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August 15, 2012
1. Empowering student agency and voice
- Scott’s slides
- More Than That video project
- Minecraft history project (draw or describe a self-sustainable town)
- Richard’s Rwanda project
- Extreme Biology blog
- Mrs. Cassidy’s Classroom blog
- Pike County, Missouri local history project – class wiki v. Wikipedia
- Math videos: Khan Academy v. students
- Book reviews: Adults v. students
- Book trailers: Publishers v. students
- Quadblogging
- VoiceThread 4 Education wiki (high school science experiments)
- School global connection and collaboration resources
- Some others for you to explore
- Moving beyond electronic worksheets
- Replicative technologies
- Technology and learning spectrum
- TPACK (see also handout)
2. Creating innovators
- Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner
- Scott’s highlights from book
- Videos from book – Wagner, Neal 1, Friedman, Kamen, Alonzo, Bottino, Neal 2
- Herzberg discussion NOTES
- McLeod discussion NOTES (Scott’s slides)
- 8-section notes – BLANK template
3a. Competency-based education, digital technologies, and the Common Core
- NOTES (thank you, Angela Olson!)
3b. Getting unstuck
- NOTES (thank you, Tera Friederich!)
- Web sites that review and share educational iOS apps (including for students with special needs)
Miscellaneous resources
Every educator should have a RSS reader (build your own capacity as learners)
- Kathy’s basket
- Google Reader
- RSS Guide for Educators [a work in progress!]
- Free Technology for Teachers
- Subject-specific blogs (see also Scott’s Delicious tags)
Technology integration resources
- Technology and learning spectrum
- TPACK (see also handout)
- Technology integration matrix
- Learning activity types: wiki and mind map
- Web 2.0 that works
- Teacher needs in anticipation of the instructional use of technology
- Technology, coaching, and community
- Educational technology bill of rights for students
Problem- / Inquiry- / Challenge-based learning resources
- Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA) core values
- Center for Authentic Intellectual Work
- Buck Institute for Education (videos; student testimony and teacher restructuring; technology and PBL)
- College and Work Readiness Assessment (example report)
- Whitfield Career Academy (example projects)
- Discovery and Unlimited (Christchurch, New Zealand)
- Big Picture Learning (podcasts and videos; student testimony and personalization)
- EdVisions (videos; traditional v. self-directed students)
- Envision Schools (PBL in action and success story)
- Expeditionary Learning (stories)
- New Tech Network (videos; solar oven)
- New York Performance Assessment Consortium
- Independent Curriculum Group
- Band of Educators
- CASTLE’s list of exemplary 21st century schools
Standards, frameworks, and reports you should know about
- NCTE 21st century literacy standards
- ISTE essential conditions (see also rubric)
- National Educational Technology Standards (NETS): Administrators, Teachers, and Students
- NAIS Guide for Becoming a School of the Future: PDF or HTML interactive
- See also Kevin Kelly’s 6 Words for the Modern Internet
- See also Scott’s The Future of Learning
CASTLE resources
- Dangerously Irrelevant (Scott)
- Education Recoded (CASTLE directors)
- CASTLE
- Video: Iowa, Did You Know?
- Recommended reading (including Scott’s new book!)
- Recommended viewing
- Other resources
