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1. Excellence in schooling requires a vigilant focus on learning - and, specifically, learning for understanding. 2. All education is local. 3. Schooling needs to be grounded in more authentic forms of learning. 4. Education succeeds if and only if everyone in schools gets constant and powerful feedback, and is obligated to seek it and consider it.

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"The following 50 online university professors on Twitter worth following have a large number of followers for a reason — they are worth following!"

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"These apps are all educational in nature and will have you learning about math, science, geography, history, English, and foreign languages; help strengthen your skills with brain exercises and quizzes; provide reference material; and offer opportunities to boost your productivity so you can devote more time to your studies."

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This is a phenomenal idea! Using Google Maps Street View to illustrate a story of your life. What a fun student activity!

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"With Gliffy online diagram software, you can easily create professional-quality flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more.

Our online diagram editor makes it easier than ever to create great looking drawings. "

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"An urban sociologist, Noguera’s scholarship and research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the urban environment. Noguera has served as an advisor and engaged in collaborative research with several large urban school districts throughout the United States. He has also done research on issues related to education and economic and social development in the Caribbean, Latin America and several other countries throughout the world."

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"The OER Center for California provides support for community college educators to find, create, remix, use, and share openly licensed learning content. Together, as knowledge workers, we can learn to share...and share to learn."

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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is a public voice of mathematics education, providing vision, leadership, and professional development to support teachers in ensuring mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students. With 100,000 members and 250 affiliates, NCTM is the world’s largest organization dedicated to improving math education in preK‑12.

Illuminations is designed to:

* Provide Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students.
* Provide materials that illuminate the vision for school mathematics set forth in Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.

Illuminations is part of the prestigious Verizon Thinkfinity program.

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"This wiki was created to easily help educators find other educators on Twitter that have the same interests as them (that teach in the same content area). Check out the list of educators on the pages linked below and add your Twitter name to the appropriate list too. "

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"Take your old worksheets, slide shows, and web quests and add a twist of Google to make creative, collaborative, and engaging lessons!"

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"Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web."

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"My Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development."

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"This is the 2009 version of this popular resource. The 2009 Toolbox contains 25 categories of learning tool. Within each tool category are the names of the most popular tools from the emerging 2009 Top Tools for Learning, as selected by learning professionals worldwide. If you wnat to discuss the tools, join the 25Tools Ning Community."

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"One of the questions posed was how those in academia can best put the social web to work for themselves. Far beyond Facebook and LinkedIn, how can this community harness the Internet to be smarter, more efficient, and more productive? Read on for our top five ideas."

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"During the last six or so years I have created a number of 'how-to' documents and presentations for a variety of web based and related technologies. They are available from the various workshop web pages however I thought it might prove helpful to link to all the documents from a single page. Some of my workshop participants have referred to these documents as 'cheat sheets'."

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"Below are 20 blogs that have taught us a few things, made us laugh, made us cry, and reminded us that we are not alone in this sometimes stress-inducing, always awe-inspiring profession."

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Twitter has been the single best source of my 'professional development' as a 'retired' Teacher, but continuing early childhood educator. My Twitter Network has become my daily source of up-to-date educational information, strategies, techniques, websites, thoughts, questions and answers, ideas and laughs.

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It also contains tips on learning languages, language-related articles, quite a large collection of useful phrases in many languages, multilingual texts, a multilingual book store and an ever-growing collection of links to language-related resources.

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The educational possibilities through Second Life allow teachers and employers to reach out to students beyond their traditional classrooms and school districts, expose young children to global issues and new friends around the world, design their own avatars and environments for highly customized training sessions and interactive discussions, practice real-world skills and manage real-life situations in a safe environment, and most of all keep students engaged in a technologically-driven society

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This section of my Web site contains collections of information on topics essential to understanding instructional technology and its application to teaching and learning.

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