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One of the strangest things in this age of young people's empowerment is how little input our students have into their own education and its future. Kids who out of school control large sums of money and have huge choices on how they spend it have almost no choices at all about how they are educated -- they are, for the most part, just herded into classrooms and told what to do and when to do it. When it comes to how we structure and organize our kids' education, we generally don't make the slightest attempt to listen to, or even care, what students think about how they are taught. The disconnect between what students want and what they're receiving is significant. Students have little input into the structure and substance of their own education. The traditional classroom lecture creates massive boredom, especially when compared to the vibrancy of their media-saturated, tech-driven world. But if we were to ask them, we'd learn they prefer questions rather than answers, sharing their opinions, group projects, working with real-world issues, and teachers who speak with them as equals rather than as inferiors.

Tags: edutopia, Learning, twentyfirstcentury, prensky, digital_literacy, digital_citizenship, digital_media, education on 2008-08-18 and saved by48 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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awesome collection of education debates in educational issues

Tags: debatepedia, debate, education, issues on 2008-08-17 -All Annotations (0) -About

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This site contains fantastic resources for understanding the laws and advocating for special needs students. I have purchased many of their materials and found them really valuable.

Tags: law, disability, wrightslaw, education, disabilities, advocacy, special-education, specialeducation, specialneeds, legal on 2008-08-15 and saved by9 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Excellent blog with links and resources from an experience special education teacher.

Tags: smartboards, education, specialeducation, specialneeds, 21stcenturysped on 2008-08-15 and saved by10 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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online e-learning course management system that provides blogs and other features similar to Modle and Blackboard-free

Tags: web2.0, studeous, teaching, education on 2008-08-14 and saved by37 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Latest versions of NETS standards for students, teachers and administrators.

Tags: iste, standards, nets, technology, edTech, education, technology_standards, 21stcenturyskills on 2008-08-12 and saved by32 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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5 questions to answer-scoring provides score and correct answers.

Tags: olympics, summer2008, trivia, education on 2008-08-09 and saved by15 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative:

* planning of education projects linked with the development of free content;
* development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning;
* work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs.
* networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

Tags: wiki, education, elearning, web2.0, community, collaboration, e-learning, wikis on 2008-08-08 and saved by75 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Winning hearts is more important than winning minds in my experience with educators and I use every tool in the web 2.0 toolbox to get there. I want to share some of my favorite “conversational lubricants” and the things I say before and after people see them.

(Please add your own situations and links!)

Tags: kevinhoneycutt, khoneycutt, conversational_lubricants, change, education, web, 2.0 on 2008-07-31 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Universal Design for Learning calls for ...

* Multiple means of representation, to give learners various ways of acquiring information and knowledge,
* Multiple means of action and expression, to provide learners alternatives for demonstrating what they know,
* Multiple means of engagement, to tap into learners' interests, offer appropriate challenges, and increase motivation.

Tags: udl, design, education, technology, learning, instructional, cast, differentiation, specialeducation on 2008-07-27 and saved by15 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Excellent resources for implementing differentiated instruction-quiz to assess your knowledge of differentiation, and many tools for managing diferentiated instruction.

Tags: differentiatedinstruction, differentiation, resources, education, DI, curriculum, specialeducation, specialneeds on 2008-07-24 and saved by24 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Fantastic compilation of resources for web 2.0 and information fluency-blogs, wikis, tutorials, photo tools, evaluating databases, current events rubric and liks to many examples of teacher blogs and wikis.

Tags: web2.0, wiki, tools, wikis, resources, education, web, joycevalenza on 2008-07-24 and saved by53 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Learning How to Learn Assistive Technology
(one of my presentations)
"Toolbelt Theory" suggests that we must teach our students how to analyze tasks, the task-completion environment, their own skills and capabilities, an appropriate range of available tools… and let them begin to make their own decisions.

Tags: speedchange, education, tools, specialeducation, specialneeds, web2.0, UDL on 2008-07-24 and saved by6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Excellent special education blog with lots of great links to other resources.

Tags: speedchange, education, specialeducation on 2008-07-24 and saved by6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Award-winning site for teachers, parents and kids who are affected by LD--adds value to the learning process for special needs students.

Tags: sparktop, sparktop.org, students, education, specialeducation, specialneeds, LD on 2008-07-24 and saved by4 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Excellent example of blog and classroom uses in Kindergarten. Provides links to many really good Kdg./Gr. 1 classroom blogs. Maria Knee received an award from SIGMS for her exemplary classroom numbers project at NECC 2008.

Tags: mariaknee, Kindergarten, blog, education, web2.0, classroomblogs, elementary, classroom, blogging on 2008-07-21 and saved by43 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Open Education News is essentially a group blog. A number of individuals from the US, South Africa, and eventually other locations daily monitor the internet for news related to open education. We then aggregate these items and publish them individually with minor commentary. Occasionally we’ll publish bigger pieces of our own authorship; analyses and such. If you know of some open education news we should write about, contact David Wiley at david.wiley@gmail.com.

Tags: education, web2.0, blog, openeducation on 2008-07-17 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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inspiring blog site created by a young teacher, Jabiz Raisdana, to use with his students. Touching comments shared from his students when he was forced to resign due to a link from his professional blog to his personal blog which he agreed was inappropriate. "Due to a lapse in my judgment regarding material posted on my personal blog, my school has asked me to resign. I want you, all the new classrooms reading this blog from around the world, to know that I am agreeing to this decision without reservation, and I understand the steps taken by the school to protect its reputation." His students miss him.

Tags: blog, education, english, middleschool, middle_school on 2008-07-14 and saved by6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Personal blog post by Jeff Felix on his doctoral research about educational blogging. He completed his dissertation and has presented his research several places. Excellent research and conversations. PDF summary of his dissertation available for download.

Tags: research, education, jefffelix, EscondidoCA, edublogging, web2.0 on 2008-07-13 and saved by5 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Compilation of links to all of David Jakes' websites, wikis, blogs and new tools

Tags: wiki, web2.0, davidjakes, education, edtech, presentation, tools, teaching on 2008-07-11 and saved by35 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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