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
Category: Suggested Reading
Tough Times Call for Frugal Choices
Here’s some Suggested Reading to help those facing tight budgets.
- Don’t Worry, Be Scrappy: Good, Cheap Tech for Schools, Cloud Computing and More – School Library Journal
- How to Get Free Classroom Supplies – Edutopia
- One Principal Knows What to Do With Stimulus Money. Do Others? – Washington Post
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.
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Please share additional charitable organizations and resources for helping classrooms in the comments.
Suggested Reading for 04/07/2009
Suggested Reading for 03/13/2009
Suggested Reading for 03/04/2009
Suggested Reading for 02/21/2009
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)
Suggested Reading for 02/02/2009
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)
Suggested Reading for 12/17/2008
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.
Suggested Reading for 12/14/2008
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach’s Letter to My Colleagues and Scott McLeod’s corresponding Slide – Teachers and Technology
Seven Brilliant Things Teachers Do with Technology
10 Digital Writing Opportunities You Probably Know and 10 You Probably Don’t
Freedom and One to One Computing
Suggested Reading for 12/06/2008
Our Newest Community Service Project – The Reno Bike Project Project – Just one of the many great things going on in Brian Crosby‘s classroom. Perhaps it will give those interested in The Challenge some ideas.
Seven Mistakes Teachers Make with Technology
So What Is the Future of Schools?
The Educational Debate – Tone Matters
Why You Need a Personal Learning Network
Give until It Feels Good – Perhaps another idea for those interested in The Challenge.