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May 25, 2011

Two big shifts. One big problem.

• My slides (pptx)
• My landing page for educators and parents
• Video: Bart Gets a Z (Part 1, Part 2)
• Reverse assumptions

Every educator needs a listening station

• Video: RSS in Plain English
• Google Reader
• Subject-specific blogs
• Blogs
• Great blogs for busy administrators
• Want to read what I do?
• Caitlin (at the Extreme Biology blog)
• Kathy Cassidy’s classroom blog (see also Dalton)
• The Number Warrior
• Teaching The Civil War With Technology

Shock and awe [if you do this, let me know how it went!]

• Signs for end of continuum
• List of technologies (pdf docx)
• Facilitator questions
• 3 different color index cards per person, appropriate amounts of masking tape, and a fork

The future of learning (and teaching)

• My slides (pptx)

Resources

• Dangerously Irrelevant
• Mind Dump
• CASTLE
• Recommended reading
• Recommended viewing
• Other resources
• Contact me if you’re interested in CASTLE’s technology surveys for students, parents, teachers, and administrators
• Sites that connect classrooms across the globe
• Model U.S. schools
• Bernajean Porter’s technology and learning spectrum

Be sure you know about

• Iowa 1:1 Institute
• 1:1 Laptop Schools Ning
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• NETS-A, NETS-T, NETS-S
• NCTE 21st century literacies