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Through a  Tweet from @HeidiHayesJacob, I found the Ning of the Curriculum 21 book, I recently recommended.
One video uploaded by Heidi of Alan November, a contributor to the book, immediately caught my eye.
He says:
We have to stop spoon feeding kids curriculum tests and homework. They need to be self directed. They need to be life [...]

Cross posted on TechLearning Advisor Blog
I believe in sharing. Really I do… I would like to propose a Challenge to Share…for two reasons…
Image licensed under Creative Commons by ryanr (Thanks for sharing!)
Sharing is defined on Wikipedia as:
Sharing is the joint use of a resource or space.
Reason 1:
Many in the blogger- and Twittersphere are realizing and [...]

Re)Imagining Social Media & Technology in Teacher Education with Alec Couros and Dean Shareski.

Conversation Description:
Dean Shareski and Alec Couros have been teaching technology and social media related courses in a teacher education program at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. Over the last couple of years, we have focused on social and participatory learning [...]

Leadership 2.0: Who Do We Need Our Leaders To Be? with Chris Lehmann

Conversation Description:
If educators cannot successfully integrate new technologies into what it means to be a school, then the long identification of schooling with education, developed over the past 150 years, will dissolve into a world where the students with the means and the [...]

I was thrilled to meet Laura Malbogat last week while at the Curriculum Mapping conference. Laura is the curriculum writer for Think Global School. A new type of school, that will open with 15 students for the 2010/2011 school year. These students will travel with their teachers over the next four years (12 trimesters) to [...]

The Edublog Awards 2009 are open for nomination!
This is our chance to nominate and celebrate
the achievements of edubloggers, twitterers, podcasters, video makers, online communities, wiki hosts and other web based users of educational technology.
Here are the categories, I would like to nominate the following individuals:

Best individual blog- Kim Cofino- Always Learning Blog  http://mscofino.edublogs.org/
Best individual tweeter- [...]

It is time to dust off the old spiral bound curriculum guide and take a good look at it. Can a document like this still serve the needs of our school today?
Are there new ways to make this curriculum guide a tool that works with and for the teachers and our school?
I could already hear [...]

I love collaborative slideshows. It is a way to easily collect resources, ideas, and images  from a wide variety of contributors.
Tom Barret, the king of  the  “Interesting Ways to…” slideshows got me hooked on the potential.Go to his website to see all shows embedded on one page.
Thank you to Lisa Thumann for compiling the links [...]

During my first year of teaching, I also assembled a teaching portfolio of my work. I wanted evidence of my work in planning, in the classroom, at professional development opportunities as well as projects I created and participated in. I wanted to grow my portfolio as my teaching experience grew. I used a binder and [...]

As I am attempting to grasp the magnitude of how to be/become/ grow into a piece of the puzzle that helps start (?)/develop and eventually complete a shift of our schools to better prepare and help students learn “TODAY”. (P.S. I am getting a little tired of the “21st century” label, since we are almost [...]