Dave Truss's Public Library

Traditional schools – with their lectures, homework, and report cards – aren’t for everyone. Here are five alternative approaches to education.

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Grading is a waste of time. We only do it in schools and universities. It’s a sorting technique, not truly an evaluation technique. Iterative and formative feedback is what’s really required for learning. This is achieved through active engagement with and contribution to networks of learners.

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A quick guide to help teachers get started with Web 2.0. Stick figures included!
I love the focus on moving beyond the 'Yeah but's. Great design as well.

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Amazing to see the timeline and look at life expectancy compared to income.

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Once bullying is successful it rapidly becomes a habit — neurons that fire together, wire together — address it when it begins.

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Use Webspiration to map out ideas, organize with outlines and collaborate online with teams or colleagues. Webspiration unleashes your creativity, strengthens organizational skills, and transforms your ideas and information into knowledge.

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Taking the tour: There are 16 interactive slides. As you view each slide, roll your mouse over any colored text to highlight special features of each image. Then, click on the arrow to move to the next slide.

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Beautiful
Ideas, issues, knowledge, data – visualized!

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MAKE A...\nOne Minute Movie\nHow to... Story... Direct... Edit... Sound

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ISB VoiceThreads show a variety of different ways to use VT in the classroom

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For students and teachers, the Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs.

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thinking itself somehow leaves the brain and uses a platform outside of the human body. And that, of course, is the Internet and it's the cloud. Very soon we will have the brain in the cloud. And the raises the question about the importance of thoughts. For centuries, what was important for me was decided in my brain. But now, apparently, it will be decided somewhere else.

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Caring Across the Curriculim : The videos you find in this drop.io were put here to accompany this blog post. Not all schools can access YouTube.
http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/caring-across-the-curriculum/

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1-1Teacher caring filter

Awesome scale- 'slider' that lets you zoom in from a coffee bean to a chromosome & mitochondria to a carbon atom.
Good for exponents too.

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How can you contribute?

1. Explore the maps below for the ideas already added, follow the links to open them in a new window.
2. Make sure you are signed in to your Google account.
3. Click on EDIT in the left panel.
4. Zoom close to the city and it’s surroundings. (Don’t forget Streetview)
5. Find some TOPICideas you can see.
6. Add a placemark (use the right colour for the age group it is best for – see purple pin)
7. Explain the activity in the description.
8. Change the title to show how many ideas there are.
9. Send out a Tweet or write a blog post to highlight this resource and encourage others to contribute.

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See the FAQ's
How long should it be? Long enough to cover the important issues satisfactorily, but short enough so as not to cross my low threshold of boredom

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Twitter is not enough. I recommend to all my teacher friends to start or continue blogging:

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"How do you connect to people online?"
By working, writing and thinking in my own space, and making it available to anyone who is interested to watch and follow.
~Stephen Downes describing his 'own space' like I do in my Learning Spaces post: http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/blogs-as-learning-spaces/

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My "Why Blog" video that I made for Sue Waters.

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Saw this a year ago and forgot about it... Dan Meyer at his best... tells a great story about moving to a digital teacher for all the right reasons.

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