Sat.Sep 03, 2011 - Fri.Sep 09, 2011

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From The Shameless Podcast Promotion Department.

The Web20Classroom

'Recently, I had the honor of being featured along with my good friend Eric on the Teacher Cast Podcast. We talked about a wide range of issues including boosting student productivity with certain types of technologies, the impact of mobile devices on the classroom, apps for learning and more. You can list it to here or if you want you can head over to iTunes and listen to it at your leisure on your favorite device.

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Resources for Teaching About September 11th

EdTechSandyK

'With the 10 year anniversary of September 11th just one week away, it is difficult to imagine any classroom in the United States not discussing a day that challenged and in some ways forever changed our country. It is possible that the events of September 11th will be discussed in other parts of the world, too, as most parts of the global community were eventually touched in some way by the events which transpired that fateful Tuesday.

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Live Tuesday Sept. 13 with Howard Gardner

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Tuesday, September 13th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Harvard professor and well-known author Howard Gardner. In particular, we are going to talk about the new edition of his 1991 book, The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach , looking at school reform from the perspective of cognitive science and his work on multiple intelligences.

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New York Philharmonic Kidzone

SpeechTechie

'Cultural and educational institutions often produce websites that are wonderful language-eliciting experiences for kids. Explore the New York Philharmonic Kidzone website and see if you can design some lessons about music and language. The Instrument Storage Room and Music Match Instruments (in games section) are good explorations of subcategories and specific instruments (aligning with the music curriculum).

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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New Posted Resources 09/08/2011

The Web20Classroom

'Apps for Project-Based Learning tags: apps projectbasedlearning ipad pbl favorite What Does Challenge Based Learning Look Like? tags: challengebasedlearning pbl favorite Edmodo - Extending Learning Beyond the Classroom tags: Edmodo favorite The 7 Golden Rules of Using Technology in Schools tags: technology favorite techintegration EdTech TechLearning: 14 Ways to improve Your School Web site tags: Website favorite A Model of Learning Objectives-Revised Blooms tags: bloomstaxonomy favorite Tutori

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5 Goals for the School Year

The Electric Educator

'Every year I pick five professional goals to work on during the school year. This marks my third year of this process: 2009-2010 Goals. 2010-2011 Goals. So, here it goes, my goals for the 2011-2012 school year 1. iPad Coaching This year my school, Southfield Christian is implementing a 1:1 iPad program in the high school. Staff were given three days of training in the spring before summer vacation and were instructed to play with and use their iPads throughout the summer months.

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Categorizing and identifying CMC tools

Connecting 2 the World

Computer Mediated Communication does not exist in a vacuum. CMC consists of both the tools of communication (apps, software, equipment) and the process of communication (sending and receiving of messages). It is important, therefore, to try to distinguish how different tools affect communication. A starting point for this blog should be how to make distinctions and analyze a specific tool's affordances.

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Learning Should Be Messy.Right?

The Web20Classroom

'I was at a school recently. (I won''t say where to protect the innocent. Well they aren''t so innocent, but nonetheless.) And I saw this: I think it was the sad faces on it that really got to me. So what do you think was the first thing I did when I took said picture? Yep, posted it to Twitter. Just to share. And the reactions I got were pretty much universal.

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Week of September 5, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page.

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Food for thought

Learning with 'e's

Gather round everyone, it's Day 2 of the ALT-C 2011 Conference in Leeds. I'm meeting lots of folk today and doing a number of interviews, while trying to fit in as many of the paper and panel sessions as possible without keeling over. Sadly, my laptop Keith and I are on our own now. My faithful iPod Iggy passed away last night, and is now in a much better place (at the bottom of my case).

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Turning up the volume

Learning with 'e's

We have enjoyed an interesting, intense and invigorating few days at the ALT-C event in Leeds this week. It was wonderful to encounter face to face so many people who I have previously got to know on Twitter. The days were filled with papers and demonstrations, symposia and workshops, some excellent, some thought provoking, and a few that could perhaps do with a little more development.

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Live Thursday Sept. 15 with Sam Chaltain on "Faces of Learning"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Thursday, September 15th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Sam Chaltain, DC-based writer and education activist, on his new book Faces of Learning: 50 Powerful Stories of Defining Moments in Education. Sam was a guest last year on FutureofEducation.com to talk about his previous book, American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community , and we''ll continue our conversation on education using his collection of the personal learning stories

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Broadband is a human right

Learning with 'e's

The 2011 ALT-C Conference is being held at the University of Leeds on a campus that is as convoluted as the maze of arguments and discussions we are enjoying. This year's event is co-chaired by John Cook and Sugata Mitra, and the programme and as always, is packed with far too many choices, you are bound to miss something you would really like to see.