Month: August 2010

Useful graphic for introducing WP to newbies?

This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context.

Includes overview video

*NOT* a stalking site! Built for raising awareness about risk of inadvertent information sharing – uses geotag data from photos to show users location

Science Leadership Acadmy uses tech to enhance their core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation and reflection

Fascinating July 1945 article from Vannevar Bush which presages the internet

With persistent achievement gaps being exacerbated by the “summer learning loss,” some policymakers are wondering if summer holidays are too long.

"This edition of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is dedicated to exploring the breadth of designs, pedagogies and curricular innovations that are actually already being applied to teaching and learning in virtual worlds."

"If professors of educational leadership truly want to be the thought leaders and to be a part of any sort of school change process, they need to free themselves from the shackles of tradition. They need to stop publishing their high-quality, thoughtful work in journals that nobody who does the work of school leadership reads. They should make it a point to publish in open access journals; open access is not mutually exclusive from peer-reviewed."

"Using unique data about how a diverse group of young adults looks for and evaluates Web content, our paper makes contributions to existing literature by highlighting factors beyond site features in how users assess credibility." – schools and parents should be helping prevent these problems developing

"digital natives", in fact, appear to have a superficial understanding of the new technologies, use the new technologies for very limited and specific purposes, and have superficial information-seeking and analysis skills.

I Tweet, Therefore I Am

Makes interesting point that by choice of people to follow, teachers can differentiate their own continuous CPD