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The job title “21st Century Learning Specialist” does not give the same clear picture to many people as  the title of 2nd grade , Librarian or Spanish teacher might. I get many blank looks when I answer the innocent question of “So, what do you do? I blogged about my last Job Title “What Does [...]

25 Killer (iPad) Apps | Learning is Change. The following list of Apps are what make the iPad essential to me. They are what make it more than just a toy (tags: ipad apps education) A Twitteraholic’s Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter | The Edublogger Educators are connecting with each other on [...]

Vicky Davis wrote Fail Forward- Move Forward a few weeks ago. I was inspired by an art teacher’s experiment on his grading system that she describes. The ceramics teacher told the left half of the room that they would just be graded on the quantity of what they produced. If they had fifty pounds of [...]

A teacher’s heart smiles when students become creative, enthusiastic and take ownership of their work. This was the case with the 4th grade class at my school. Their classroom teacher asked me to introduce podcasts to her class, she and her students took it from there and RAN… with it… I came to their classroom [...]

iStockPhoto CopySpace | creativebits Let's say you want an image with clouds to fill up the whole page of your design and you want to run copy in the very middle of the page horizontally. Normally you would have to go through hundreds of search results to find the images that fit your idea. But [...]

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Aristotle says: Teaching is the highest form of understanding Alan November, in the book Curriculum 21 by Heidi Hayes Jacobs,  lists “Tutorial Designers” as one of the six new roles to develop empowered learners. If these two educators , separated by over 2000 years in history, are right… then we should be pushing students to [...]

Death by PowerPoint (tags: presentations presentation_makeover) Extreme Presentation Makeover (tags: presentation_makeover) Virtual Manipulatives (tags: manipulatives smartboard math elementary_school) Introducing Google Docs to the Class | edte.ch (tags: googledocs collaboration)

The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Need for creativity in classroom The Student’s Prayer Don’t impose on me what you know, I want to explore the unknown And be the source of my own discoveries. Let the known be my liberation, not my slavery. The world of your truth can be my limitation; Your [...]

My TEDxNYED Talk – Creating School 2.0 – Practical Theory Chris Lehmann (tags: school_2.0) Illuminations: Shape Sorter What other relationships can be described using Venn diagrams? Use this tool to explore many different geometric properties and shapes. (tags: geometry math interactive smartboard) Top Ten Reasons You Should Attend a Barcamp Description of new kinds of [...]