Dave Truss's Public Library

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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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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2006... What if we didn't let pods in the classroom. A great look back at quotes that I've used in presentations to emphasize that we are not doing any good if you try to hold on to the way things 'were' rather than looking to the future and asking 'what if' - see the opportunities not the obstacles!

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Design is sooo important.
I'm not sure how I will use this in a presentation... but I will!

"Mr.Clause brings a young lad up to the North Pole who has reached the age of disblief, and is trying to take Christmas away from all the little boys and girls around him."

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As well as the school going through a massive rebuilding programme, they have also introduced a set of iPod touches into one year 4 class, for each child, to see what happens.

All the touches are networked through an Apple Airport Extreme and out onto the internet through the school’s connection. It is not every day you see this sort of thing.

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Interesting comment discussion about my Brave New World Wide Web Video

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I teach, therefore I blog.
David Truss

Not a brilliant quote, but funny to find as an identifying source of 'who I am' on ZoomInfo - lol

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For all those people that say, "Hey, you are good with computes, can you help me do this?"

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According to an ancient Greek philosopher, scientist and healer all matter is comprised of four elements: earth, water, fire and air and associated these four elements with gods and goddesses of Greek mythology. In more contemporary cosmologies these elements have been used to relate and contrast ideas of substance, feelings, energy and thought respectively.

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When I saw Jeremy Davis recently, he told me of an educator who uses cell phones in the classroom. In fact, this teacher requires that the cell phone be out and ON the desk. In plain site. Not hidden in a pocket or backpack. So if the student is using it, the teacher KNOWS. And if the student is using it when they shouldn’t… Well, that’s when there are consequences.

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as Steve Dembo mentions "here we are with millions of dollars in technology that’s being paid for by the parents VOLUNTARILY… and most schools refuse to leverage it because of outdated policies and teachers that don’t want to modify their own classroom management strategies."

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Norwegian post:
"I think these are exciting ideas, but I do not know if I completely agree that teachers should be friends with their students on Facebook. I think that it is important that young people have a place where the teacher does not "monitor"..."

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RT @budtheteacher: We can never know the totality of our influence in the world, or what conversations happen in response to our work.

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