Pedagogy for the 21st Century
What every 21st-century teacher needs to know.
Textbook rental on college campuses is here to stay. Barnes & Noble joins Chegg in this service.
Media used by teens grows to 53 hours a week.
Text messaging and reading ability.
More funding for education sought by White House.
Here’s some interesting reading for this week:
Great article about educational technology in Vermont Middle Schools. The article makes a cogent case for Middle School Education. Middle School teachers, do you agree with what professor Bishop says about the importance of Middle Schools?
Young chess champion learned chess on computers. It will be fascinating to see how [...]
Halloween is upon us. Did you see any memorable costumes at work or school today?
Here’s a roundup of the week’s interesting news and links:
A classroom uses wiki as a class learning tool.
Will your school qualify for funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
For those who twitter, how would you characterize yourself?
What will follow facebook?
Academic [...]
It was a shorter week for some educators, postal workers and bankers thanks to Columbus Day.
The boy with his multi-tool is back in school.
Edgar Allen Poe gets a proper funeral.
Netbooks for Milton.
Anyone going to upgrade?
Have a link to something that should be included here? Send it in!
This is the first weekly gathering. You will find useful links here to a variety of articles each week. Most of the time articles will be related to educational technology and classroom issues; sometimes they will not. I’m hoping to post sundry articles that will enlighten, tickle and inform.
Practical article provides 51 tips for saving [...]
