2010 Chicago Public Schools

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December 3, 2010

Tech Talk 2010

Two big shifts. One big problem.

Scott’s slides (pptx ppt)
Video: Bart Gets a Z (Part 1, Part 2)
Video: Teacher movie (and administrator movie!)
Video: BBC – Adventure
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Every educator should have a listening station

Scott’s slides (pptx ppt)
Caitlin (at the Extreme Biology blog)
Kathy Cassidy’s classroom blog (see also Dalton)
The Number Warrior
Teaching The Civil War With Technology
Richard Byrne
Larry Ferlazzo
RSS in Plain English
Google Reader
Blogs
Subject-specific blogs
Great blogs for busy administrators

Resources

Dangerously Irrelevant
CASTLE
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
NETS-A, NETS-T, NETS-S
NCTE 21st century literacies
Contact me if you’re interested in CASTLE’s technology surveys for students, parents, teachers, and administrators

Recommended reading

The Global Achievement Gap
Curriculum 21
Disrupting Class
Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
21st Century Skills (Bellanca & Brandt)
Here Comes Everybody
Everything is Miscellaneous
What Would Google Do?
Caught in the Middle [if rural]
Hollowing Out the Middle [if rural]
Cognitive Surplus
21st Century Skills (Trilling & Fadel)
Tough Choices or Tough Times
Blown to Bits
Everyware
Wikinomics
A Whole New Mind
Born Digital
Grown Up Digital
Growing Up Digital
and more…

Recommended viewing