Jeff Utecht's Public Library

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No question that how we manage information and how we teach students to manage it will be a huge part of our lives. It is already. I refuse to engage in conversations about "the good old days" in which we usually look back and attribute fonder and more positive memories about the past that we grew up in. It doesn’t really matter anyway. It’s never going to be like that. If, however, you want to discuss timeless values and characteristics that may be forgotten at times, that’s worth my time. I hope these are some timeless principles that I can get better at implementing.

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Internet Education Learning

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PE teacher talks about how he uses Google Docs with students to record fitness scores.

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Great video on the the social revolution

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It’s uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers.
It’s uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail.
It’s uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.
It’s uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

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Education at the crossroads

Actually, there isn't one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make.

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Take the Google Earth Learn Quiz. A great site that takes you around Google Earth and helps you to learn how to use Google Earth and it's many features. :)

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Cool website that lets you zoom into a place on Google Earth and then share that location via Twitter.

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A great flickr set of images with quotes

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CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.

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Click on this simple intro to find out how to use the videos. These videos were created for teachers to help them to incorporate technology into their teaching. Just click and a video will open and take you through how to use that technology. To start now, just click on any of the links on the left. My own background is in teaching English, so if you scroll down you will see a special section of ELT videos which are grouped separately.

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The project would have value in a number of ways:

1. Students would have to know the material in the textbook in order to identify what is not in it, so the project would not conflict with learning the course content objectives.

2. Students would learn to read the textbook critically and skeptically, and their discovery of the inevitable biases, assumptions, omissions, under-representations of certain classes/genders/races/religions etc in the texts would surely go far in developing their critical thinking skills and their stance toward authorial authority. The dangerous naivete and blind trust in the written word so common among the young (and not-so-young) would be remedied by such an experience to a considerable degree after a year of such study.

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"Mobile devices aren't distractions in schools; they're machines for learning."

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"Ask yourself, "what do I believe that's wrong? How can I change the way I do things? What works? What doesn't?""

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Scott talks about blogging, and how you have to have "thick skin" if you are going to put yourself out there.

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A Year 6 Wiki on The Boy in the Striped PJs. Great wiki with great discussion as students in this class study the book.

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Great posters that you can print for your school or classroom around how to use different google tools.

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It can be a struggle for parents to juggle their kids’ school events, games and conferences and it’s becoming increasingly common for parents to use web services to manage family calendars. But schools still remain stubbornly disconnected from parents online. While more and more schools are turning to the web as a platform, less than 5% of schools, both public and private, are offering parents internet school calendars.

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