I do! It should be an integral part of a literacy curriculum. Why? Because:
Ok I just feel those are important
Webwatch Poetry workshop
Have you heard of this new free social networking resource? I am exploring it this weekend and let you know what I think.
This is way cool if it works. I am sending a post from my phone.
(It worked – Yipee)
I really like this blog. Especially when I read its Mission Statement:
The objective of TeachPaperless is to help classroom teachers merge Green Thinking and Interactive Technology into their everyday classroom experience. The result is a classroom that not only only uses zero paper, but that recognizes and utilizes the best features of the growing Internet to extend learning opportunities to students. Furthermore, we want to see students benefit from and gain experience in real-life problem solving, task determination, and creative thinking through total immersion in an authentic 21st century digital workspace.
Plus now the author has begun a movement on Twitter called paperless search#paperless Fridays. I encourage you to get on this train.
What are the key elements required for a transformation of teaching and learning through the use of technology? Sean Nash in his nashworld blog cites four pillars:
My favorite Innovate Engine, what’s yours
In the 1990’s, a former student of Bloom, Lorin Anderson, revised Bloom’s Taxonomy and published this- Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy in 2001.Key to this is the use of verbs rather than nouns for each of the categories and a rearrangement of the sequence within the taxonomy.
Great post take your time reading it: Bloom’s Taxonomy Blooms Digitally
November, Zhao, Soloway, Norris, Mckenna are any of these names familiar to you? They have been gurus in educational technology for some time now and you can see them in a new video series.
The Mobile Learning Institute’s film series “A 21st Century Education” profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. “A 21st Century Education” compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.
This is a great resource and I highly recommend you watch them, more than once.
A 21st Century Education A series of 12 short films. Free to view and download
Current Laws and the Internet
Moira speaks with Stanford Law professor Larry Lessig about trying to make our old laws work with the new technology of the Internet.
Interview with Larry Lessing Stanford Law Professor
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This is taken from Seth Godin’s Blog, wish I had said it….
Here’s the thing about the life of Walter Cronkite:
At every turn, he acted as if he had a responsibility to his audience. He didn’t do the right thing because he thought it would help him get ahead and then one day he’d get his share. Instead, he always did the right thing because that’s who he was. No sellouts, no political consulting, no false transparency.
That’s the way it is.
Transparency works if it’s authentic.
At its core, the Strengths Movement is a social movement intended to change how we view ourselves, our children and our world. We have all been conditioned to see weaknesses and mine for deficits. This movement seeks to change that perspective and then apply the positive strengths perspective to our families and our schools.
Here is a video where students who were ready to drop out of school were saved by believing in their strengths not in their school system.
Video: Strengths Results in Schools
