be able to develop information and media literacy. Thus, I chose an article entitled "Assignments that promote critical thinking."