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February 3, 2010

District 112

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We are looking for guidance and information around-Next Steps for our Elementary Programs-What should we be planning and paying the most attention to in order to be “World Class”?  What advice would you have toward successfully leading our elementary schools down this path?  What do you know/think, that maybe we don’t, but should?

• “Exceptional, personalized learning”
• Some slides (pptx ppt)
• Middle school science blog
• Kathy Cassidy
• • Professional blog
  • Classroom blog (and students’ blogs)
  • Classroom web page
  • Primary math wiki (and other wikis)
  • YouTube
  • TeacherTube
  • Video: Telling the new story
  • K12 Online 2008 presentation
• Darren Kuropatwa: Web 2.0 in the Elementary Classroom
• Brian Crosby (see also links to students’ work)
• The Monster Project
• VoiceThread 4 Education wiki (see elementary areas)
• Podcasts – Elementary
• Moving Forward wiki (Blogs and Subject-Specific Blogs) & Google Reader
• Web2ThatWorks wiki (social media and Marzano)
• Video - Mastering low-level content
• Moving Forward wiki – Model Schools USA and International
• Sites that connect classrooms across the globe (see the comment area)
• CASTLE’s 1:1 resources
• • 1to1 Schools blog
  • Iowa 1:1 Institute (I11I) (April 7, 2010)
  • Iowa 1to1 Network

Resources

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• CASTLE
• Dangerously Irrelevant

Recommended reading

• The Global Achievement Gap
• Curriculum 21
• 21st Century Skills
• Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
• Disrupting Class
• Caught in the Middle
• Hollowing Out the Middle
• Here Comes Everybody
• Everything is Miscellaneous
• What Would Google Do? 
• 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

• 21st century pedagogy
• Learning to change
• Did You Know? 4.0
• Current leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations
• Information Revolution
• Generation We
• Digital Kids @ Analog Schools
• Welcome to Your World
• We Think
• A Brave New World-Wide Web
• Networked Student
• A View of 21st Century Learners
• Kevin Kelly at TED
• Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF
• Sir Ken Robinson at TED
• Brewster Kahle at TED
• Free Range Learning
• The Human Network
• The Fourth Screen
• The Essay