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"The gaming expert shares insights into why video games are such effective learning tools."

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"Google+ has strong potential application in formal learning environments"

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Interesting concept to harness the talents and knowledge of students in a 1:1 initiative. The description of the program centers around a course that students take for credit.

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"We asked them how they had learned all of these sophisticated maneuvers, and each time they told us they had taught themselves."

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How to use technology to enhance Socratic circles, even between two schools.

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While we shouldn't stop teaching children how to say "please" and "thank you," and bullies still exist in the face-to-face world, it is vital that we treat online safety and digital citizenship with the same amount of seriousness and attention. Students as young as 6 are joining social networks and conversing with other kids through online gaming and networks built around their favorite TV shows and movies as well as through products they see on TV.

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"It's all about Think Aloud, that age-old trick of simply narrating everything you are doing as the wiser, more experienced brain in the room. Narrate your decisions and your rationale and you will be teaching your students how to make good decisions online and off."

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As you collect resources, one question to ask yourself is how will you compile all of the links, articles and ideas you find so that they are easily accessible to both you and your students. This post offers up some tools to help you compile all those resources.

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Open source software provides alternatives to costly software products. This article offers some alternatives to current fee-based software titles.

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"there's more to effective online education than simply dropping a good face-to-face teacher into a virtual classroom. The tools and techniques for engaging students, delivering content, and building relationships should be deployed differently online."

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"Discover how K-12 students and teachers from across the country are using virtual technology to create enhancements to their learning experiences and new success in their lives. Check out the BIG Idea and How YOU Do It links on the right."

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"We are living in a time ripe for powerful educational change. We have the tools, the passion, the political will and -- most importantly -- the shared belief that we can and must do better to help our children become creative, capable competitors and contributors in the world. In this session, Milton Chen, senior fellow of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, paints a picture of what this transformation could look like. Jumping off from his hot-off-the-presses book, Education Nation, he outlines six leading edges of innovation in our schools, ranging from where and when children learn to who their teachers are. And he points to real-world examples of the pioneering work being done on these educational frontiers."

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"A professor of design and technology at Parsons The New School for Design talks about the value of games and the empowerment of play."

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"With one big idea after another -- from the Apple mouse to more patient-friendly emergency rooms -- the global consulting firm IDEO has built a reputation for innovative thinking."

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"You don't have to reinvent the wheel to bring project-based learning to your school. Educators from Maine have shared details about their administration, school culture, professional development, and curriculum -- materials you may adapt for your class, school, or school district. "

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Edutopia's "Big List" on Assessment. Contains plenty of links for further exploration of the topic.

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"Testing represents a commitment to high academic standards and school accountability. When the financial and emotional stakes associated with standardized tests are disproportionately high, this laudable goal becomes distorted."

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"If enough educators -- and noneducators -- realize there are serious flaws in how we evaluate our schools, maybe we can stop this absurdity."

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Rather than reaching deeper into their own pockets, creative educators suggest, follow these grassroots tips for getting free supplies

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Libraries are no longer stacks of books, but online collections of all kinds of today's media.

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