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New Posted Resources 02/16/2012

The Web20Classroom

id=ddwwqq6t_22g7rmsjgk tags: google google apps favorite Internet Safety for High School Kids Tips | Common Sense Media tags: internet safety high school favorite EdTech Toolbox: Web 2.0 Tools by Task tags: web2.0 tools favorite Posted from Diigo.

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Big Jump in Use of Games, Videos in K-12 Schools, Survey Finds

Marketplace K-12

. “The explosion in teacher interest and usage of videos and game-based learning could be a harbinger of a new awakening for digital learning” said Julie Evans, the CEO of Project Tomorrow, in a statement. A growing number of teachers, meanwhile, are hungry for PD on how to integrate games in their classrooms.

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Lessons from Digital Learning Day

Educator Innovator

Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort. By 2012, it had risen to 88 percent.

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Powerful Learning is Inquisitive and Reflective

Digital Promise

Researcher Mary Helen Immordino-Yang suggests that , “Simple reflection strategies like Project Zero’s ‘I used to think … Now I think …’ help kids become more aware of their own knowledge structures and how to explicitly rework their beliefs.” Want to know more about Powerful Learning? Immordino-Yang, M. Christodoulou, J.

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A Conference Not to Be Missed

A Principal's Reflections

The annual Edscape Conference will once again be held at New Milford High School in New Milford, NJ on Saturday October 13, 2012. Hundreds of educators from over seven different states and Canada will once again descend upon my school to learn together and network in an effort to move their respective school cultures down an innovative path.

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Learn how the Alliance for Excellent Education can help you and your students! | @All4ed

TeacherCast

Jeff sits down with Terri Schwartzbeck and Sam Patterson to discuss the Alliance for Excellent Education, Digital Learning Day and how you can have a Future Ready School. Digital Learning Day promotes the effective use of modern day tools afforded to every other industry to improve the learning experience in K-12 public schools.

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Can These New Colleges Help Solve Higher Education’s Equity Problem?

Edsurge

Loosely defined as affordable programs with strong learning and career outcomes, hybrid colleges often share three design principles: intensive wrap-around student support that directly meets student needs; digital learning programs (often competency-based); and sustainable funding that does not ask students to carry significant debt.

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