Teachers 2.0
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How the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wages war on public schools TL;DR of what the USCoC did:
- Pick a catchy, inflammatory title for your title.
- Use an unreliable source for your data.
- MISQUOTE said data.
- Fail at graphics.
It gets worse. Click that link and read the darned thing.
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This presentation on iPads could use more slides. Would anyone like to help? (Current settings allow anyone to edit.)
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“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.” -
15 iPad Skills Every Teacher and Student should Have ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning -
Creative Commons Infographic: Licenses Explained – Technology Enhanced Learning Blog -
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My Growing Concerns About Mainstream Education Blogs I’m typically quiet. Why? Well, for starters, it usually invites a host of negative or critical comments on my own work, which engenders the type of “sour grapes” responses that make me look jealous of others’ success. This in turn can make it quite easy for anyone, close colleagues and acquaintances included, to conclude that Ben Rimes is a rather crotchety, pessimistic, jerk that would rather whine about others than rise to the occasion. I suppose that today, I’ll have to accept those likely outcomes, as this weekend a number of musings, thoughts, and ramblings came together for me. Here are a few of my growing concerns with the mainstream education blogging space.
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Google offers $99 Chromebook for teachers and students | Digital Trends I would describe Chromebooks as computers for people who only use computers to visit websites. When you consider that you can now use websites to edit graphics and video, they aren’t as limited as they seem to be at first glance.
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Doing a digital storytelling lesson? Here’s a free storyboard template.
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6 Things to do with an iOS device in the classroom.
Know of a 7th? Then why not add it? This document can be edited by anyone by going to this link.
We got a lot of views yesterday and more than one contribution, but we know there are more ideas out there! (If this is all that can be done with an iPad then they aren’t that good an investment.)
Please add your own ideas to our crowdsourced presentation, then share the link with others. It’s like a potluck dinner, but at the end of it we have awesome ideas for our classroom instead of a half-eaten Tupperware container of spaghetti!
