Yarmouth Staff

Great Reads for Educators

Ask most people what comes to mind when they think about "kids today". If you've sampled the literature about Gen Y or The Millennials, you're likely to hear that kids today are over-corrected, entitled, arrogant, irresponsible, directionless, and apathetic. With twitter-sized attention spans-these kids lack values, character, and basic civility. They have been labeled, tagged, earmarked, and characterized in a multiplicity of ways, but nothing sets them apart more from other generations than the fact that kids of today are most certainly unlike any other generation of kids we have known. As a veteran educator, parent, and mentor; I couldn't agree more. Kids today aren't like they used to be, and I've never been more proud or excited to share with you why.

Setting up a classroom for technology devices. The focus is bring your own device, but this would work for any technology classroom. Some great ideas here.

Connecting Project-Based and Blended Learning

Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning     The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

List of Education groups in Diigo

Used wisely, technology empowers students to take responsibility for their own learning. In Leonardo's Laptop, Ben Shneiderman provides teachers with a powerful framework, Collect-Relate-Create-Donate (CRCD), for designing student-centered learning opportunities using computers. In particular, Shneiderman's CRCD framework emphasizes the importance of the social aspects of learning in generating creative work. In CRCD projects, students research information, work collaboratively to create a meaningful product that demonstrates their learning, and contribute that project to a larger learning community. Shneiderman designed the Collect-Relate-Create-Donate framework as a vehicle for preparing young people for a 21st century world where innovation, creativity, and collaboration will be more highly prized than retention and repetition.

mapping 2.0 & statistics resources

Video Tutorials for some popular Web 2.0 sites: Animoto, Google Docs, Voicethread etc.

Weather Graphs and Maps. Nice Mashup!