Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/18/2012

Hazeldale Elementary School kids use iPad app to learn pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary | OregonLive.com Using ipads to teach vocabulary. In this mainstream media article, students are using Toontastic to create stories and learn new vocabulary. My students enjoy Puppetpals, another great one to use. tags: teaching ipad ...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/18/2012

Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings - WSJ.com Lots of commotion over Friday's wall street journal report that Google and other advertisers were circumventing Safari's privacy settings on mobile devices and computers. After being contacted by WSJ, Google disabled its code. Basically this means that Google "hacked" safari to track users. This doesn't bode well for...

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/18/2012

Microsoft Tag–Example Resource on E-Safety | Ray Chambers Ray Chambers is a UK teacher doing some fascinating things with Microsoft products like Kinect and Microsoft Tag. I love this lesson plan that links with literacy, creative writing, digital citizenship. You can do this lesson yourself to see how it works. (Another great lesson plan I found on the TES site. A very global site for sharing...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/17/2012

Create a story on e-safety with use of mobile phone This lesson has me intrigued as it uses a mobile phone and Microsoft Tag. I make sure all my students have a windows live id and a google id (using our google apps for domain) so this wouldn't be a problem for me. I like the idea of using mobile phones in esafety lessons. tags: teaching ...

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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 02/17/2012

Create a story on e-safety with use of mobile phone This lesson has me intrigued as it uses a mobile phone and Microsoft Tag. I make sure all my students have a windows live id and a google id (using our google apps for domain) so this wouldn't be a problem for me. I like the idea of using mobile phones in esafety lessons. tags: teaching ...

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Count the Opportunity Cost of Teacher Tasks (Big Little Thing #4)

We talk about cost in monetary terms all the time. No one talks about opportunity cost. Education should start now. This is definitely a very little thing with BIG implications for turning around schools.Opportunity cost is the opportunity you give up when you or your employees work on something else. Teachers have a certain number of hours...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/17/2012

Eye On School Success Free online conferences are an amazing part of the new learning landscape. I'll be presenting at Eye  on School Success in March on Tuesday, March 20 at 4:15 but this is the link to many different presenters at this conference. Todd Whitaker is keynoting this one and Barbara Blackburn is also presenting as well as many other great authors who I don't know personally...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/16/2012

Secondary Maths Collection - Mr Collins’ Maths Sheets - Resources - TES High school math teachers will love these sheets of word problems from the UK. They are attractive and well writtten. You can download and print them. I like how students have formulas on their sheets to help another student with their math problems. These are some of the most popular math resources from this site. ...

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The Age of Encouraging the Aged to stay in education (Big Little Thing #3)

Too many educational leaders are ageists. With life expectancy growing, some of our most productive, wise, caring professionals are going to be older. It is unfair and just wrong to stereotype the "young" as the best teachers and the old as "irrelevant."Grace Adkins, 83 year old Learning Lab Leader who rides her bike 12 miles a nightMrs....

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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 02/16/2012

TES Connect (tesconnect) on Pinterest Here is a great use of pinterest. These teacher boards have been put together with lots of resources for teachers. tags: education teaching learning socialmedia Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/16/2012

kduncan - Korea-USA Spring 2012 Sociology Collaboration Kevin Duncan's Flat Classroom certified teacher project proposal revolves around his current Korea-USA sociology project. If you want to see what students and classrooms are doing with long term relationships, look at this wiki. tags: flatclass education learning ...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/15/2012

TES Connect (tesconnect) on Pinterest Here is a great use of pinterest. These teacher boards have been put together with lots of resources for teachers. tags: education teaching learning socialmedia SAT Preparation - Higher SAT Scores Guaranteed or...

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Big Little Thing #2: Marry the Percentages till Death do you part

When schools (or businesses) brag about percentage increases, I always think:"You'll regret the day you take this course of action."For example, Flat Classroom projects have sustained a 300% growth rate of project participants for the past few years but we stopped counting. Why? It just isn't sustainable. In the first year we had 23 students,...

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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 02/15/2012

kduncan - Korea-USA Spring 2012 Sociology Collaboration Kevin Duncan's Flat Classroom certified teacher project proposal revolves around his current Korea-USA sociology project. If you want to see what students and classrooms are doing with long term relationships, look at this wiki. tags: flatclass education learning ...

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Perspective Detectives

I looked up Cynthia Sandler's email in my gmail this morning and found that on February 14, 2011 she was emailing to see if she could join the Digiteen project. I feel like I've known her for much longer. She was already incredible in her technology prowess and I'd hesitate to stake claim to any of Cynthia's excellence - she did all that on her own. But her knowledge of how to integrate global collaboration into the classroom...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/15/2012

Kaplan Test Prep Online Pressroom » Kaplan Test Prep Launches Free 90-Minute Adaptive SAT® Diagnostic Developed by MIT Graduates to Predict Student Performance This online Turbotest can be taken on computer or ipad using the browser. I'd like to see the final results in it. The biggest question is that if it is that predictive, why not use this sort of adaptive test for the ACTUAL SAT. It...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/14/2012

Presidents Day Collection - Resources - TES President's day is next Monday in the United states. Here is an excellent collection of resources for students of all ages about the United States Presidents. There is also some great information for those who teach about the US government and how the electoral process works. This is perfect timing with the elections coming up. Monday would also...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/14/2012

5 Things Every Teacher Should Be Doing to Meet the CCSS A popular white paper from Lauren Davis at Eye on Education for schools that are using common core. tags: education news common core 'Badges' Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional College...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/13/2012

TES collection St Valentine's Day - Resources - TES Some excellent lesson plans, assembly ideas, and downloadables for Valentine's Day. From math to history, you'll find something for tomorrow. tags: teaching valentine's day kinderchat elemchat mathchat ...

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Big Little Thing #1: The Student Bathroom

Tom Peters is right. You can tell a lot about an organization by looking at the bathroom. The first chapter of The Little Big Things: 163 ways to pursue Excellence, Tom says:"To me a clean and attractive and even imaginative loo is the best..."He's talking about retail shops and he goes on to say that a nice employee restroom is...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/13/2012

NMC Horizon Report > 2012 Higher Ed Edition | The New Media Consortium The 2012 horizon report is out. It reveals the trends for higher education in the next 1-4 years."This year’s NMC Horizon Report identifies mobile apps and tablet computing as technologies expected to enter mainstream use in the first horizon of one year or less. Game-based learning and learning analytics are seen in...

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/13/2012

Eracism 2012 - Application from Schools and Interested Educators Debate is something that many schools have removed from their curriculum. This is a simple way to pull in debate to compete with other schools around the world asychronously using voicethread. It is free and open to middle school classrooms around the world. Here is the application form. tags: ...

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/12/2012

FlatteningClassrooms - home @julielindsay @coolcatteacher @Durff My book wiki 4 an in district group, in case there's use elsewhere http://t.co/WjYDKPoo #flatclass tags: flatclass twitter Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/11/2012

Nerdy Greeting Really a Smart Shake - NYTimes.com This "nerdy" handshake by two Ivy leage basketball players now in the NBA is making rounds. One player opens a book,the other flips imaginary pages, they put on their glasses and put them in their pockets -now ready to play. I like this in many ways. I'm going to study and learn and then put up my glasses and get out there and DO. (My paper...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/10/2012

Lesson: The History of Mardi Gras A 5 lesson unit on Mardi Gras aligned with Illinois state standards. tags: education teaching Mardi Gras info This is the best information on Mardi Gras I've found. "Calling all children to the Mardi gras." Has information on...

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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 02/10/2012

Nerdy Greeting Really a Smart Shake - NYTimes.com This "nerdy" handshake by two Ivy leage basketball players now in the NBA is making rounds. One player opens a book,the other flips imaginary pages, they put on their glasses and put them in their pockets -now ready to play. I like this in many ways. I'm going to study and learn and then put up my glasses and get out there and DO. (My paper...

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/10/2012

Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds Book Review - YouTube Aaron Maurer shares his video review of Julie's and my new book. It may not be news to you, but to hear this review moves me beyond words. tags: education news flatclass flatclassroom Posted from Diigo. The rest of...

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Education needs paper and pavement people

Pavement rubber band (Photo credit: nicolasnova)When surveying writers, I always scrutinize their resume to see if the person is a paper or a pavement kind of person.A paper person has read a lot of paper and perhaps written a lot of paper. He knows the theories and how things should work.She read a lot of studies and may know a lot of people....

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/09/2012

Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds Book Review - YouTube Aaron Maurer shares his video review of Julie's and my new book. It may not be news to you, but to hear this review moves me beyond words. tags: education news flatclass flatclassroom BBC...

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/09/2012

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: K-2 Project Forming Now We're forming our first K-2 Flat Classroom project. Here are the details. tags: education flatclassroom globaled flatclass Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/08/2012

Superhero Unit - comics in the classroom - Resources - TES there is a reason that this resource is going viral over at Tes. This masterful set of lesson uses comic books with a wide range of writing activities: short story, informative, biography, and comic strip. You have lesson plans and instructions for how to use this. Use comics to teach biographics. Many teachers groan about teaching...

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K-2 Project Forming Now

ANNOUNCING! Flat Classroom K-2 project ‘Building Bridges to Tomorrow’Note: As part of our mission, we are piloting new projects with our Flat Classroom certified teachers running as lead innovators. Our goal is to make global collaboration simple and part of what we do. We had kindergarten teachers saying they are ready and we believe them....

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