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Building a Better Teacher – NY Times
US DOE’s new National Educational Technology Plan – US DOE
TN DOE Prepares New Assessment – Tim Childers
I Don’t Think Blocking Networked Learning in Our Schools Is an Option – Darren Draper
Using Maps in an Elementary School Math Lesson – Richard Byrne
Use Drop.io’s Upload Widget to Collect Student Work – Richard Byrne
The Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change. – Pew Research Center
Phished through Twitter – Dr. Leigh Zeitz
The Thin Red Line… – Jenny Luca
Gifted Teacher Wins First STELLAR Award – Huntington News
The Facebook Imperative – TechCrunch
The 21st Century Learning Imperative – THE Journal
‘The Computer Ate My Homework’: How to Detect Fake Techno-Excuses – The Chronicle
10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports – The Apple
Here’s some Suggested Reading to help those facing tight budgets.
Online Charities for Classrooms in Need
There are many online websites aimed at helping teachers, schools and students receive beneficial resources and financial assistance. Here are a couple with which I’m familiar.
Feedback
Please share additional charitable organizations and resources for helping classrooms in the comments.
Is It Alright to Be a Technologically Illiterate Teacher?
Pupils to Study Twitter and Blogs in Primary Schools Shake-up
Suggestions to Presenters from an Audience Member
Using Instant Messaging to Engage Children with Reading Comprehension
Students Interviewing Students over Skype at School
Publish and License Tweets with Creative Commons – What do you think about the idea of licensing our tweets and plurks?
Book Review of The Tales of the Beedle Bard – A fairy tale that takes place in the wizarding world of Harry Potter.
New on YouTube: Collaborative Annotations (Hat Tip to Angela Maiers)
Research Finds that Computers Make Math More Fun
Art Turned Ugly: A lesson in Fair Use
Top Ten Reasons you should use Gmail – by Colette Cassinelli
A Lot of Hulu – Reasons teachers might use Hulu (Hat tip to skipz for Plurking this)
ALA Announces Newbery and Caldecott Medal Winners
The Coming Storm by Chris Lehmann
There are starting to be some stories breaking about what may be the single greatest crisis facing education and our society — college. The recent stories…about the rising cost of college, …scholarships being cut…and the inevitable ramification of the credit crisis on student loans suggest that we are headed to a major crisis of higher education.
Life on the Cutting Edge by Steve Dembo
It’s not unusual when somebody shares a tip with me and then appends it by saying, “But I’m sure you already knew about that already.” I always find that funny because the only reason that I am familiar with so many sites and applications, is because people have learned about them and taken the time to share them! Rarely would I ever be so bold as to say that I was the ‘first’ person to discover something. It’s like we’re playing a giant game telephone, but in a multi-linear fashion.
Now for Some Comic Relief…
The 25 Best Exam Blunders from Times Online
We all have to fail sometimes. But there’s something glorious about failing with style.
News Notes Shared Reader
