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Archive of links to educational websites for parents, students, educators, and general interest sites.

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Blogs for/by educators.

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Very interesting article regarding the need for change in schools.

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Great list of education-related blogs.

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Link to overview of questions that should be asked for changes impacting US education.

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Interesting perspective on changing educational opportunities.

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Discuses impact of online education.

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Comprehensive list of education blogs; alphabetical by category; includes principal and administrator blogs.

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Treasure trove of data sources about educational issues.

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Explanation about Open Source apps and impact on schools.

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Question: Will Web 2.0 be an integral part of K-12 education? If we assume that the best predictor of the future is the past, then the answer is "no." Web 2.0 is new, but the structure and assumptions underlying its use and benefits, as outlined by Steve Hargadon in this forum, are not new. At the heart of Hargadon's vision - and Michael Wesch's - is the collaborative student project, and this idea has been prominent in American education since 1919 ...

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PBS Teachers provides PreK-12 educational resources and activities for educators tied to PBS programming and correlated to local and national standards and professional development opportunities delivered online.

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The new classroom is about information, but not just information. It's also about collaboration, about changing roles of student and teacher, and about challenges to the very idea of traditional authority. It may also be about a new cognitive model for learning that relies heavily on what has come to be called "multitasking." Many educators voice ambivalence about the power of educational technologies to distract students and fragment their attention.

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TED videos are always interesting. This list identifies 25 TED talks for educators.

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I have to start this by saying that I am an unabashed disciple of Michael Wesch, who's participating in this forum, and the methods he demonstrates so vividly in his videos. I didn't start out looking for any guru but encountered Wesch's videos while I was struggling myself, as a novice educator, with the institutionalized boredom of my students and their constant absorption in their laptops during class. Before I got to Wesch's notion of a crisis of significance, I had probed my students about exactly what was going on with them, and it was clear that they had been bored for years.

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Summary of study commissioned by the National School Boards Association about using social networking in schools. Includes recommendations.

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Links to ideas for using Twitter in education

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