Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/01/2012

Acknowledgements - Flat Classroom Book We thanked a lot of people in our book. Here are some - we reprinted our acknowledgements online. We're very grateful and have many to thank. You might want to follow some of these links to some fascinating people. tags: education flatclass ...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 01/31/2012

Twitter for PE Teachers « Mr Robbo – The P.E Geek A great tutorial on how to set up a Twitter account from @mrrobbo . He targeted the information to PE teachers but really, any teacher who wants to start using twitter would benefit from this. If you are a PE teacher, you'll want to follow @ThePEGeekApps to find new apps to use in your health and physical education courses. ...

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Reaching Everyone with Learning

In the UK, Sky TV is launching an internet based television service. More television channels are going Internet based. They'd better - with youtube channels and other channels coming through the Net and our Roku boxes, I now watch BBC shows like the awesome Sherlock Holmes series and movies from other countries. Borders don't mean so much....

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/31/2012

Why Urban, Educated Parents Are Turning to DIY Education - The Daily Beast The homeschooling movement is growing. This hidden element of the edreform movement may have more impact than you think. Also, just because parents are doing it, are they learning?"There are an estimated 300,000 homeschooled children in America’s cities, many of them children of secular, highly educated professionals...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 01/30/2012

100th Day of School Do you celebrate the 100th day of school? My friend Jerry Blumengarten has curated a ton of great ideas for you. tags: education lessonplans teaching Charles Dickens Lesson Plans and resources Charles Dickens birthday is February...

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Edu app news: apps, ebooks, and sites for your classroom #mlearning 01/30/2012

1:1 in Practice at Sinarmas World Academy This teacher is using iTunes producer to write books for her students in Indonesian and has run into trouble, however, here is her advice with screenshots and graphics. Some very practical advice to those writing free ibooks for their students. tags: education apple edapp ...

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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 01/30/2012

Harnessing Gaming for the Classroom - NYTimes.com Nice article in the New York Times about game based learning. (Hat tip Larry Ferlazzo's Twitter stream.)"Speaking at the Learning Without Frontiers conference in London last week, he said that computer games stimulate the brain’s reward system to produce dopamine, a chemical “which helps orient our attention and enhances the making of connections...

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Spoon Chucking our Life and Learning out the Back

"Sometimes we throw more out the back door with a spoon than we can bring in the front door with a wheelbarrow," said my Poppa Adams. (My great-grandfather.)I've been thinking about this saying and how it applies to my classroom, my pocketbook, my life. I guess it is another version of the "small holes sink big ships" kind of thinking.ClassroomAre...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/30/2012

Live Interview Tuesday, January 31st - David Loertscher on Physical and Virtual Learning Commons and Building Personal Learning Environments David Loertscher is an inspiring, brilliant researcher who has written some great books on the learning commons and the evolution of the library. He is an expert. You'll want to join this free interview at 5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern. Librarians and administrators...

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 01/30/2012

Chapter 1 Introduction - Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds - Flat Classroom Book Here are the resources from the first chapter of the Flat Classroom book along with the first chapter.  tags: education flatclass news Book Features - Flat Classroom Book...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/29/2012

Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China - NYTimes.com There is a human cost when manufacturing is outsourced to places that do not respect human rights. This article is making the rounds in light of Apple's stellar financial performance but it can be related to other companies too. Overseas reall means "no one sees" and thus no one cares. We should care about human beings being...

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eBooks and Book News (weekly)

Gadgetbox - Apple vs. the textbook: Can education go paperless? Apple's move into textbooks. Perhaps bumpy at first but with lots of potential. I have seen a lot of favorable thoughts with the Apple announcement. Here is a note from MSNBC I thought expressed a concern of many. Great article about the announcement that is balanced and not just fanboy worship that we get from many sites. "....

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 01/27/2012

5 Ways Teachers Can Raise Standardized Test Scores | Education Is My Life This teacher reflects on the practices he feels have raised test scores in his classroom. Test scores are a fact and until it is changed at the top, teachers in the classroom have to work within that environment. tags: teaching testing ...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/27/2012

The Press Association: Brown wants global education fund Move to global education fund but funding is hard to come by. This article implies it is easier to raise money for diseases than to educate people. That is sad. "All 193 United Nations member states are signed up to a Global Millennium Goal for primary school education to be accessed by every child by 2015, agreed at the New York Millennium...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 01/25/2012

Circus Physics | Classroom | Circus | PBS Circus physics videos from PBS. (Hat tip to Richard Byrne for this great set of videos.) There are 8 short videos that use circus performers to teach physics concepts. tags: education lesson lessonplans teaching physics stem science_teacher...

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Edu app news: apps, ebooks, and sites for your classroom #mlearning 01/25/2012

PowerSchool Parent - Pearson School Systems We will enable this next year at our school but PowerSchool parent is an app with many downloads. This is the link to the itunes store. tags: edapp eduapp (Good) Free App of the Day! LEGO App 4+ - Educational Apps For Kids ...

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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 01/25/2012

IQ Drops When You’re In a Group | Psych Central News IQ is linked to social context. Does this mean mainstreaming is wrong? Right? Depending on who you are? ". Provocative new research discovers small-group dynamics can lower the expression of IQ in some susceptible people. In the study, researchers determined IQ is significantly linked to social context." IQ depends upon social context?...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/25/2012

Vim - Applidium This app is interesting not onky because it is a very simple free text editor bit it is open source "charityware." I cannt recall hearning the term charityware but they have a suggested charity they would like you to donate to if you like the app. That is a great idea. tags: education news ...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 01/24/2012

4 Sites for Free Vintage Photographs — Life Scoop Four great sites to find vintage photographs. For presentations, activities, and authentic learning. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. tags: teaching photographs lesson plans Drive to...

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Edu app news: apps, ebooks, and sites for your classroom #mlearning 01/24/2012

How to Add Goodreads to Your Facebook Timeline - GalleyCat I love Goodreads and now have a reason to go back more often. Here is how you can integrate it into your Facebook with the new Open graph service. This may become the book review mechanism of the future, linking with our friends. tags: Education edapp eduapp ...

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The Sweet Smell of Success Starts at Home (part 3)

Student success starts at home, but it can be tough navigating the waters of learning. In the first post in this series, I shared the facts about how success starts at home, in the last post we covered the first three items in my list of 10 tips for starting student success at home. This is a series I wrote for the Lifetime Channel that I'm also posting here on my blog. 10 Tips for Starting Student Success at Home (4-6)4 - Success...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/24/2012

Facebook Announces Tight Integration of 60 Apps to Timeline, More on the Way The full list of the 60 apps in Open Graph. Time to start testing (and unblocking Facebook.) tags: education Faceboik news Grockit The social study hall linking you with...

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